CCNY Poetry Outreach Center
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Poetry Outreach Center’s Annual Poetry Festival is supported by the following: President Vince Boudreau; Dee Dee Mozeleski, Executive Director, The Office of Institutional Advancement and Communications; Provost Tony Liss; City College’s Division of Humanities and the Arts, Dean, Renata K. Miller; Elizabeth Mazzola, Chair of English Department; MFA Director Michelle Valladares; Annika Luedke (Director) and Kelly Sullivan, the Office of Institutional Advancement and Communications and External Relations, and The Foundation for City College; David Covington, Executive Director, Alumni Association; The City College of New York Office of Support Services, Taki Petrochilos in particular; Gregory Shanck; Axe-Houghton Foundation; The South Wind Foundation; The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; David and Harianne Wallenstein; Barry Wallenstein; and Poets & Writers, Inc.
The festival acknowledges the help of many people: Gregory Crosby, Poetry Outreach Coordinator; Amanda Reiser, Administrative Assistant; Alysssa Yankwitt, Development Coordinator & Chief Mentor; Michelle Valladares, Director, MFA, for her terrific efforts; Elizabeth Mazzola, Chair of the English Department; The American Academy of Poets; 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.
FEATURED GUEST POETS 1972-2022
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L.S. Asekoff
Amiri Baraka
Elana Bell
Ted Berrigan
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Gwendolyn Brooks
Claude Brown
Billy Collins
Nicole Cooley
Jane Cortez
Robert Creeley
Cornelius Eady
James Emanuel
Elaine Equi
Allen Ginsberg
Aracelis Girmay
David Groff
Marilyn Hacker
Kimiko Hahn
Donald Hall
Nathalie Handal
Michael Harper
Mikhail Horowitz
Richard Howard
David Ignatow
Colette Inez
Major Jackson
June Jordan
Galway Kinnell
Stanley Kunitz
Vasyl Makhno
William Matthews
Eve Merriam
Gloria Mindock
Stanley Moss
Marilyn Nelson
Joel Oppenheimer
Alicia Ostriker
William Packard
Grace Paley
Raymond Patterson
Molly Peacock
Marie Ponsot
Adrienne Rich
M.L. Rosenthal
Muriel Rukeyser
Sonia Sanchez
Grace Shulman
Charles Simic
Paul Simon
Louis Simpson
Tom Sleigh
Patricia Smith
Tracy K. Smith Richard
Tillinghast
Barry Wallenstein
Estha Weiner
Jacqueline Woodson
Yusef Komunyakaa