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 (PDF), contact Marie Dalton-Meyer at 860.677.4787 ext 130 or dalton-meyerm@hillstead.org

Help keep the Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival alive for years to come! This renowned series showcases some of the most important voices of our time. While the Festival receives some funding from state and federal grants and from private foundations, the museum relies heavily on individual donations to keep this important program going year after year. Please make a contribution to help sustain Hill-Stead's Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival!

Summer Performance Series 2010
Seating, Admission, Food & More Festival Facts

Advertise in the 2010 Poetry Program! Download our advertising Rates and specs PDF or email poetry@hillstead.org for information / reservations. For Early Bird discount (–25%), reserve and pay by March 15, 2010. Standard reservation deadline April 15, 2010. Non-profits receive 15% discount (not to be combined with early bird discount). All camera-ready ads due no later than April 30, 2010.
See 2009 Poetry program cover.

Festival Chronology
Festival Slideshow
National Competition Winners 2004–2009

To request information about the summer 2010 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

Advertisers
Avon Old Farms School | www.avonoldfarms.com
Bradley, Foster & Sargent, Inc. | www.bfsinvest.com
Connecticut Poetry Society | www.ct-poetry-society.org
Duncaster | www.duncaster.org
The Farmington Inn | www.farmingtoninn.com
Farmington Miniature Golf & Ice Cream | www.farmingtonminiaturegolf.com
Farmington Bank | www.farmingtonbankct.com
Greater Hartford Arts Council | www.letsgoarts.org
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving | www.hfpg.org
Hartford Symphony Orchestra | www.hartfordsymphony.org
Manchester Community College | www.mcc.commnet.edu
Millrace Books | www.millracebookshop.com
Tunxis Community College | www.tunxis.commnet.edu
West Hartford Counseling Center | www.westhartfordcounselingcenter.com

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