The University of Connecticut, with substantial financial support from The Hartford, has presented the Wallace Stevens Poetry Program annually since 1964, featuring the most important national and international poets of the last five decades.

Posters by James Baker

2019
Claudia Rankine

2018
Joy Harjo

2017
A.E. Stallings

2016
Carl Phillips

2015
Susan Stewart

2014
Paul Muldoon

2013
Susan Howe

2012
Kay Ryan

2011
August Kleinzahler

2010
Charles Simic

2009
Heather McHugh

2008
Alice Fulton

2007
Adam Zagajewski

2006
Gjertrud Schnackenberg

2005
Robert Hass

2004
Ellen Bryant Voigt

2003
Adrienne Rich

2002
C.K. Williams

2001
Yusuf Komunyakaa

2000
Mark Doty

1999
Frank Bidart

1998
Donald Hall

1997
Louise Glück

1996
Carolyn Forché

1995
Dave Smith

1994
Sharon Olds

1993
Amiri Baraka

1992
W.S. Merwin

1991
June Jordan

1990
Robert Bly

1989
Gary Snyder

1988
Stanley Kunitz

1987
Galway Kinnell

1986
Dennis Brutus

1985
Philip Levine

1984
John Ashbery

1983
Derek Walcott

1982
Seamus Heaney

1981
Anthony Hecht

1980
Denise Levertov

1979
James Merrill

1978
Elizabeth Bishop

1977
Richard Wilbur

1976
John Malcolm Brinnin

1975
Adrienne Rich

1974
Anne Sexton

1973
Daniel Berrigan

1972
Robert Duncan

1971
Louis Zukofsky

1970
Allen Ginsberg

1969
Stephen Spender

1968
John Berryman

1967
Robert Lowell

1966
John Crowe Ransom

1965
Richard Eberhart

1964
Marianne Moore