Poetry Past Readings
2023
- Robert Frost
- Richard Wilbur
- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
- Kenneth Rexroth
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- WWI through the poetry of Wilfred Owen
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Denise Levertov
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Poems by Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson, set to music by Bruno Faria
- Patrick Kavanagh
2022
- Seamus Heaney
- Alice Oswald
- Dan Tobin
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- John Keats Odes
- Danielle Legros Georges
- Robert Hass
- Andrew Marvell
- Elizabeth Alexander
- Christina Rossetti
- Wisława Szymborksa
- Stanley Kunitz
- Andrew Motion
- Keats: “The Eve of St. Agnes”
2021
- Nuala Ni Dhomnaill
- Louise Gluck
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Lucille Clifton
- Phillis Wheatley
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
2020
- Anna Akhmatova
- Joy Harjo
- W. B. Yeats
- William Wordsworth
- Alexander Pope
- William Stafford
- Rita Dove
- John Donne
- Joseph Harrison
2019
- Li-Young Lee
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Jorie Graham
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- George Herbert
- Susan Howe
- Patrick Kavanagh
- Bernard O’Donoghue
- Derek Walcott
- Dylan Thomas
- Ellen Bass
- Odysseus Elytis
2018
- Ted Kooser
- Percy Bysshe
- Derek Mahon
- Theodore Roethke
- Langston Hughes
- Margaret Atwood
- Danielle Legros Georges
- CP Cavafy
- Thylias Moss
2017
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Robert Pinsky
- Linda Gregerson
- William Carlos Williams
- A. E. Housman
2016
- Billy Collins
- Czeslaw Milosz
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Richard Wilbur
2014–2015
- Charles Wright
- Walt Whitman
- Mark Twain
- Wilfred Owen
- Siegfried Sasson
- W.B. Yeats
- Seamus Heaney
- Eavan Boland
- T. S. Eliot
- W.H. Auden
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Marianne Moore
- Robert Frost
2013–2014
- Robinson Jeffers
- Ted Hughes
- Kenneth Rexroth
- Robert Hayden
- Jane Kenyon
- Fernando Pessoa
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Gary Snyder
- Maxine Kumin
- Richard Blanco
2012–2013
- Natasha Trethewy
- Robert Creeley
- Thomas Hardy
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Seamus Heaney
- Geoffrey Hill
2011–2012
- Phillip Larkin
- Sylvia Plath
- Robert Lowell
- Lucille Clifton
- Emily Dickinson
- Charles Wright
- Louise Gluck
2009–2011
- T.S. Eliot
- W.S. Merwin
2008–2009
- John Updike
- Mary Oliver
- Wendell Berry
- Kay Ryan
2007–2008
- Wislawa Szymborska
- Charles Simic
- Charles Olsen
- Elizabeth Bishop
2006–2007
- Lord Byron
- Robert Burns
- W.B. Yeates
2005–2006
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Richard Wilbur
- Hart Crane
- Louise Bogen
2004–2005
- John Ciardi
- e e cummings
- Amy Lowell
2003–2004
- W.H. Auden
- Walt Whitman
2002–2003
- John Donne
- George Herbert
2001–2002
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Emily Dickinson
2000–2001
Wallace Stevens
1996–2000
- T.S. Eliot
- W.B. Yeats
- William Blake
- Shakespeare sonnets
- John Keats
- Jorie Graham
- Robert Frost
- Seamus Heaney
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Louise Gluck