SUNKEN GARDEN POETRY FESTIVAL

Since 1992, audiences have enjoyed verse and music among the fragrant blooms of Hill-Stead’s Sunken Garden. This performance series has featured the likes of Billy Collins, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Kumin and Grace Paley. Festivities include a plein air café and bookstore and meet-the-poet opportunities.

To join the Live Poets Society, contact Marie Dalton-Meyer at 860.677.4787 ext 130 or dalton-meyerm@hillstead.org

Summer Performance Series 2009
Seating, Admission, Food & More Festival Facts

Festival Chronology
Festival Slideshow
National Competition Winners 2004–2008

To request information about the summer 2008 festival, email poetry@hillstead.org.

To join Hill-Stead’s poetry mailing list, contact Cynthia Cagenello: 860.677.4787 ext 111 or cagenelloc@hillstead.org.

Hill-Stead is deeply grateful to all supporters who made the Poetry Festival possible in 2009:

Lead Funding
Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism
Lincoln Financial Group
National Endowment for the Arts

Additional Funding
Aetna Foundation, Inc.
Elizabeth Carse Foundation, Bank of America, Trustee
Adolf & Virginia Dehn Foundations
The Ensworth Charitable Foundation
The Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb Memorial Charitable Trust
Live Poets Society members and Additional Contributors
George A. & Grace L. Long Foundation, Bank of America and Alan S. Parker, Co-Trustees

Sponsors
Beethoven Radio
Hartford Advocate
The Hartford Courant

Special Thanks
Mintz & Hoke Communications Group
for the design of Festival rack cards, posters and the program cover.

Poetry Links
Academy of American Poets www.poets.org
Antrim House www.antrimhousebooks.com
Association of Writers and Writing Programs www.awpwriter.org
Buttonwood Tree, Middletown, CT www.buttonwood.org
Cave Canem www.cavecanempoets.org
Common Ground Poetry Review www.cgreview.org
Connecticut Poetry Society www.ct-poetry-society.org
Connecticut Review www.ctstateu.edu/univrel/ctreview
Curbstone Press www.curbstone.org
Hudson Valley Writers’ Center www.writerscenter.org
IMPAC Young Writers Awards www.impacyoungwriters.com
National Public Radio www.npr.org, key words “Sunken Garden Poetry Festival.”
Poetry Daily www.poems.com
Poetry News www.poetrynewsonline.blogspot.com
Poetry Society of America www.poetrysociety.org
Poets House www.poetshouse.org
Smith College www.smith.edu/poetrycenter
Soul Mountain Retreat www.soulmountainretreat.com
Tupelo Press www.tupelopress.org