Previous poetry readings at the Folger

2010s

Paul Muldoon, 5/13/2013
Billy Collins, 4/29/2013
Forrest Gander, 3/28/2013
Mary Jo Bang, 2/11/2013
B.H. Fairchild, 2/11/2013
Kay Ryan, 12/3/2012
Mark Strand, 11/19/2012
Chris Andrews, 11/19/2012
Nikky Finney, 10/30/2012
Brian Turner, 10/30/2012
Eduardo C. Corral, 9/17/2012
Carl Phillips, 9/17/2012
Gary Snyder, 5/14/2012
Sharan Strange, 4/30/2012
Thomas Sayers Ellis, 4/30/2012
Tracy K. Smith, 4/30/2012
Major Jackson, 4/30/2012
John Keene, 4/30/2012
Natasha Trethewey, 4/30/2012
Tisa Bryant, 4/30/2012
Kevin Young, 4/30/2012
Eavan Boland, 3/5/2012
Aracelis Girmay, 12/5/2011
Mark Kraushaar, 11/8/2011
James Fenton, 11/8/2011
Robert Pinsky, 10/4/2011
Theo Dorgan, 9/19/2011
Paula Meehan, 9/19/2011
Robert Hass, 5/16/2011
Naomi Shihab Nye, 4/11/2011
Mary Karr, 3/21/2011
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, 3/21/2011
Naomi Ayala, 2/28/2011
J. Michael Martinez, 2/28/2011
Valerie Martínez, 2/28/2011
Yusef Komunyakaa, 2/9/2012
Kevin Young, 1/6/2011
Lucia Perillo, 12/14/2010
Vera Pavlova, 11/8/2010
Matthew Ladd, 10/19/2010
Rosanna Warren, 10/19/2010
Edward Hirsch, 9/28/2010
Richard Wilbur, 5/18/2010
W.S. Merwin, 5/3/2010
Jane Hirschfield, 4/8/2010
John Burnside, 3/1/2010
Patricia Smith, 3/1/2010
Kim Addonizio, 1/11/2010
Kyle Dargan, 1/11/2010

2000s

Lucie Brock-Broido, 12/14/2009
Afaa Michael Weaver, 11/3/2009
Juliana Spahr, 10/9/2009
Arthur Sze, 11/3/2009
Eammon Grennan, 5/18/2009
Rita Dove, 5/4/2009
A.B. Spellman, 4/6/2009
Michael Harper, 4/6/2009
Natasha Trethewey, 3/16/2009
Claudia Emerson, 3/16/2009
Marie Howe, 2/17/2009
Bob Hicok, 2/17/2009
Linda Pastan, 1/12/2009
Tracy K. Smith, 1/12/2009
Elizabeth Spires, 12/8/2008
Rae Armantrout, 11/10/2008
Frank Bidart, 11/10/2008
Terrance Hayes, 9/29/2008
Edwin Torres, 9/29/2008
Nick Flynn, 9/29/2008
Eileen Myles, 9/29/2008
Mary Kinzie, 9/28/2008
Lucille Clifton, 5/13/2008
Mark Doty, 4/24/2008
Tyehimba Jess, 4/7/2008
Quincy Troupe, 4/7/2008
Galway Kinnell, 3/24/2008
Ross Gay, 2/11/2008
Gerald Stern, 2/11/2008
Kay Ryan, 1/22/2008
Richard Howard, 12/10/2007
John Ashbery, 11/5/2007
David Rivard,10/27/2007
David Wojahn, 10/26/2007
Eavan Boland, 5/21/2007
Molly Peacock, 4/2/2007
Henri Cole, 4/2/2007
Phillis Levin, 4/2/2007
Derek Walcott, 3/12/2007
Terrance Hayes, 2/12/2007
Frank X. Walker, 2/12/2007
Srikanth Reddy, 1/29/2007
Tina Chang, 1/29/2007
Victoria Chang, 1/29/2007
Carolyn Forche, 12/11/2006
Tess Gallagher 1,1/20/2006
Charles Simic, 5/1/2006
Ted Kooser, 4/25/2006
Virgil Suarez, 3/13/2006
Adrian Castro, 3/13/2006
Sonia Sanchez, 2/13/2006
Eve Grubin, 1/24/2006
Kazim Ali, 1/24/2006
Katie Ford, 1/24/2006
Jorie Graham, 1/24/2006
Rosmarie Waldrop, 12/17/2005
Mark Halliday, 11/7/2005
Campbell McGrath, 11/7/2005
Sharon Olds, 10/25/2005
Elizabeth Alexander, 10/25/2005
Tony Hoagland, 9/23/2005
Anne Waldman, 5/16/2005
Philip Levine, 5/2/2005
Taha Muhammad Ali, 3/1/2005
Edward Hirsch, 3/1/2005
C. K. Williams, 2/14/2005
Peter Gizzi, 1/25/2005
Eileen Myles, 1/25/2005
Harryette Mullen, 12/6/2004
Jimmy Santiago Baca, 11/22/2004
Diane Middlebrook, 11/3/2004
Reginald Gibbons, 10/22/2004
Thomas Sayers Ellis, 9/21/2004
Vijay Seshadri, 9/21/2004
Fanny Howe, 9/21/2004
Percival Everett, 9/21/2004
Stanley Plumly, 5/3/2004
Brad Gooch, 4/16/2004
Diane Ackerman, 4/1/2004
Eammon Grennan, 3/1/2004
Vona Groarke, 3/1/2004
David McCann, 2/2/2004
Ko Un, 2/2/2004
Katia Kapovich, 1/13/2004
Rachel Blau Duplessis, 1/13/2004
Linda Gregson, 1/13/2004
Jean Valentine, 12/8/2003
Tribute to Henry Taylor, 9/23/2003
Cornelius Eady,10/24/2003
Pattiann Rodgers, 5/15/2003
George Schneeman, 3/15/2003
Robert Bly, 4/14/2003
Ron Padgett, 3/15/2003
Steve Clay, 3/15/2003
Paul Muldoon, 2/24/2003
Dissenting Practices, 2/20/2003
Linda Gregerson, 1/13/2003
Li-Young Lee, 12/9/2002
Naomi Shihab Nye, 11/13/2002
Nathalie Handal, 11/13/2002
Elmaz Abinader, 11/13/2002
Ellen Bryant Voigt, 10/21/2002
A. Van Jordan, 9/23/2002
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, 9/23/2002
Shara McCallum, 9/23/2002
W.D. Snodgrass, 5/18/2002
W.D. Snodgrass, 5/13/2002
Natasha Trethewey, 4/29/2002
Dolores Kendrick, 4/29/2002
Celebration of the Sonnet, 4/2/2002
Alice Notley, 3/18/2002
Yeats' Gallery, 2/25/2002
Kenneth Koch, 1/14/2002
Susan Howe, 12/11/2001
Clarence Major, 11/26/2001
Bruce Smith, 11/26/2001
David St. John, 10/29/2001
Galway Kinnell, 5/4/2001
Billy Collins, 4/10/2001
Carol Ann Duffy, 4/10/2001
Les Murray, 3/26/2001
Lucille Clifton, 2/26/2001
Marie Howe, 1/29/2001
Elizabeth Alexander, 1/29/2001
Joy Harjo, 12/11/2000
Afaa Michael Weaver, 11/20/2000
Ahmos Zu-Bolton, 11/20/2000
Rachel Hadas, 10/23/2000
Louise Gluck, 5/2/2000
Sandra Cisneros, 4/7/2000
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 3/13/2000
Arthur Sze, 2/28/2000
Vijay Seshadri, 2/28/2000
Toi Derricotte, 1/24/2000
Thomas Lux, 1/24/2000

1990s

Elizabeth Spires, 12/6/1999
Tracie Morris, 11/8/1999
Yusef Komunyakaa, 11/8/1999
Alan Shapiro, 10/19/1999
Lannon Fellows, 10/4/1999
Amy Hempel, 5/4/1999
Steve Stern, 5/4/1999
Cornelius Eady, 5/4/1999
Carolyn Forche, 5/4/1999
YMCA National Writer's Voice, 5/4/1999
Stanley Kunitz, 4/16/1999
Melanie Rae Thon, 4/8/1999
Michael Martone, 4/8/1999
Tom Sleigh, 3/23/1999
Sandra Gilbert, 3/23/1999
Donald Justice, 3/2/1999
Brenda Marie Osbey, 2/16/1999
C.D. Wright, 2/4/1999
Mark McMorris, 2/4/1999
Eavan Boland, 1/26/1999
Jane Mead, 1/26/1999
Mary Oliver, 12/8/1998
Maggie Nelson, 12/3/1998
Jennifer Barber, 12/3/1998
Mark Bibbins, 12/3/1998
Lawson Fusao Inada, 11/10/1998
Jennifer Nelson, 11/10/1998
Heather McHugh, 10/20/1998
W.S. Merwin, 10/6/1998
Michael Palmer, 10/1/1998
Peter Brook, 9/9/1998
Gary Snyder, 5/8/1998
Gary Snyder,5/6/1998
Robert Pinsky, 4/17/1998
Ann Lauterbach, 4/16/1998
Stanley Plumly, 3/19/1998
Lucille Clifton, 3/19/1998
Robert Creeley, 3/19/1998
Denise Levertov, 3/19/1998
Dava Sobel, 3/11/1998
Richard Wilbur, 2/26/1998
James Tate, 2/24/1998
Brenda Hillman, 2/24/1998
DJ Renegade, 2/16/1998
Reuben Jackson, 1/27/1998
Al Young, 1/27/1998
Mary Karr, 12/7/1997
Reetika Vazarani, 11/18/1997
Zoe Anglesey, 11/18/1997
Charles Wright, 11/13/1997 An audio recording of one of Charles Wright's
Jay Parini, 11/13/1997
Frank Bidart, 10/21/1997
Leslie Scalapino, 10/16/1997
Mark Rudman, 10/16/1997
Rafael Campo, 9/18/1997
Marilyn Hacker, 9/18/1997
George Plimpton, 6/12/1997
Christopher Buckley, 6/12/1997
Nuala Ni Dhomhniall, 5/6/1997
Eilean Ni Chuilleanan, 5/6/1997
Gwendolyn Brooks, 4/4/1997
Kamau Brathwaite, 3/25/1997
Lannon Fellows, 2/24/1997
John Ashbery, 2/4/1997
Anne Carson, 2/4/1997
Michael Ondaatje, 1/14/1997
Anthony Hecht, 12/10/1996
Patricia Smith, 11/19/1996
Jesus Papoleto Melendez, 11/12/1996
Pedro Pietri, 11/12/1996
Jesus Melindez, 11/12/1996
Jorie Graham, 10/29/1996
Bei Dao, 5/7/1996
Derek Walcott, 4/26/1996
Anne Carson, 2/27/1996
Christopher Merrill, 2/27/1996
Henri Cole, 2/22/1996
Lucie Brock-Broido, 2/17/1996
Jay Wright, 1/23/1996
Peter Sacks, 12/12/1995
Patricia Smith, 11/14/1995
Paul Beatty, 11/14/1995
Laurie Anderson, 10/31/1995
E. Ethelbert Miller, 10/24/1995
Adrienne Rich, 10/10/1995
Octavio Paz, 5/25/1995
Sharon Olds, 5/12/1995
W. S. Merwin, 4/20/1995
Paul Muldoon, 3/7/1995
Rosanna Warren, 3/7/1995
Robert Creeley, 2/14/1995
Linda Pastan, 2/14/1995
Cyrus Cassells, 1/25/1995
Carolyn Forche, 1/24/1995
Hayden Carruth, 1994
Jorie Graham, 12/13/1994
Jane Miller, 11/17/1994
Mark Doty, 11/17/1994
Spalding Gray, 11/16/1994
Cornelius Eady, 11/15/1994
R.H.W. Dillard, 10/25/1994
Lucille Clifton< 5/17/1994
Rose Styron, 5/5/1994
George Plimpton, 5/5/1994
Robert Hass, 4/8/1994
Czeslaw Milosz, 4/8/1994
Olga Broumas, 3/29/1994
Killarney Clary, 3/3/1994
Agha Shahid Ali, 3/3/1994
Sheryl St. Germain, 2/22/1994
Galway Kinnell, 2/8/1994
Peter Reading, 1/25/1994
Rita Dove, 1/20/1994
Frank Bidart, 12/9/1993
Kenneth Carroll, 11/16/1993
Wanda Coleman, 11/16/1993
John Frederick Nims, 10/21/1993
Denise Levertov, 9/21/1993
Adrienne Rich, 5/4/1993
Octavio Paz, 4/15/1993
Alice Quinn, 3/2/1993
Charles Simic, 3/2/1993
Louise Gluck, 3/2/1993
Beth Joselow, 2/9/1993
E. Ethelbert Miller, 2/9/1993
William Matthews, 1/21/1993
Maxine Kumin, 12/8/1992
Martin Espada, 11/17/1992
Robert Creeley, 11/17/1992
Marilyn Waniek (aka Marilyn Nelson), 11/17/1992
Cynthia Macdonald, 10/22/1992
John Updike, 4/6/1992
Fred Chappell, 3/30/1992
Richard Tillinghast, 3/30/1992
Olga Broumas, 3/8/1992
Carolyn Forche, 3/2/1992
Jane Kenyon, 2/3/1992
Jean Nordhaus, 2/3/1992
Anne Becker, 1/13/1992
Ai, 1/13/1992
Mona Van Duyn, 1991
Julie Agoos, 1991
Charles Wright, 12/9/1991
Gibbons Ruark, 11/25/1991
Eammon Grennan, 11/25/1991
Les Murray, 11/12/1991
Brendan Galvin, 10/28/1991
Miroslav Holub, 10/15/1991
Belle Waring, 5/13/1991
Donald Justice, 4/15/1991
Seamus Heaney, 4/7/1991
Li-Young Lee, 3/11/1991
David Ignatow, 3/11/1991
Ntozake Shange, 2/19/1991
Jessica Hagedorn, 2/19/1991
Gregory Orr, 1/28/1991
Edward Kleinschmidt, 1/28/1991
Linda Pastan, 1/14/1991
Jean Valentine, 12/10/1990
Thomas Lux, 11/19/1990
Jorie Graham, 11/19/1990
Toi Derricotte, 11/19/1990
Anthony Hecht, 10/26/1990
Dave Smith, 10/22/1990
Roland Flint, 10/22/1990
Sonia Sanchez, 9/17/1990
Molly Peacock, 6/30/1990
Minnie Bruce Pratt, 6/30/1990
Adam Zagajewski, 4/2/1990
Bernice Reagon, 3/2/1990
June Jordan, 3/2/1990
Jane Shore, 2/5/1990
Carol Muske, 2/5/1990
Bruce Weigl, 1/22/1990
John Balaban, 1/22/1990

1980s

Josephine Jacobsen, 12/12/1989
Jean Valentine, 12/12/1989
Saul Bellow, 12/1/1989
Henry Taylor, 11/13/1989
Michael Collier, 11/13/1989
Peter Sacks, 4/12/1989
Yehuda Amichai, 3/15/1989
Philip Levine, 2/27/1989
Thomas McGrath, 1/31/1989
Reed Whittemore, 1/19/1989
Roland Flint, 1/19/1989
Eilean Ni Chuilleanan, 1/18/1989
Marilyn Hacker, 12/14/1988
Marge Piercy, 10/24/1988
Octavio Paz, 10/18/1988
Yehuda Amichai, 9/29/1988
Octavio Paz, 9/29/1988
Derek Walcott, 9/29/1988
Les Murray, 9/29/1988
Peter Sacks, 9/29/1988
Jeffery Harrison, 5/6/1988
Irina Ratushinskay, 4/4/1988
Linda Pastan, 3/29/1988
Myra Sklarew, 3/29/1988
John Ashbery, 2/19/1988
Patricia Willis, 1/15/1988
June Jordan, 11/18/1987
Anthony Hecht, 10/22/1987
Stanley Kunitz, 5/12/1987
Galway Kinnell, 4/9/1987
Katha Pollitt, 3/9/1987
Laura Jensen, 3/9/1987
Stanley Plumly, 2/10/1987
C. K. Williams, 2/10/1987
Cynthia Macdonald, 12/12/1986
Katherine Zadravec, 12/11/1986
Frank Dorn, 12/11/1986
James Merrill, 11/18/1986
Diane Burns, 10/30/1986
Gregory Tate, 10/30/1986
Joseph Brodsky, 10/21/1986
Michael Harper, 4/22/1986
Rita Dove, 4/22/1986
Tomas Transtromer, 4/1/1986
William Pritchard, 3/3/1986
Nicholas Christopher, 2/18/1986
Jeffery Harrison, 2/18/1986
Robert Hass, 2/18/1986
Anthony Hecht, 1/13/1986
Amy Clampitt, 1/12/1986
Jorie Graham, 11/19/1985
Lucille Clifton, 11/19/1985
W.D. Snodgrass, 10/15/1985
Donald Hall, 10/15/1985
Seamus Heaney, 5/3/1985
Denis Johnson, 4/2/1985
Elizabeth Spires, 4/2/1985
Edward Hirsch, 3/4/1985
Gjertrud Schnackenberg, 3/4/1985
Mary Oliver, 2/4/1985
Sharon Olds, 12/10/1984
Sandra Esteves, 10/30/1984
Rikki Lights, 10/30/1984
Robert Pinsky, 10/24/1984
Alison Lurie, 10/12/1984
Shelby Hearon, 10/12/1984
May Swenson, 10/2/1984
Reed Whittemore, 5/9/1984
Jordan Smith, 5/8/1984
Douglas Crase, 5/8/1984
Charles Simic, 4/2/1984
Ellen Bryant Voigt, 4/2/1984
Sonia Sanchez, 2/6/1984
Jean Valentine, 12/12/1983
Josephine Jacobsen, 12/9/1983
Roland Flint, 12/6/1983
W.S. Merwin, 11/16/1983
James Dickey, 10/30/1983
Garth Tate, 10/4/1983
Kimiko Hahn, 10/4/1983
Ivan Lalic, 9/7/1983
Denise Levertov, 5/9/1983
Jean Valentine, 4/18/1983
Ursula LeGuin, 3/21/1983
Samuel Hazo, 12/3/1982
Frederick Morgan, 10/18/1982
Myra Sklarew, 9/20/1982
Veno Taufer, 5/17/1982
Jerome Rothenberg, 5/11/1982
Richard Wilbur, 4/22/1982
Sterling Brown, 3/9/1982
Tess Gallagher, 2/1/1982
Steve Orlen, 1/4/1982
Susan Wood, 1/4/1982
Carole Oles, 12/7/1981
Jane Flanders, 12/7/1981
Pamela Stewart, 11/17/1981
Carolyn Forche, 11/17/1981
Fay Chiang, 10/6/1981
Peter Harris, 10/6/1981
Howard Nemerov, 9/21/1981
Eilean Ni Chuilleanan, 9/21/1981
Charles Simic, 5/2/1981
Carolyn Kizer, 4/30-5/2/1981
Josephine Miles, 4/13/1981
Albert Goldbarth, 3/31/1981
Dick Higgins, 3/2/1981
Frank Bidart, 2/10/1981
Louise Gluck, 1/5/1981
Thomas Lux, 12/1/1980
Robert Bly, 10/20/1980
David Antin, 6/2/1980
Ira Sadoff, 3/4/1980
Mark Strand, 2/25/1980
David McAleavey, 2/7/1980
Charles Wright, 2/5/1980
Audre Lorde, 1/21/1980
Olga Broumas, 1/11/1980

1970s

David St. John, 12/4/1979
Heather McHugh, 11/19/1979
W.S. Merwin, 11/16/1979
William Claire, 8/1979
Leslie Ullman, 5/29/1979
John Ashbery, 3/12/1979
James Wright, 3/8/1979
James Liddy, 2/6/1979
Gerald Stern, 12/11/1978
Erika Jong, 12/7/1978
Theodore Weiss, 11/6/1978
Marvin Bell, 10/17/1978
E. Ethelbert Miller, 10/9/1978
June Jordan, 10/9/1978
Murial Ruckheyser, 9/25/1978
John Pauker, 6/5/1978
Philip Levine, 5/30/1978
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 4/3/1978
Linda Pastan, 2/7/1978
Linda Sexton, 1/23/1978
Howard Moss, 1/9/1978
Mary Abbott, 1977
Alice Walker, 12/6/1977
Frederick Morgan, 12/6/1977
Ruth Whitman, 11/21/1977
Myra Sklarew, 11/10/1977
Barbara Guest, 7/1977
Maura Stanton, 5/2/1977
Daniel Berrigan, S.J., 4/4/1977
Charles David Wright, 3/31/1977
Jean Nordhaus, 3/24/1977
Allen Ginsberg, 3/7/1977
Robert Hayden, 1/21/1977
Reed Whittemore, 1/21/1977
James Dickey, 1/19/1977
Richard Eberhart, 1/18/1977
Josephine Jacobsen, 1/17/1977
May Miller, 1/17/1977
John Engels, 1/3/1977
Henry Taylor, 1/3/1977
William Meredith, 12/6/1976
Maxine Kumin, 12/6/1976
James Merrill, 11/8/1976
Marge Piercy, 10/18/1976
Ralph Robin, 5/24/1976
Rod Jellema, 5/24/1976
Roland Flint, 5/24/1976
Darcy Gottlieb, 4/8/1976
X.J. Kennedy, 4/5/1976
James Wright, 3/8/1976
Jodi Braxton, 2/2/1976
Grace Cavalieri, 2/2/1976
Ahmos Zu-Bolton, 2/2/1976
Clarence Major, 1/5/1976
Doris Grumbach, 1/5/1976
John Gardner, 12/1/1975
Josephine Jacobsen, 11/10/1975
Marilyn Hacker, 10/13/1975
Reed Whittemore, 9/25/1975
Katie Loucheim, 3/24/1975
Arthur Gregor, 3/10/1975
Charles David Wright, 3/10/1975
Wayne Alexander, 2/24/1975
Michael Lally, 2/24/1975
David Slavitt, 2/17/1975
Mona Van Duyn, 1/20/1975
R.H.W. Dillard, 1/6/1975
O.B. Hardison, 5/28/1974
Ann Stanford, 4/1974
James Dickey, 3/18/1974
Shirley Kaufman, 2/1/1974
Muriel Ruckheyser, 1/21/1974
Michael Harper, 4/2/1973
Peter Klappert, 3/12/1973
John Hawkes, 1/22/1973
Marin Sorescu, 5/17/1972
Samuel Hazo, 3/26/1972
Myra Sklarew, 3/26/1972
Keith Wilson, 3/14/1972
Holly Stevens, 2/27/1972
Frank Scott, 1/30/1972
Margaret Atwood, 1/30/1972
Richard Murphy, 3/17/1971
St. John Primus, 2/21/1971
William Stafford, 1/17/1971
George Garrett, 3/1/1970
Roger Hecht, 2/12/1970
John Pauker, 2/12/1970
Lucille Clifton, 2/8/1970