Klinkhart Hall Arts Center is pleased to continue the tradition established by Festival founder Paul Muldoon of featuring distinguished poets to read, talk about their work, and conduct poetry workshops, all free to the public.
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Anne Waldman is an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement, and has been connected to the Beat movement and the second generation of the New York School. She has published over forty books of poetry. -
Billy Collins is perhaps the best know poet in the US. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry, former US poet Laureate, distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York and Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Winter Park Institute of Rollins College. -
Poet, lyricist, librettist, visual artist and professor, Dora Malech is the author of four collections of poetry. -
Ellen Bass was born in Philadelphia and grew up in New Jersey. She received a BA from Goucher College and an MA in creative writing from Boston University, where she studied with Anne Sexton. -
Erica Jong is a celebrated poet, novelist & essayist with over twenty-five published books that have been influential all over the world. Her most popular novel, Fear of Flying, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2013. -
Ukrainian-American poet, critic, translator and currently professor at Princeton University. -
Celebrated author of eight novels and founder of BOOKTHEWRITER, a New York City based service that offers "Pop-Up Book Groups" where readers can discuss books with their authors. -
Sharon Springs Poetry Festival 2022 “…seeing, reading, writing, translating are to me inextricable modes of being and thinking.” -
Sharon Springs Poetry Festival 2022 Novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist -
Poet and memoirist, author of Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, listed in Publishers Weekly, Top 10 Poetry Books of 2023 -
Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten books of poems, including, Foreign Bodies (2020); Brain Fever (2014), and Toxic Flora (2010), The narrow Road to the Interior (2006), and The Unbearable Heart (1996). -
Poet, teacher, and editor from Cherry Valley, New York, Maggie Millner is the author of Couplets: A Love Story. "An astounding debut." The New York Times Book Review -
Major Jackson is an American poet, professor and the author of five collections of poetry. -
Mark Doty is a renowned author of four memoirs and nine books of poetry, including Deep Lane, published in 2018. -
Michael Dickman earned a BA at the University of Oregon and received his MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. He now teaches poetry at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. -
Monica Youn is the author of three books of poetry, most recently BLACKACRE (Graywolf Press 2016), which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. -
Paul Muldoon is an international award-winning poet, professor of poetry, as well as an editor, critic, and translator. He is also the founder of the Sharon Springs Poetry Festival. -
Robert Pinsky is a poet, essayist, translator, teacher, and speaker. His first two terms as United States Poet Laureate were marked by such visible dynamism—and such national enthusiasm in response—that the Library of Congress appointed him to an unprecedented third term. -
Multi-award-winning poet, author, screenwriter, academic, translator, and journalist. -
Poet, literary critic, and Harvard University professor, Stephanie Burt is “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.” -
Sharon Springs Poetry Festival 2022 Poet, essayist, educator, and MacArthur Fellow -
Tracy K. Smith is the author of four collections of poetry, including "Life on Mars," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. In 2017 and again in 2018 she was named US Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress.