Miss Adrienne Cecile Rich. Cambridge poet who graduated from Radcliffe in 1951, has been awarded a fellowship in creative writing, the Guggenheim Foundation announced yesterday.

Miss Rich, who won the Yale poetry award while an undergraduate, was the only woman listed among the nine recipients from the University scene. Both Richard P. Wilbur, assistant professor of English, and Vladimir Nabokov, visiting lecturer in Slavic and Comparative Literature, also received Guggenheim Awards for a year's work in creative writing.

Other recipients from the University were: John T. Dunlop, professor of Economics Howard W. Emmons, professor of Engineering Sciences, Elmer D. Merrill, Arnold Professor of Botany, Emeritus, Renato Poggioli, professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, John H. Welsh, associate professor of Zoology, and Ernest E. Williams, instructor in History.