Feminist Poets: Past American Voices

Poetry

Interviewed by: Rebekah Presson, Michelle Boisseau, Albert Belg

Catalog Number(s): 20200327, 20190315, 20160318, 20150306, 20070302, 20030305, 20020306

Interview Year(s): 2002

his program pays tribute to the past American voices of feminist poets from the last century, who opened doors at publishing houses for the vast numbers of talented women writers today. Listen to excerpts from Pulitzer Prize winners Maxine Kumin (1925-2014) and Carolyn Kizer (1925-2014), as well as MacArthur “genius” fellow Adrienne Rich (1929-2012). We’ll also listen to the late Audre Lorde (1934-1992), who was the State Poet Laureate of New York when she died in 1992.