The Visiting Writers Series
Reading series sponsored by the English Department with additional support from the Mabel Groseclose Fund.
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The Walt Whitman Lecture
An annual reading by a prominent writer sponsored by the English Department with support from the Mabel Groseclose Fund and the Office of the President.
- 2008-2009 Charles Simic, Former U.S. Poet Laureate
- 2007-2008 Richard Wilbur, Former U.S. Poet Laureate
- 2005-2006 Galway Kinnell
- 2004-2005 Billy Collins, Former U.S. Poet Laureate
- 2003-2004 W.S Merwin
- 2002-2003: Derek Walcott, Nobel Laureate
- 2001-2002: Robert Pinsky
- 2000-2001: Adrienne Rich
- 1999-2000: Louise Gluck
- 1998-99: Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate
- 1997-98: Stanley Kunitz