Below is a list of dead poets and when they were read at our series. If you are an invited poet checking to see if someone has been read, we recommend using "Ctrl-F" and searching by the poet's name. Reminder that anyone not read in the last two years is fair game to read again.
Date Read | Poet |
Mar 9, 2025 | John Ashbery |
Mar 9, 2025 | Don Domanski |
Mar 9, 2025 | Osip Mandelstam |
Mar 9, 2025 | Jean Valentine |
Jan 12, 2025 | Roy Miki |
Jan 12, 2025 | Leonard Cohen |
Jan 12, 2025 | Dorothy Parker |
Jan 12, 2025 | Gwendolyn Brooks |
Nov 10, 2024 | Charles Simic |
Nov 10, 2024 | E.D. Blodgett |
Nov 10, 2024 | Kahlil Gibran |
Sep 8, 2024 | Lucille Clifton |
Sep 8, 2024 | Parveen Shakir |
Sep 8, 2024 | Dr. Refaat Alareer |
Sep 8, 2024 | Charles Tomlinson |
Jul 14, 2024 | Xi Xi |
Jul 14, 2024 | Judith Fitzgerald |
Jul 14, 2024 | Rebecca Elson |
Jul 14, 2024 | Lyn Hejinian |
May 12, 2024 | Phillis Wheatley |
May 12, 2024 | Sarojini Naidu |
May 12, 2024 | Louise Glück |
May 12, 2024 | Louis Dudek |
Mar 10, 2024 | Ikkyū Sōjun |
Mar 10, 2024 | Ian Ferrier |
Mar 10, 2024 | Siegfried Sassoon |
Jan 14, 2024 | Hiba Abu Nada |
Jan 14, 2024 | Walt Whitman |
Jan 14, 2024 | Charles Olson |
Jan 14, 2024 | Louise Gluck |
Nov 19, 2023 | Maurice Scully |
Nov 19, 2023 | Douglas Barbour |
Nov 19, 2023 | Gerda Mayer |
Nov 19, 2023 | T.S. Eliot |
Sep 10, 2023 | Nadia Anjuman |
Sep 10, 2023 | Jason Shinder |
Sep 10, 2023 | Derek Wallcot |
Sep 10, 2023 | Mina Loy |
Jul 9, 2023 | Lawrence Ferlenghetti |
Jul 9, 2023 | Faiz Ahmed Faiz |
Jul 9, 2023 | Eavan Boland |
Jul 9, 2023 | Marina Tsvetaeva |
May 14, 2023 | Forough Farrokhzad |
May 14, 2023 | José García Villa |
May 14, 2023 | Jaroslav Seifert |
Mar 12, 2023 | Edward Taylor Fletcher |
Mar 12, 2023 | Robin Blaser |
Mar 12, 2023 | Lee Maracle |
Mar 12, 2023 | Mark Aguhar |
Mar 12, 2023 | Charles Olson |
Jan 8, 2023 | Etel Adnan |
Jan 8, 2023 | Don Domanski |
Jan 8, 2023 | Steven Heighton |
Jan 8, 2023 | Phyllis Webb |
May 24, 2020 | Howard Moss |
Mar 15, 2020 | Forugh Farrokhzad |
Mar 15, 2019 | Jason Shinder |
Mar 15, 2019 | John McCrae |
Mar 15, 2020 | Charles Olson |
Jan 19, 2020 | Charles Bukowski |
Jan 19, 2020 | John Thompson |
Jan 19, 2020 | Basho |
Jan 19, 2020 | June Jordan |
Nov 17, 2019 | Anne Szumigalski |
Nov 17, 2019 | Leo Yerxa |
Nov 17, 2019 | Mary Oliver |
Nov 17, 2019 | Bronwen Wallace |
Sept 15, 2019 | Elizabeth Bishop |
Sept 15, 2019 | Wallace Stevens |
Sept 15, 2019 | Tony Hoagland |
Sept 15, 2019 | Carole Chambers |
Jul 21, 2019 | Emily Dickinson |
Jul 21, 2019 | Carl Leggo |
Jul 21, 2019 | Robert Duncan |
Jul 21, 2019 | Rafael Alberti |
May 26, 2019 | Lucie Brock-Broido |
May 26, 2019 | Maya Angelou |
May 26, 2019 | David McFadden |
May 26, 2019 | WS Merwin |
Mar 17, 2019 | Richard Wagamese |
Mar 17, 2019 | Sergei Yesenin |
Mar 17, 2019 | Gottfried Benn |
Mar 17, 2019 | Kate Barnes |
Jan 20, 2019 | Mark Strand |
Jan 20, 2019 | Roy Kiyooka |
Jan 20, 2019 | Sharron Proulx-Turner |
Jan 20, 2019 | Rainer Maria Rilke |
Nov 18, 2018 | Richard Outram |
Nov 18, 2018 | Gwen MacEwen |
Nov 18, 2018 | Audre Lorde |
Nov 18, 2018 | June Jordan |
Sep 16, 2018 | Derek Walcott |
Sep 16, 2018 | Pablo Neruda |
Sep 16, 2018 | Reinaldo Arenas |
Sep 16, 2018 | Sei Shonagon |
Jul 8, 2018 | Theodore Roethke |
Jul 8, 2018 | Louis MacNeice |
Jul 8, 2018 | John Ashbery |
Jul 8, 2018 | Jim Carroll |
May 6, 2018 | Vera Manuel |
May 6, 2018 | Gord Downie |
May 6, 2018 | Michael Bullock |
May 6, 2018 | Madho Lal Hussain |
Mar 11, 2018 | Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990) |
Mar 11, 2018 | Zen Master Ryokan |
Mar 11, 2018 | Chief Dan George |
Mar 11, 2018 | Peter Trower |
Jan 14, 2018 | Czesław Miłosz |
Jan 14, 2018 | Helene Rosenthal |
Jan 14, 2018 | Richard Brautigan |
Jan 14, 2018 | Don Coles |
Nov 12, 2017 | Richard Wilbur |
Nov 12, 2017 | Lucille Clifton |
Nov 12, 2017 | Connie Fife |
Nov 12, 2017 | Sylvia Plath |
Nov 12, 2017 | James Welch |
Sep 10, 2017 | Paul Valéry |
Sep 10, 2017 | Elise Partridge |
Sep 10, 2017 | Kabir |
Sep 10, 2017 | Jamie Reid |
Sep 10, 2017 | Peter Culley |
Jul 9, 2017 | Carl Sandburg |
Jul 9, 2017 | Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen |
Jul 9, 2017 | bpNichol |
Jul 9, 2017 | Miriam Waddington |
Jul 9, 2017 | James Tate |
May 14, 2017 | M. Vasalis |
May 14, 2017 | James Wright |
May 14, 2017 | Anne Sexton |
May 14, 2017 | Kenneth Koch |
May 14, 2017 | Daniel Jones |
Mar 12, 2017 | Robert Browning |
Mar 12, 2017 | Elizabeth Bishop |
Mar 12, 2017 | Leonard Cohen |
Mar 12, 2017 | Georg Heym |
Mar 12, 2017 | Jim Harrison |
Jan 8, 2017 | Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite |
Jan 8, 2017 | Egill Skallagrímsson |
Jan 8, 2017 | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
Jan 8, 2017 | Charles Baudelaire |
Nov 13, 2016 | Pat Lowther |
Nov 13, 2016 | Dylan Thomas |
Nov 13, 2016 | Josephine Miles |
Nov 13, 2016 | Aloysius Bertrand |
Sep 25, 2016 | Sveva Caetani |
Sep 25, 2016 | James Schuyler |
Sep 25, 2016 | Jamie Reid |
Sep 11, 2016 | Rumi |
Sep 11, 2016 | John Asfour |
Sep 11, 2016 | Hafez |
Sep 11, 2016 | Mahmoud Darwish |
Sep 11, 2016 | Nizar Qabanni |
Jul 10, 2016 | H.D. |
Jul 10, 2016 | CD Wright |
Jul 10, 2016 | Gwendolyn Brooks |
Jul 10, 2016 | Christopher Smart |
Jul 10, 2016 | Weldon Kees |
May 8, 2016 | Robert Kroetsch |
May 8, 2016 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
May 8, 2016 | Francisco Ruiz Udiel |
May 8, 2016 | Claude McKay |
May 8, 2016 | Dorothy Livesay |
Mar 13, 2016 | Andrew Marvell |
Mar 13, 2016 | Pauline Johnson |
Mar 13, 2016 | Oscar Wilde |
Mar 13, 2016 | Langston Hughes |
Jan 10, 2016 | Robert Creeley |
Jan 10, 2016 | C.K. Williams |
Jan 10, 2016 | Sakutaro Hariwara |
Jan 10, 2016 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Nov 8, 2015 | Dan Pagis |
Nov 8, 2015 | Earle Birney |
Nov 8, 2015 | Edgar Allen Poe |
Sep 27, 2015 | John Updike |
Sep 27, 2015 | Maya Angelou |
Sep 27, 2015 | PK Page |
Sep 13, 2015 | Philip Levine |
Sep 13, 2015 | Tomas Tranströmer |
Sep 13, 2015 | Don Marquis |
Sep 13, 2015 | Milton Acorn |
Jul 12, 2015 | Lauris Edmond |
Jul 12, 2015 | Robert Lowell |
Jul 12, 2015 | ee cummings |
Jul 12, 2015 | John Keats |
Jul 12, 2015 | PK Page |
May 10, 2015 | Frances Horovitz |
May 10, 2015 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
May 10, 2015 | Lorraine Vernon |
May 10, 2015 | Grace Paley |
May 10, 2015 | Maxine Kumin |
Mar 8, 2015 | Simin Behbahani |
Mar 8, 2015 | Marianne Moore |
Mar 8, 2015 | Audre Lorde |
Mar 8, 2015 | Lorine Niedecker |
Jan 11, 2015 | Edith Sitwell |
Jan 11, 2015 | Galway Kinnell |
Jan 11, 2015 | Isaac Rosenberg |
Jan 11, 2015 | Philip Larkin |
Jan 11, 2015 | Catullus |
Nov 9, 2014 | Keith Douglas |
Nov 9, 2014 | Wilfred Owen |
Nov 9, 2014 | Siegfried Sassoon |
Nov 9, 2014 | Denise Levertov |
Sep 14, 2014 | Celia Dropkin |
Sep 14, 2014 | Gertrude Stein |
Sep 14, 2014 | Don Bailey |
Sep 14, 2014 | Hayden Carruth |
Sep 14, 2014 | Zbigniew Herbert |
Jul 13, 2014 | Norman MacCaig |
Jul 13, 2014 | George Whipple |
Jul 13, 2014 | Rainer Maria Rilke |
Jul 13, 2014 | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Jul 13, 2014 | Hart Crane |
May 11, 2014 | Louis Aragon |
May 11, 2014 | William Shakespeare |
May 11, 2014 | Allen Ginsberg |
May 11, 2014 | Rachel Korn |
May 11, 2014 | James Dickey |
Mar 9, 2014 | N/A |
Mar 9, 2014 | Rosario Castellanos |
Mar 9, 2014 | Anne Marriott |
Mar 9, 2014 | Seamus Heaney |
Mar 9, 2014 | Lew Welch |
Jan 12, 2014 | Max Jacob |
Jan 12, 2014 | D.H. Lawrence |
Jan 12, 2014 | T.S. Eliot |
Nov 10, 2013 | William Wordsworth |
Nov 10, 2013 | Medley of War Poets |
Nov 10, 2013 | Anna Świrszczyńska |
Nov 10, 2013 | John Donne |
Nov 10, 2013 | Kofi Awoonor |
Sep 8, 2013 | John Berryman |
Sep 8, 2013 | William Matthews |
Sep 8, 2013 | Thomas Merton |
Sep 8, 2013 | Malcolm Lowry |
Sep 8, 2013 | Anne Hebert |
Jul 14, 2013 | Ingeborg Bachman |
Jul 14, 2013 | Gerrit Achterberg |
Jul 14, 2013 | Yehuda Amichai |
Jul 14, 2013 | Yasunari Kawabata |
May 19, 2013 | Robert Frost |
May 19, 2013 | Frank O'Hara |
May 19, 2013 | May Sarton |
May 19, 2013 | Rumi |
Mar 10, 2013 | Marina Tsvetaeva |
Mar 10, 2013 | Jane Kenyon |
Mar 10, 2013 | Jack Gilbert |
Mar 10, 2013 | PK Page |
Jan 13, 2013 | Adrienne Rich |
Jan 13, 2013 | Kenneth Rexroth |
Jan 13, 2013 | Anna Akhmatova |
Jan 13, 2013 | Elizabeth Bishop |
Nov 11, 2012 | Robin Blaser |
Nov 11, 2012 | Glyn Hughes |
Nov 11, 2012 | Robert Hayden |
Nov 11, 2012 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Nov 11, 2012 | Roy Kiyooka |
Sep 9, 2012 | W.H. Auden |
Sep 9, 2012 | Emily Dickinson |
Sep 9, 2012 | Federico García Lorca |
Sep 9, 2012 | Randall Jarrell |
Sep 9, 2012 | Arthur Rimbaud |
Jul 8, 2012 | Wisława Szymborska |
Jul 8, 2012 | Octavio Paz |
Jul 8, 2012 | Bronwen Wallace |
Jul 8, 2012 | Ted Hughes |
Jul 8, 2012 | Alden Nowlan |
May 13, 2012 | Loren Eiseley |
May 13, 2012 | David Lerner |
May 13, 2012 | John Updike |
May 13, 2012 | Hanshan |
May 13, 2012 | Larry Levis |
Mar 11, 2012 | Irving Layton |
Mar 11, 2012 | Irving Layton |
Mar 11, 2012 | Irving Layton |
Mar 11, 2012 | Irving Layton |
Mar 11, 2012 | Irving Layton |
Mar 11, 2012 | Irving Layton |
Mar 11, 2012 | Irving Layton |
Mar 11, 2012 | Irving Layton |
Mar 11, 2012 | Irving Layton |
Jan 8, 2012 | Thomas Hardy |
Jan 8, 2012 | Christina Rossetti |
Jan 8, 2012 | Jack Spicer |
Jan 8, 2012 | Edward Thomas |
Jan 8, 2012 | Stevie Smith |
Nov 10, 2011 | Arthur Hugh Clough |
Nov 10, 2011 | Muriel Rukeyser |
Nov 10, 2011 | Frank Stanford |
Nov 10, 2011 | César Vallejo |
Nov 10, 2011 | Ronald Johnson |
Jan 24, 2010 | Edwin Muir |
Jan 24, 2010 | Nazim Hikmet |
Jan 24, 2010 | Al Purdy |
Jan 24, 2010 | R.S. Thomas |
Jan 24, 2010 | Charles Bruce |
Oct 18, 2009 | Gwendolyn MacEwen |
Oct 18, 2009 | John Keats |
Oct 18, 2009 | William Carlos Williams |
Oct 18, 2009 | Francis Ponge |
Oct 18, 2009 | George Trakl |
Feb 15, 2008 | Robinson Jeffers |
Feb 15, 2008 | Sylvia Plath |
Feb 15, 2008 | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Feb 15, 2008 | Pablo Neruda |
Feb 15, 2008 | Gwendolyn MacEwen |
Oct 12, 2007 | William Stafford |
Oct 12, 2007 | William Butler Yeats |
Oct 12, 2007 | Raymond Carver |
Oct 12, 2007 | Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau |
Oct 12, 2007 | Denise Levertov |
May 25, 2007 | W.S. Graham |
May 25, 2007 | John Newlove |
May 25, 2007 | Bronwen Wallace |
May 25, 2007 | George Johnston |
May 25, 2007 | Irving Layton |