List of Poets Read

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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, 2025John Ashbery
Mar 9, 2025Don Domanski
Mar 9, 2025Osip Mandelstam
Mar 9, 2025Jean Valentine


Jan 12, 2025Roy Miki
Jan 12, 2025Leonard Cohen
Jan 12, 2025Dorothy Parker
Jan 12, 2025Gwendolyn Brooks


Nov 10, 2024Charles Simic
Nov 10, 2024E.D. Blodgett
Nov 10, 2024Kahlil Gibran


Sep 8, 2024Lucille Clifton
Sep 8, 2024Parveen Shakir
Sep 8, 2024Dr. Refaat Alareer
Sep 8, 2024Charles Tomlinson


Jul 14, 2024Xi Xi
Jul 14, 2024Judith Fitzgerald
Jul 14, 2024Rebecca Elson
Jul 14, 2024Lyn Hejinian


May 12, 2024Phillis Wheatley
May 12, 2024Sarojini Naidu
May 12, 2024Louise Glück
May 12, 2024Louis Dudek


Mar 10, 2024Ikkyū Sōjun
Mar 10, 2024Ian Ferrier
Mar 10, 2024Siegfried Sassoon


Jan 14, 2024Hiba Abu Nada
Jan 14, 2024Walt Whitman
Jan 14, 2024Charles Olson
Jan 14, 2024Louise Gluck


Nov 19, 2023Maurice Scully
Nov 19, 2023Douglas Barbour
Nov 19, 2023Gerda Mayer
Nov 19, 2023T.S. Eliot


Sep 10, 2023Nadia Anjuman
Sep 10, 2023Jason Shinder
Sep 10, 2023Derek Wallcot
Sep 10, 2023Mina Loy


Jul 9, 2023Lawrence Ferlenghetti
Jul 9, 2023Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Jul 9, 2023Eavan Boland
Jul 9, 2023Marina Tsvetaeva


May 14, 2023Forough Farrokhzad
May 14, 2023José García Villa
May 14, 2023Jaroslav Seifert


Mar 12, 2023Edward Taylor Fletcher
Mar 12, 2023Robin Blaser
Mar 12, 2023Lee Maracle
Mar 12, 2023Mark Aguhar
Mar 12, 2023Charles Olson


Jan 8, 2023Etel Adnan
Jan 8, 2023Don Domanski
Jan 8, 2023Steven Heighton
Jan 8, 2023Phyllis Webb


May 24, 2020Howard Moss


Mar 15, 2020Forugh Farrokhzad
Mar 15, 2019Jason Shinder
Mar 15, 2019John McCrae
Mar 15, 2020Charles Olson


Jan 19, 2020Charles Bukowski
Jan 19, 2020John Thompson
Jan 19, 2020Basho
Jan 19, 2020June Jordan


Nov 17, 2019Anne Szumigalski
Nov 17, 2019Leo Yerxa
Nov 17, 2019Mary Oliver
Nov 17, 2019Bronwen Wallace


Sept 15, 2019Elizabeth Bishop
Sept 15, 2019Wallace Stevens
Sept 15, 2019Tony Hoagland
Sept 15, 2019Carole Chambers


Jul 21, 2019Emily Dickinson
Jul 21, 2019Carl Leggo
Jul 21, 2019Robert Duncan
Jul 21, 2019Rafael Alberti


May 26, 2019Lucie Brock-Broido
May 26, 2019Maya Angelou
May 26, 2019David McFadden
May 26, 2019WS Merwin


Mar 17, 2019Richard Wagamese
Mar 17, 2019Sergei Yesenin
Mar 17, 2019Gottfried Benn
Mar 17, 2019Kate Barnes


Jan 20, 2019Mark Strand
Jan 20, 2019Roy Kiyooka
Jan 20, 2019Sharron Proulx-Turner
Jan 20, 2019Rainer Maria Rilke


Nov 18, 2018Richard Outram
Nov 18, 2018Gwen MacEwen
Nov 18, 2018Audre Lorde
Nov 18, 2018June Jordan


Sep 16, 2018Derek Walcott
Sep 16, 2018Pablo Neruda
Sep 16, 2018Reinaldo Arenas
Sep 16, 2018Sei Shonagon


Jul 8, 2018Theodore Roethke
Jul 8, 2018Louis MacNeice
Jul 8, 2018John Ashbery
Jul 8, 2018Jim Carroll


May 6, 2018Vera Manuel
May 6, 2018Gord Downie
May 6, 2018Michael Bullock
May 6, 2018Madho Lal Hussain


Mar 11, 2018Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990)
Mar 11, 2018Zen Master Ryokan
Mar 11, 2018Chief Dan George
Mar 11, 2018Peter Trower


Jan 14, 2018Czesław Miłosz
Jan 14, 2018Helene Rosenthal
Jan 14, 2018Richard Brautigan
Jan 14, 2018Don Coles


Nov 12, 2017Richard Wilbur
Nov 12, 2017Lucille Clifton
Nov 12, 2017Connie Fife
Nov 12, 2017Sylvia Plath
Nov 12, 2017James Welch


Sep 10, 2017Paul Valéry
Sep 10, 2017Elise Partridge
Sep 10, 2017Kabir
Sep 10, 2017Jamie Reid
Sep 10, 2017Peter Culley


Jul 9, 2017Carl Sandburg
Jul 9, 2017Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Jul 9, 2017bpNichol
Jul 9, 2017Miriam Waddington
Jul 9, 2017James Tate


May 14, 2017M. Vasalis
May 14, 2017James Wright
May 14, 2017Anne Sexton
May 14, 2017Kenneth Koch
May 14, 2017Daniel Jones


Mar 12, 2017Robert Browning
Mar 12, 2017Elizabeth Bishop
Mar 12, 2017Leonard Cohen
Mar 12, 2017Georg Heym
Mar 12, 2017Jim Harrison


Jan 8, 2017Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite
Jan 8, 2017Egill Skallagrímsson
Jan 8, 2017Alfred Lord Tennyson
Jan 8, 2017Charles Baudelaire


Nov 13, 2016Pat Lowther
Nov 13, 2016Dylan Thomas
Nov 13, 2016Josephine Miles
Nov 13, 2016Aloysius Bertrand


Sep 25, 2016Sveva Caetani
Sep 25, 2016James Schuyler
Sep 25, 2016Jamie Reid


Sep 11, 2016Rumi
Sep 11, 2016John Asfour
Sep 11, 2016Hafez
Sep 11, 2016Mahmoud Darwish
Sep 11, 2016Nizar Qabanni


Jul 10, 2016H.D.
Jul 10, 2016CD Wright
Jul 10, 2016Gwendolyn Brooks
Jul 10, 2016Christopher Smart
Jul 10, 2016Weldon Kees


May 8, 2016Robert Kroetsch
May 8, 2016Elizabeth Barrett Browning
May 8, 2016Francisco Ruiz Udiel
May 8, 2016Claude McKay
May 8, 2016Dorothy Livesay


Mar 13, 2016Andrew Marvell
Mar 13, 2016Pauline Johnson
Mar 13, 2016Oscar Wilde
Mar 13, 2016Langston Hughes


Jan 10, 2016Robert Creeley
Jan 10, 2016C.K. Williams
Jan 10, 2016Sakutaro Hariwara
Jan 10, 2016Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Nov 8, 2015Dan Pagis
Nov 8, 2015Earle Birney
Nov 8, 2015Edgar Allen Poe


Sep 27, 2015John Updike
Sep 27, 2015Maya Angelou
Sep 27, 2015PK Page


Sep 13, 2015Philip Levine
Sep 13, 2015Tomas Tranströmer
Sep 13, 2015Don Marquis
Sep 13, 2015Milton Acorn


Jul 12, 2015Lauris Edmond
Jul 12, 2015Robert Lowell
Jul 12, 2015ee cummings
Jul 12, 2015John Keats
Jul 12, 2015PK Page


May 10, 2015Frances Horovitz
May 10, 2015Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
May 10, 2015Lorraine Vernon
May 10, 2015Grace Paley
May 10, 2015Maxine Kumin


Mar 8, 2015Simin Behbahani
Mar 8, 2015Marianne Moore
Mar 8, 2015Audre Lorde
Mar 8, 2015Lorine Niedecker


Jan 11, 2015Edith Sitwell
Jan 11, 2015Galway Kinnell
Jan 11, 2015Isaac Rosenberg
Jan 11, 2015Philip Larkin
Jan 11, 2015Catullus


Nov 9, 2014Keith Douglas
Nov 9, 2014Wilfred Owen
Nov 9, 2014Siegfried Sassoon
Nov 9, 2014Denise Levertov


Sep 14, 2014Celia Dropkin
Sep 14, 2014Gertrude Stein
Sep 14, 2014Don Bailey
Sep 14, 2014Hayden Carruth
Sep 14, 2014Zbigniew Herbert


Jul 13, 2014Norman MacCaig
Jul 13, 2014George Whipple
Jul 13, 2014Rainer Maria Rilke
Jul 13, 2014Edna St. Vincent Millay
Jul 13, 2014Hart Crane


May 11, 2014Louis Aragon
May 11, 2014William Shakespeare
May 11, 2014Allen Ginsberg
May 11, 2014Rachel Korn
May 11, 2014James Dickey


Mar 9, 2014N/A
Mar 9, 2014Rosario Castellanos
Mar 9, 2014Anne Marriott
Mar 9, 2014Seamus Heaney
Mar 9, 2014Lew Welch


Jan 12, 2014Max Jacob
Jan 12, 2014D.H. Lawrence
Jan 12, 2014T.S. Eliot


Nov 10, 2013William Wordsworth
Nov 10, 2013Medley of War Poets
Nov 10, 2013Anna Świrszczyńska
Nov 10, 2013John Donne
Nov 10, 2013Kofi Awoonor


Sep 8, 2013John Berryman
Sep 8, 2013William Matthews
Sep 8, 2013Thomas Merton
Sep 8, 2013Malcolm Lowry
Sep 8, 2013Anne Hebert


Jul 14, 2013Ingeborg Bachman
Jul 14, 2013Gerrit Achterberg
Jul 14, 2013Yehuda Amichai
Jul 14, 2013Yasunari Kawabata


May 19, 2013Robert Frost
May 19, 2013Frank O'Hara
May 19, 2013May Sarton
May 19, 2013Rumi


Mar 10, 2013Marina Tsvetaeva
Mar 10, 2013Jane Kenyon
Mar 10, 2013Jack Gilbert
Mar 10, 2013PK Page


Jan 13, 2013Adrienne Rich
Jan 13, 2013Kenneth Rexroth
Jan 13, 2013Anna Akhmatova
Jan 13, 2013Elizabeth Bishop


Nov 11, 2012Robin Blaser
Nov 11, 2012Glyn Hughes
Nov 11, 2012Robert Hayden
Nov 11, 2012Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nov 11, 2012Roy Kiyooka


Sep 9, 2012W.H. Auden
Sep 9, 2012Emily Dickinson
Sep 9, 2012Federico García Lorca
Sep 9, 2012Randall Jarrell
Sep 9, 2012Arthur Rimbaud


Jul 8, 2012Wisława Szymborska
Jul 8, 2012Octavio Paz
Jul 8, 2012Bronwen Wallace
Jul 8, 2012Ted Hughes
Jul 8, 2012Alden Nowlan


May 13, 2012Loren Eiseley
May 13, 2012David Lerner
May 13, 2012John Updike
May 13, 2012Hanshan
May 13, 2012Larry Levis


Mar 11, 2012Irving Layton
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Jan 8, 2012Thomas Hardy
Jan 8, 2012Christina Rossetti
Jan 8, 2012Jack Spicer
Jan 8, 2012Edward Thomas
Jan 8, 2012Stevie Smith


Nov 10, 2011Arthur Hugh Clough
Nov 10, 2011Muriel Rukeyser
Nov 10, 2011Frank Stanford
Nov 10, 2011César Vallejo
Nov 10, 2011Ronald Johnson


Jan 24, 2010Edwin Muir
Jan 24, 2010Nazim Hikmet
Jan 24, 2010Al Purdy
Jan 24, 2010R.S. Thomas
Jan 24, 2010Charles Bruce


Oct 18, 2009Gwendolyn MacEwen
Oct 18, 2009John Keats
Oct 18, 2009William Carlos Williams
Oct 18, 2009Francis Ponge
Oct 18, 2009George Trakl


Feb 15, 2008Robinson Jeffers
Feb 15, 2008Sylvia Plath
Feb 15, 2008Gerard Manley Hopkins
Feb 15, 2008Pablo Neruda
Feb 15, 2008Gwendolyn MacEwen


Oct 12, 2007William Stafford
Oct 12, 2007William Butler Yeats
Oct 12, 2007Raymond Carver
Oct 12, 2007Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
Oct 12, 2007Denise Levertov


May 25, 2007W.S. Graham
May 25, 2007John Newlove
May 25, 2007Bronwen Wallace
May 25, 2007George Johnston
May 25, 2007Irving Layton
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