ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Poetry Outreach Center’s Annual Poetry Festival is supported by the following: President Vince Boudreau; Dee Dee Moleski, Executive Director, The Office of Institutional Advancement and Communications; Provost Tony Liss; City College’s Division of Humanities and the Arts Interim Dean, Renata K. Miller; Mikhal Dekel,  Head of English Department; MFA Director Michelle Valladares; Annika Luedke and Diana Powell Ward, the Office of Institutional Advancement and Communications; David Covington, Executive Director, Alumni Association;  The City College of New York Office of  Support Services, Taki in particular; Gregory Shanck; Axe-Houghton Foundation; The South Wind Foundation; The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation;  David and Harianne Wallenstein; Barry Wallenstein; Poets & Writers, Inc.

The festival acknowledges the help of many people, especially the judges of the High School contest; Bettina Lerner, Foreign Language; David Unger, Publishing Certificate Program; Danae Miranda; Gregory Crosby, Poetry Outreach Coordinator; Amanda Reiser, Administrative Assistant; Alysssa Yankwitt, Senior Mentor; Michelle Valladares, Director, MFA, for her terrific efforts; Mikhal Dekel, Chair of the English Department;  The Rifkind Center; Andrew Ratner, Interim Deputy Dean, School of Education; Yana for her  support, always; Taki, for working tirelessly on flyers & posters; and to Barry Wallenstein, for founding The Poetry Outreach Center. 

Special thanks this year to our co-promotional sponsors, The American Academy of Poets and Andrew Rich, Dean, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership.