For 59 years, the Wallace Stevens Poetry Program has brought the most important national and international poets to UConn. These include Nobel Prize winners, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Fellows, recipients of the National Book Award, The Griffin Prize, and numerous other accolades. The list of past poets is a truly astonishing legacy.
Guest poets stay at UConn for several days and interact with students. They give two readings of their work, one at UConn with UConn undergraduate and Early College Experience students, one at a high school with winners of a high school poetry contest sponsored by a partner organization in Hartford. The Program offers a remarkable experience for students by putting them on stage with a renowned writer.
Organized by the English Department, the Program is often co-sponsored by campus partners. In the last five years, these have included UConn’s Humanities Institute, the African American Cultural Center, The Rainbow Center, and the Program in Literary Translation.
UConn’s School of Fine Arts joined the Program in the last decade, with students in the Design Program and Print Studio creating limited-edition broadsides of the guest poet’s works.
Guest poets stay at UConn for several days and interact with students. They give two readings of their work, one at UConn with UConn undergraduate and Early College Experience students, one at a high school with winners of a high school poetry contest sponsored by a partner organization in Hartford. The Program offers a remarkable experience for students by putting them on stage with a renowned writer.
Organized by the English Department, the Program is often co-sponsored by campus partners. In the last five years, these have included UConn’s Humanities Institute, the African American Cultural Center, The Rainbow Center, and the Program in Literary Translation.
UConn’s School of Fine Arts joined the Program in the last decade, with students in the Design Program and Print Studio creating limited-edition broadsides of the guest poet’s works.