CCNY Poetry Outreach Center
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Poetry Outreach Center's Annual Poetry Festival is supported by the following: President Vince Boudreau; Dee Dee Mozeleski, Senior Vice President The Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications, and External Relations; Provost Tony Liss; City College's Division of Humanities and the Arts, Dean, Renata K. Miller; Dan Gustafson, English Department Chair; MFA in Creative Writing Director Michelle Valladares; Annika Lüdke, Director, Foundations & Corporate Relations, and Kelly Sullivan, Development Coordinator, the Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications and External Relations, and The Foundation for City College; David Covington, Executive Director, Alumni Association; Moe Liu-D'Albero; The City College of New York Office of Support Services, Taki Petrochilos, in particular; Gregory Shanck; Axe-Houghton Foundation; Sue Guiney; J. Chester Johnson; Marvin Koenig; The Reiser Family; Rhöm Robert; Jay & Andrea Schachne; The South Wind Foundation; David and Harianne Wallenstein; Barry Wallenstein; Stephanie Yankwitt; and Poets & Writers, Inc.
The festival acknowledges the help of many people, especially judges of the high school contest; Outreach Mentors: Kay Poema and Ilka Scobie; Undergraduate Outreach Assistants: Briana Mercado, Mateo Garcia, Nafeeza Khanam, Cheyma Elybaba, and Jose Gonzalez; Alyssa Yankwitt, Director; Jennifer Buño, Deputy Director; Gregory Crosby, Deputy Director, High School Contest; Michelle Valladares, Director, MFA in Creative Writing; Dan Gustafson, Chair of the English Department; The Rifkind Center; Andrew Ratner, Dean, School of Education; Yana Joseph for her support, always; Jasmine Love; Taki Petrochilos, for working tirelessly on flyers & posters; Barry Wallenstein, for founding The Poetry Outreach Center; Pamela Laskin for her many years of service and dedication to running the Poetry Outreach Center & Festival.
Special thanks this year to our co-promotional sponsor, Academy of American Poets.
FEATURED GUEST POETS 1972-2025
L.S. Asekoff
Hadara Bar-Nadav
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
Pamela Laskin
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