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Midwest Poets Series, sponsored by The Center for Arts & Letters, enhances the literary and intellectual lives of Rockhurst University, the Kansas City community and the surrounding region. Our events are free and in person and open to all. Support for the Midwest Poets Series is provided by the Missori Arts Council and Center for Arts and Letters.

 

Jameelah Lang, Ph.D., Rockhurst University assistant teaching professor of English, serves as the 2023-2024 director for the Midwest Poets Series.

For information about this series or other Rockhurst University cultural events, call The Center for Arts and Letters at 816-501-4607 or email kristy.peterson@rockhurst.edu.

Rockhurst University Midwest Poets Series Past Readings:

2022-2023

Naomi Shihab Nye

Erin Adair-Hodges 

Courtney Faye Taylor (pictured)













 

2021-2022

Hadara Bar-Nadav (pictured)

Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Sally Wen Mao

Vievee Francis









 

2020-2021

Patricia Cleary Miller

Jenny Molberg

Bridget Lowe (pictured)

Nicole Sealey

Ross Gay















 

2010-2019

David Baker (pictured)

Donika Kelly

Ada Limón

Ilya Kaminsky (cancelled due to pandemic)

Robert Stewart

Marcus Jackson

Katheyn Nuernberger

Nikky Finney

Marcus Wicker

B.H. Fairchild

Monica Young

Patricia Smith

Edward Hirsch

Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill

Jerico Brown

Charles Harper Webb

Robin Robertson

Claudia Rankine

Rodney Jones

Ellen Bass

Dave Smith

Alice Friman

Dunya Mikhail

Vijay Seshadri

Adam Zagajewski

Dave Smith

Janice Harrington

William Trowbridge

Tracy Smith

Valzhyna Mort

Mark Doty

Les Murray

Tracy Smith

Valzhyna Mort

Mark Doty

Les Murray

Robert Bly

Michelle Boisseau

Walter Bargen

Aliki Barnstone

Brian Turner

Gertrud Schackenberg

Kay Ryan

David Clewell

2000-2009

Robert Pinsky (pictured)

Mary Jo Bang

Beth Ann Fennelly

Ray Young Bear

Charles Simic

Mia Leonin

Debra Marquart

B.H. Fairchild

Charles Simic

Mia Leonin

Debra Marquart

Willis Barnstone

Kim Addonizio

Major Jackson

Natasha Trethewey

Ingrid de Kok

Heather McHugh

Donald Hall

Kevin Young

Andrei Codrescu

Margo Livesey

Laura Kasischke

Paul Muldoon

Thomas Kennedy

Terrance Hayes

Marilyn Kalley

Linda Pastan

David Baker

Cornelius Eady

Albert Goldbarth

Janet Burroway

Billy Collins

Quincy Troupe

Paulette Jiles

Dennis Finnell

Maxine Kumin

Daniel Woodrell

John Balaban

Marilyn Hacker

Robin Becker

Dorianne Laux

1990-1999

W. S. Merwin (pictured)

Marilyn Nelson

Tim Seibles

Henry Taylor

Mark Doty

David Lyhman

Colleen J McElroy

C.D. Wright

Yehuda Amichai

L-Young Lee

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Joy Williams

Amiri Baraka

Stephen Dunn

Carolyn Kizer

Amy Bloom

Yusef Komunyakaa

Ellen Bryant Voight

Paule Marshall

Rosellen Brown

Eavan Boland

Alberto Rios

William Matthews

Luisa Valenzuela

Gerald Stern

Lorrie Moore

Sven Birkerts

Jane Hirshfield

Philip Levine

Adrian C. Louis

Sharold Olds

Donald Revell

Galway Kinnell

Amy Gerstler

Sandra Cisneros

Charles Simic

Grace Paley

Derek Walcott

Jane Smiley

Jimmy Santiago Baca

1983-1989

Joseph Langland (pictured)

Jorie Graham

Conger Beasley

Carolyn Forche

Tess Gallagher

Dan Jaffe

Charles Baxter

Linda Gregg

Madeline DeFrees

Donald Justice

James McKinley

James Tate

Padma Perera

Paul Zimmer

Richard Whodes

Kelly Cherry

Phillip Lopate

William Stafford

Gary Gilner

David Ray

Janet Kauffman

Judith Minty

Donald Finkel and Constance Urdang

Marvin Bell

Robley Wilson Jr.

Miller Williams

Andela Jackson

Diane Wakoski

John Knoepfle

Mona Van Duyn

Jim Barnes

G.S. Sharat Chandra

 

Upcoming Events


Midwest Poets Series 40th Anniversary Celebration and Readings
February 8, 2024 - 7:00pm
Record Bar, 1520 Grand Blvd., KCMO

Center for Arts & Letters

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  • Visiting Scholar Lecture Series
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