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