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SUNKEN GARDEN POETRY FESTIVAL

Festival Chronology

1992

Hugh Ogden http://www.trincoll.edu/~ogden/
Sue Ellen Thompson
Charles Darling
Marilyn Nelson www.soulmountainretreat.com
Pit Pinegar www.pitpinegar.com
Pan Nomura
Emily Holcombe
Steve Foley
The River’s Edge Poets
Rennie McQuilkin www.antrimhousebooks.com

Marilyn Nelson

 

1993

James Merrill
Carole Stasiowski
Robert Cording
Norah Christianson
Fresh Voices: Competition Winning High School Poets
Bessy Reyna www.bessyreyna.com

 


Bessy Reyna


1994

Richard Wilbur www.english.uiuc.edu/ maps/ poets/s_z/wilbur/wilbur.htm
Kate Rushin
Honor Moore www.honormoore.com
Martín Espada www.martinespada.net
Fresh Voices: Competition Winning High School Poets
Theodore Deppe

 

Richard Wilbur

1995

Galway Kinnell
www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets
/g_l/kinnell/kinnell.htm

Cheryl Savageau
Jeffrey Harrison
Sue Ellen Thompson
Patricia Smith www.english.uiuc.edu/maps
/poets/s_z/p_smith/p_smith.htm

Fresh Voices: Competition Winning High School Poets
Donald Hall www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/264

Galway Kinnell and Susan Kinsolving

1996

Stanley Kunitz www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/
poets/g_l/kunitz/kunitz.htm

Sharon Olds
www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olds/olds.htm
Brendan Galvin
Marge Piercy www.margepiercy.com
Fresh Voices: Competition Winning High School Poets
Marilyn Nelson www.soulmountainretreat.com

 

 


Stanley Kunitz

1997

Mark Doty http://markdoty.org
Fresh Voices: Competition Winning High School Poets
Patricia Smith www.english.uiuc.edu/map
s/poets /s_z/p_smith/p_smith.htm

Dick Allen
Naomi Ayala
Billy Collins www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/278


Mark Doty

1998

Carolyn Forché http://mason.gmu.edu/~cforchem/
Natasha Trethewey
Margaret Gibson
Leo Connellan
Fresh Voices: Competition Winning High School Poets
Hayden Carruth
www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/232
Lucille Clifton www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets
/a_f/clifton/clifton.htm

 

 

Carolyn Forché

1999

Eamon Grennan /www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/824
Gray Jacobik www.grayjacobik.com
Stephen Dunn
Joy Harjo www.joyharjo.org
Fresh Voices: Competition Winning High School Poets
Billy Collins www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/278

 
Steve Straight and Billy Collins

2000

Philip Levine www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets
/g_l/levine/levine.htm

Marie Howe www.nortonpoets.com/howem.htm
Thomas Lux www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/115
Susan Kinsolving www.susankinsolving.com
Fresh Voices: Competition Winning High School Poets
Martín Espada www.martinespada.net
Donald Hall: Benefit Reading

 

 

Philip Levine

2001

Sonia Sanchez www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/276
Rennie McQuilkin www.antrimhousebooks.com
Linda McCarriston
Edgar Gabriel Silex
Fresh Voices: Competition Winning High School Poets
Doug Anderson
Pam Nomura & Pit Pinegar: Benefit Reading

 


Sonia Sanchez

2002

Yusef Komunyakaa www.english.uiuc.edu/maps
/poets /g_l/komunyakaa/komunyakaa.htm

Vivian Shipley
Wesley McNair http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/~wmcnair/
Marilyn Chin www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/
poets/a_f/chin/chin.htm

Fresh Voices: Competition Winning High School Poets
Steve Straight

 

 

Yusef Komunyakaa

2003

Maxine Kumin www.maxinekumin.com
Jack Agüeros
Margaret Gibson
Tim Seibles www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/
bios.php?name=tseibles

Fresh Voices: Competition Winning High School Poets
Wally Swist

 

 

Maxine Kumin

2004

Grace Paley
Richard Blanco www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/ bios.php?name=rblanco
Suzanne Cleary, First Place, Sunken Garden Competition
Joan Joffe Hall www.davidmorse.com
/joanjhall.html

Martha Collins www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/273
Fresh Voices: Competition Winning High School Poets
Kate Rushin

 


Grace Paley and Kate Rushin

2005

Gary Soto www.garysoto.com
Edwina Trentham www.antrimhousebooks.com
Sunken Garden Competition Winners: Brad Davis www.antrimhousebooks.com &
Douglas Goetsch www.janestreet.com
Major Jackson cavecanempoets.org
Fresh Voices: Competition Winning High School Poets
Cortney Davis www.cortneydavis.com

 

 


Gary Soto


2006

Jane Hirshfield www.barclayagency.com
Jim Daniels www.cmu.edu/universitypress
Sunken Garden Competition Winners: Renée Ashley & John Surowiecki
Li-Young Lee www.blueflowerarts.com
Fresh Voices: Competition Winning High School Poets
Norah Pollard www.antrimhousebooks.com

 


Jane Hirshfield

Photo Credits: The Hartford Courant, Pit Pinegar, Patty Swanson