<P>Since 1992, the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival has welcomed nationally acclaimed poets to the picturesque landscape of Hill-Stead Museum, a National Historic Landmark in Farmington, Connecticut. Reflecting the festival that has attracted thousands to this rolling country estate, the poems in this collection have been selected with a broad audience in mind. In the spirit of the festival’s mission to nurture the art of poetry, the anthology features young and emerging poets alongside established poets, including Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Carolyn Forche, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Kumin, James Merrill, Marilyn Nelson, Grace Paley, and Richard Wilbur. This new anthology captures the exciting and unique relationship between a distinctive American museum and poetic expression. In addition to a rich selection of poetry, the book includes both an illustrated introduction providing a history of the festival and an appendix listing all festival dates, poets, and musicians for each year.</P><P>’The Sunken Garden Poetry Festival is a little paradise for poetry.’ – Galway Kinnell</P>
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<P>Foreword<BR>Editor’s Acknowledgments<BR>Introduction 1992<BR>Fingers — Hugh Ogden<BR>Remembering My Parent’s Sex Life — Sue Ellen Thompson<BR>In Certain Lights — Charles Darling<BR>Star-Fix — Marilyn Nelson<BR>Shamaal — Pit Menousek Pinegar<BR>Pam Nomura<BR>Praying in Marquand Chapel After Cancer Surgery — Emily Holcombe<BR>Angel — Steve Foley<BR>My Mother’s Closet — Elizabeth Kincaid-Ehlers<BR>Deer Crossing — David Holdt<BR> Spring Cleaning at Night — Susan Gimignani Lukas<BR> Baptism — Rennie Mc Quilkin<BR>1993<BR>164 East 72nd Street — James Merrill<BR>On Rollerblades — Carole Stasiowski<BR>Kafka: Lilacs — Robert Cording<BR>Wild Thing — Norah Pollard<BR>Las Dos Camas/Two Beds — Bessy Reyna<BR>1994<BR>A Barred Owl — Richard Wilbur<BR>The Black Back-ups — Kate Rushin<BR>Shenandoah — Honor Moore<BR>The Other Alamo — Martín Espada<BR> The Book of God — Ted Deppe<BR>1995<BR>How Could She Not — Galway Kinnell<BR>First Grade—Standing in the Hall — Cheryl Savageau<BR>Totem — Jeffrey Harrison<BR>Terms of Endearment — Sue Ellen Thompson<BR>Undertaker — Patricia Smith<BR>Withouth — Donald Hall<BR>1996<BR>Touch Me — Stanley Kunitz<BR>Mrs. Krikorian — Sharon Olds <BR>For a Little Girl of Pompeii — Brendan Galvin<BR>The cat’s song — Marge Piercy<BR>Abba Jacob and — Marilyn Nelson<BR>1997<BR>Visitation — Mark Doty<BR>Sweet Daddy — Patricia Smith<BR>Backstroking at Thrushwood Lake — Dick Allen<BR>El Placer de la Palabra — Naomi Ayala<BR>Japan — Billy Collins<BR>1998<BR>Curvew — Carolyn Forché<BR>His Hands – Natasha Trethewey<BR>Prayer Ascending, Prayer Descending — Margaret Gibson •Shooter — Leo Connellan<BR>Scrambed Eggs and Whiskey — Hayden Carruth<BR>the thirty eighth year — Lucille Clifton<BR>1999<BR> Wing Road — Eamon Grennan<BR>’Every man whose soul is not a cloud hath visions’ — Gray Jacobik<BR>Imagining Myself My Father — Stephen Dunn<BR>The Path to the Milky Way Leads Through Los Angeles — Joy Harjo<BR>The Death of the Hat — Billy Collins<BR>2000<BR>Among Children — Philip Levine<BR>What the Living Do — Marie Howe<BR>Refrigerator, 1957 — Thomas Lux<BR>My Late Father’s Junk Mail — Susan Kinsolving<BR>He Raises His Cup — Zach Sussman<BR>Preciosa Like a Last Cup of Coffee — Martín Espada<BR>2001<BR>Ballad — Sonia Sanchez<BR>We All Fall Down — Rennie Mc Quilkin<BR>Birthday Girl: 1950 — Linda Mc Carriston<BR>Distances — Edgar Gabriel Silex<BR>Listening to My Father Practice — Emily Madsen<BR>Packing Plant — Peter Schmitt<BR>Blues — Doug Anderson<BR>2002<BR>Facing It — Yusef Komunyakaa<BR>Martha Stewart’s Ten Commandments for Snow — Vivian Shipley<BR>The One I Think of Now — Wesley Mc Nair<BR>25 Haiku — Marilyn Chin<BR>To Be the Lighter Shade of Black — Jennifer Steele<BR>At Spike’s Garage — Steve Straight<BR>2003<BR>Morning Swim — Maxine Kumin<BR>Psalm for Distribution — Jack Agueros<BR>Strange Altars — Margaret Gibson<BR>Natasha in a Mellow Mood — Tim Seibles<BR>Roots — Haily Gallant<BR>The Litany of Streets — Tony Fusco<BR>Guardian Angel — Wally Swist <BR>2004<BR>Here — Grace Paley<BR>Winner of the Volcanoes: Guatemala — Richard Blanco •Anyways — Suzanne Cleary<BR>Seed Sack — Joan Joffe Hall<BR>Field — Martha Collins<BR>Sacrilege — Emily Ayer<BR>Going to Canada — Kate Rushin<BR>2005<BR> The Skeptics — Gary Soto<BR>My Father’s Gift — Edwina Trentham<BR>Sofa-Bed — Douglas Goetsch<BR>Common as Air — Brad Davis<BR>from Urban Renewal — Major Jackson<BR>All Natural Drunkard — Lily Press<BR>Nunca tu Alma — Courtney Davis<BR>2006<BR>The Bell Zygmunt — Jane Hirshfield<BR>You bring out the boring white guy in me — Jim Daniels<BR>Bolivia Street — John Surowiecki<BR>What She Wanted — Reneé Ashley<BR>Immigrant Blues — Li-Young Lee<BR>As a Poet — Olivia Ho-Shing<BR>Last Light — Norah Pollard<BR>2008 •Poem of Disconnected Parts — Robert Pinsky<BR>Night Drive — Theo Theofilos<BR>What Was Said to the Rose — Coleman Barks<BR>The Lanyard — Billy Collins<BR>Duties of the Spirit — Patricia Fargnoli<BR>Maestro — Ilya Kaminsky<BR>The Mountain Is Holding Out — Paul Muldoon<BR>what i left on capen street — Sasha Debevec-Mc Kenney<BR>2009<BR>from August Notebook: A Death — Robert Hass<BR>The Late Cold War — Brenda Hillman<BR>First Try — Susanna Myserth<BR>My Last Borders, or Poem Ending with a Homage to W. B. Yeats — Baron Wormser<BR>Summersick — Martha Crouch<BR>My Imaginary Husband — Kim Roberts<BR>Ellipse — Lita Hooper<BR>Aubade (Dawn Song) — Marilyn Nelson<BR>Where We Live — Don Thompson<BR>The Coffin Store — C. K. Williams<BR>2010<BR>It All Comes Back — Galway Kinnell<BR>The Ukiyo-e Lady in the Snow — Bessy Reyna<BR>Every Person in This Town Loves Football — Gabrielle Calvocoressi<BR>Happy Birthday — Kate Lebo<BR>Under the Porch — Ginny Connors<BR>Ghost Elephants — Jean Valentine<BR>Nationalism — Kristin Rocha<BR>Cocktails with Orpheus — Terrance Hayes<BR>Barbie Gone — Victoria Chen<BR>Undivided Attention — Taylor Mali<BR>2011<BR>The Facts — Pat Hale<BR>Romantic Moment — Tony Hoagland<BR>Cattleya Trianae in the Church of a Seventh Grade Garden — Luisa Caycedo-Kimura<BR>Love song to my motorized wheelchair — Ekiwah Adler-Belendez<BR>My Muse — Elizabeth Thomas<BR>This Far — Dick Allen<BR>Obituary (or the thing it should have said) — Carolyn Orosz<BR>Why A Colored Girl Will Slice You If You Talk Wrong About Motown — Patricia Smith<BR>winter — David Watts<BR>Pescadero — Mark Doty<BR>Chronology<BR>Contributors<BR>Acknowledgments<BR>Index of Poets</P>
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<P>BRAD DAVIS teaches creative writing at College of the Holy Cross, and edits Hill-Stead’s online poetry journal Theodate. Poet Rennie Mc Quilkin and former Northeast Magazine editor Lary Bloom were collaborators in the founding of the poetry festival, and Mc Quilkin directed the festival for many years.</P>