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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