Welcome to our fourth issue!  This is the Proceedings of Adrienne Rich, the Fall, 2024 Senior Seminar in the Department of English Literatures & Writing. The seminar was taught by Dr. Alec Marsh, an expert in 20th century American poetry who has previously written on Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams; his most recent book is Adrienne Rich's Later Poetry: Raya Dunayevskaya and Marxist Humanism (Bloomsbury, 2024).

This issue was worked on by editors Marissa Candido, Sophie Stein, and Aspen Brawer.

The cover image is “Gabriel” (2025), a work of art by student Mina Choi.   It refers to Adrienne Rich’s poem, “Gabriel”  (1968), which begins:

There are no angels yet
here comes an angel one
shut-off the dark
side of the moon turning to me
and saying: I am the plumed
serpent the beast
with fangs of fire and a gentle
heart