The relationship didn’t last, and in a 1977 interview, Rich would say she “regretted airing her grievances with Sontag in print.” This anecdote, like so many others within Hilary Holladay’s capacious ...

However, Rich didn’t linger in my imagination quite the way that Sexton and Plath did. They were mythic women, too brilliant and troubled for this world. Rich wasn’t contained by biography or curated ...

During an Interview with Hilary Holladay, the Sun asked why her subject had to be Adrienne Rich and not another poet or another woman writer. Her answer: “I wanted to write about someone who at an ...

Two decades into the 21st century, we're circling back to the vitality and innovations of postwar American poets, particularly women, as in Maggie Doherty's "The Equivalents," which conjures the ...

In the title poem of her 1963 collection “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,” Adrienne Rich wrote that “Time is male,” and that “our crime” was “only to cast too bold a shadow/or smash the mold straight ...

Guest: Hilary Holladay is a biographer, novelist, poet, and scholar of modern and contemporary American literature. She is a former director of the Jack and Stella Kerouac Center for American Studies ...