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.

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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.

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Special thanks this year to our co-promotional sponsor, Academy of American Poets.