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In this section you will find a list of current and past Presenters and Subjects, which are alphabetized below by the Lecturer's last name. Click on the names or photos for more information about the poets, including a sample poem, biography, and timeline.
A joint project of Poets House and the Poetry Society of America, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Elizabeth Alexander on Gwendolyn Brooks

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Eavan Boland on W.B. Yeats

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Mark Doty on E. E. Cummings

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Martín Espada on Pablo Neruda

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Eamon Grennan on Emily Dickinson

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Edward Hirsch on Federico García Lorca

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Jane Hirshfield on Basho

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Hettie Jones on Beat Poets

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Donna Masini on June Jordan

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Pablo Medina on Octavio Paz

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E. Ethelbert Miller on Langston Hughes

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Paul Muldoon on Robert Frost

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Carol Muske-Dukes on Sylvia Plath

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Ron Padgett on Kenneth Koch

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Ron Padgett on Frank O'Hara

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Molly Peacock on Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Carl Phillips on Walt Whitman

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Robert Pinsky on Robert Frost

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Robert Pinsky on William Carlos Williams

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Kay Ryan on Emily Dickinson

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Mary Jo Salter on Marianne Moore

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Vijay Seshadri on Elizabeth Bishop

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Susan Stewart on Anna Akhmatova