Rich wove her life and work together with such purpose. So I felt I was being guided by her art and her life story. Was it difficult? Yes it was, because I didn’t want to read the poetry solely ...

She was 82. Rich, who had lived in Santa Cruz since the 1980s, died Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at her home. Her son, Pablo Conrad, says she died of complications from rheumatoid arthritis.