The Thatcher Hoffman Smith Spring Poetry Series is proud to have hosted major poets for 25 years.
Past poets include winners of National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, Guggenheim Fellows, Academy of American Poets Chancellors, and Poets Laureate of the U.S. or U.K.
Our interviews with some of the previous poets are linked below.
YEAR | POET NAME |
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2024 | Kimiko Hahn |
2023 | Jericho Brown & Pádraig Ó Tuama |
2022 | Naomi Shihab Nye |
2021 | Nikky Finney & Clemonce Heard |
2019 | Alberto Rios |
2018 | Chris Abani |
2017 | Simon Armitage * |
2016 | Marie Howe & Andrea Gibson |
2015 | Richard Blanco |
2014 | Tracy K. Smith * |
2013 | Terrance Hayes |
2012 | Claudia Emerson |
2011 | Carolyn Forché |
2010 | Natasha Trethewey * |
2009 | Charles Simic * |
2008 | Jimmy Santiago Baca |
2007 | Joy Harjo * |
2006 | Ted Kooser * |
2005 | Billy Collins * & Lucille Clifton |
2004 | Li Young Lee |
2003 | Naomi Shihab Nye |
2002 | Mark Doty |
2001 | Michael Ondaatje |
2000 | Jane Hirshfield |
1999 | Robert Pinsky * |
* denotes a Poet Laureate