Poem Present

The Poem Present series brings contemporary poets to campus for a public reading and a public lecture.

Past Poets

2024
Renee Gladman
Jeffrey Yang
Arda Collins

2023
Hai-Dang Phan
Dong Li
Annelyse Gelman

2022
Asiya Wadud
Shane McCrae
Joyelle McSweeney
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
C.S. Giscombe

2020
Douglas Kearney

2019
Julie Ezelle Patton
Layli Long Soldier

2016
CA Conrad
Elizabeth Willis

2012
Stephen Cushman
Anne Waldman

2011
Alice Notley
Allen Fisher
Ben Lerner
Brenda Hillman
Fred Moten

2010
Ales Steger
Ballet Mechanique
Erin Moure
Hedi Kaddour
Jeffrey Yang 
Jenna Osman
Majorie Welish
Rob Halpern
Susan Stewart

2009
Fanny Howe
Geoffrey O'Brien
Jennifer Moxley
John Koethe
Lisa Russ Spaar
Mary Ruefle
Pimone Triplett
Rae Armantrout

2008
August Kleinzahler
Donald Revell
Emily Wilson
Geraldine Monk and Alan Halsey
JH Prynne
Juliana Spahr