Jean Valentine

Biography

Jean Valentine is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965–2003 (Wesleyan, 2004), winner of the National Book Award. She received the Poetry Society of America???s Shelley Memorial Prize in 2000.

See Work

ESSAYS / Spring 2006

A Change of World: A Friendship

By Jean Valentine

I’ve known Adrienne Rich, in her work, since 1952, when I was eighteen. I was walking down Garden Street, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one day in my first weeks at Radcliffe College, when a kindly old gentleman spoke to me, and as we talked...

Autumn 2000

The Blue Dory, the Soul

By Jean Valentine