Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash

This festive and illuminating fall event brings to Hartford a renowned poet/critic to give a talk on a Stevens-related theme. Held at the Hartford Public Library, the program begins with music and a reception. Following the guest speaker’s presentation, there is a book-signing, birthday cake, and champagne!

Past speakers…

2025 - Peter Gizzi
2024 - Charles Bernstein
2023 - Anna Maria Hong
2022 - Simone White
2021 - Edward Hirsch
2020 - Alfred Corn with Karim Ahmed, Dennis Barone & Glen MacLeod
2019 - Langdon Hammer
2018 - Cole Swensen
2017 - Paul Mariani
2016 - Glen MacLeod
2015 - Lisa Goldfarb
2014 - Maureen McLane
2013 - Bonnie Costello
2012 - Jay Parini
2011 - Robert Pinsky
2010 - Joan Richardson
2009 - Marjorie Perloff
2008 - John Serio
2007 - James Longenbach
2006 - Lawrence Joseph
2005 - John Taggart
2004 - Eugene Gaddis
2003 - Susan Howe
2002 - Galway Kinnell
2001 - Mark Strand
2000 - Richard Howard
1999 - Helen Vendler
1998 - J.D. McClatchy
1997 - John Hollander
1996 - Dick Allen & John Crockett