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I'm Stephen Metcalfe, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, diving into the rec edition.

It's Wednesday, April 4th, 2012. On today's program,

the late Adrian Rich with Slate's own Megan O'Rourke, the jurisprudence of grizzly bears,

and finally, where have all the Woody Allen's gone? The disappearance of the neurotic.

Joining me today is Slate's film critic Dana Steven. Hey, Dana.

Hey, Stephen. And the reason I didn't start with Slate's deputy editor Julia Turner is Julia has been called out of the room on important business.

But we're joined for our first segment by Megan O'Rourke.

Megan Rourke is a poet, a critic, my first editor at Slate.

And a professor right now of, are you teaching poetry at Princeton at Princeton University?

And she joins us to talk about not only the poet, Adrienne Rich, but also your lovely remembrance of her essay about her.

Let me begin by just talking about her a tiny bit and correct me where I go wrong.

She began, as I understand it, and as I remember from reading her poetry when I was in grad school, and as an undergrad.

She began as a mistress of poetic form. She was a gifted traditionalist. She was chosen by W.H. Auden to be one of the Yale younger poets, which is a huge honor. And she was younger.

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