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Board of Directors
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Robert Kissane, President
Frank C. Platt, Vice President
Nicholas F. Potter, Treasurer
Penny Barr
George Cigale
Linda Earle
Cheri Fein
Martín Gómez
Wendy Larsen
H. Bruce McEver
Myra Shapiro
Michael T. Sillerman
Ward Smith
André Spears
Kevin Young
Margo Viscusi,
President Emerita
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Poets Advisory Committee
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The board and staff salute our Poets Advisory Committee.
During the early 1980s, a "think-tank" convened by Elizabeth Kray and Stanley Kunitz,
which included a great number of poets from across the aesthetic terrain,
discussed poets' needs in this country. Their conversations led to an
articulation of the future organization's most basic goals—the nurture of poets, the creation
of dialogue and community, and greater access to and visibility for the
art.
Legal documents for the founding of Poets House were approved in 1985 and
public programming began in 1986. Elizabeth Kray
formally established a remarkably diverse group of poets during those early
days of the organization. They suggested programs and advised on the
building of a library. Their germinal energies and care, and the combined
efforts of so many friends and poet practitioners over the years, has
helped the Poets House library to become one of the most inclusive poetry
collections anywhere, with programs reflecting the entire breadth of the
art. We praise this original Poets Advisory Committee, and mourn the loss
of those of our dear friends who can only be with us in spirit.
Phillip Appleman
Amy Bartlett
Jayne Cortez
Jonathan Galassi
Barbara Guest
Daniel Halpern
Michael Harper
Lawrence Joseph
Galway Kinnell
Denise Levertov
Jackson MacLow
Julio Marzan
William Matthews
Sharon Olds
Robert Phillips
Grace Schulman
Armand Schwerner
David Shapiro
Louis Simpson
William Jay Smith
Gerald Stern
Terese Svoboda
Quincy Troupe
Derek Walcott
C.K. Williams
Later additions included Henri Cole, Jane Cooper &
Michael Heller.
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