Sunken Garden Poetry

by Davis, Brad

• ISBN13: 9780819572912
• ISBN10: 0819572918
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-04
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

Since 1992, the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival has welcomed nationally acclaimed poets to the picturesque landscape of Hill-Stead Museum, a National Historic Landmark in Farmington, Connecticut. Reflecting the festival that has attracted thousands to this rolling country estate, the poems in this collection have been selected with a broad audience in mind. In the spirit of the festival's mission to nurture the art of poetry, the anthology features young and emerging poets alongside established poets, including Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Carolyn Forche, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Kumin, James Merrill, Marilyn Nelson, Grace Paley, and Richard Wilbur. This new anthology captures the exciting and unique relationship between a distinctive American museum and poetic expression. In addition to a rich selection of poetry, the book includes both an illustrated introduction providing a history of the festival and an appendix listing all festival dates, poets, and musicians for each year. "The Sunken Garden Poetry Festival is a little paradise for poetry." - Galway Kinnell

Table of Contents

1992

Hugh Ogden

Sue Ellen Thompson

Charles Darling

Marilyn Nelson

Pit Menousek Pinegar

Pam Nomura

Emily Holcombe

Steve Foley

Elizabeth Kincaid-Ehlers (Rivers Edge poets)

David Holdt

Susan Gimignani Lukas

Rennie McQuilkin

1993

James Merrill

Carole Stasiowski

Robert Cording

Norah Pollard

Bessy Reyna

1994

Richard Wilbur

Kate Rushin

Honor Moore

Martin Espada

Theodore Deppe

1995

Galway Kinnell

Cheryl Savageau

Jeffrey Harrison

Sue Ellen Thompson

Patricia Smith

Donald Hall

1996

Stanley Kunitz

Sharon Olds

Brendan Galvin

Marge Piercy

Marilyn Nelson

1997

Mark Doty

Patricia Smith

Dick Allen

Naomi Ayala

Billy Collins

1998

Carolyn Forche

Natasha Trethewey

Margaret Gibson

Leo Connellan

Hayden Carruth

Lucille Clifton

1999

Eamon Grennan

Gray Jacobik

Stephen Dunn

Joy Harjo

Billy Collins

2000

Philip Levine

Marie Howe

Thomas Lux

Susan Kinsolving

Zach Sussman

Martin Espada

2001

Sonia Sanchez

Rennie McQuilkin

Linda McCarriston

Edgar Gabriel Silex

Emily Madsen

Peter Schmitt

Doug Anderson

2002

Yusef Komunyakaa

Vivian Shipley

Wesley McNair

Marilyn Chin

Jennifer Steele

Steve Straight

2003

Maxine Kumin

Jack Agueros

Margaret Gibson

Tim Seibles

Tony Fusco (Sunken Garden Poetry Prize winner)

Wally Swist

2004

Grace Paley

Richard Blanco

Suzanne Cleary (Sunken Garden Poetry Prize winner)

Joan Joffe Hall

Martha Collins

Emily Ayer

Kate Rushin

2005

Gary Soto

Edwina Trentham

Brad Davis (Sunken Garden Poetry Prize winner)

Douglas Goetsch (Sunken Garden Poetry Prize runner-up)

Major Jackson

Courtney Davis

2006

Jane Hirshfield

Jim Daniels

Renee Ashley (Sunken Garden Poetry Prize winner)

John Surowiecki (Sunken Garden Poetry Prize runner-up)

Li-Young Lee

Olivia Ho-Shing

Norah Pollard

2008

Robert Pinsky

Theo Theofilos

Coleman Barks

Billy Collins

Patricia Fargnoli

Ilya Kaminsky

Paul Muldoon

* Sasha Debevec-McKenney

2009

Robert Hass

Brenda Hillman

Susanna Myserth

Baron Wormser

Martha Crouch

Kim Roberts (Sunken Garden Poetry Prize runner-up)

Marilyn Nelson (Cave Canem poets)

Lita Hooper

CK Williams

Don Thompson (Sunken Garden Poetry Prize winner)

2010

Galway Kinnell

Bessy Reyna

Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Jean Valentine

Ginny Connors (Sunken Garden Poetry Prize winner)

Kate Lebo (Sunken Garden Poetry Prize runner-up)

Kristin Rocha

Terrance Hayes

Victoria Chen

Taylor Mali

2011

Tony Hoagland

Pat Hale

Luisa Caycedo-Kimura (Sunken Garden Poetry Prize winner)

Ekiwah Adler-Belendez

Dick Allen

Elizabeth Thomas

Patricia Smith

Mark Doty

David Watts (Sunken Garden Poetry Prize runner-up)

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