FRIENDS & ENEMIES OF WALLACE STEVENS

The Wallace Stevens Program

The English Department of the University of Connecticut at Storrs has presented this annual poetry reading and student poetry contest since 1964. The Hartford Financial Services Group donates the funds to support this series in memory of Wallace Stevens, their colleague and friend.

Beginning with Carolyn Forche's reading in 1996, the program has been presented in early April at both UConn's Storrs campus and at a venue in the city of Hartford. In recent years the Hartford reading has alternated between the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and the Classical Magnet School. The Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens help to organize and to promote the Hartford reading.

Wallace Stevens Poetry Program

Contact English Department at UConn for additional information.

Poets who have read for this series:

1964	Marianne Moore		1985	Philip Levine	2006	Gjertrud Schnackenberg
1965	Richard Eberhart		1986	Dennis Brutus	2007	Adam Zagajewski
1966	John Crowe Ransom		1987	Galway Kinnell	2008	Alice Fulton
1967	Robert Lowell		1988	Stanley Kunitz	2009	Heather McHugh
1968	John Berryman		1989	Gary Snyder	2010	Charles Simic
1969	Stephen Spender		1990	Robert Bly	2011	August Kleinzahler
1970	Allen Ginsberg		1991	June Jordon	2012	Kay Ryan
1971	Louis Zukofsky		1992	W.S. Merwin	2013	Susan Howe
1972	Robert Duncan		1993	Amiri Baraka	2014	Paul Muldoon
1973	Father Daniel Berrigan		1994	Sharon Olds	2015	Susan Stewart
1974	Anne Sexton		1995	Dave Smith	2016	Carl Phillips
1975	Adrienne Rich		1996	Carolyn Forche	2017	A. E. Stallings
1976	John Malcolm Brinnin		1997	Louise Gluck	2018	Joy Harjo
1977	Richard Wilbur		1998	Donald Hall	2019	Claudia Rankine
1978	Elizabeth Bishop		1999	Frank Bidart
1979	James Merrill		2000	Mark Doty
1980	Denise Levertov		2001	Yousef Komunyakaa
1981	Anthony Hecht		2002	C.K. Williams
1982	Seamus Heaney		2003	Adrienne Rich
1983	Derek Walcott		2004	Ellen Bryant Voigt
1984	John Ashberry		2005	Robert Hass