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Lamont Poetry Series: 1983-1989

1983-1984

Jorge Luis Borges--April 27, 1983
Read an online biography
of Borges

Denise Levertov--December 2, 1983
View the Poetry Foundation page on Levertov

T. Alan Broughton--February 10, 1984
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Michael S. Harper--April 27, 1984
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1985-1987

Mary Oliver--February 18, 1985
View the Academy of American Poets
page on Oliver

Seamus Heaney--May 15, 1985
View the Internet Poetry Archive
on Heaney

Howard Nemerov--October 31, 1985
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page on Nemerov

Gwendolyn Brooks--January 9, 1986
View the Poetry Foundation page on Brooks

Lucille Clifton--February 25, 1987
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William E. Stafford--May 6, 1987
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1988-1989

Henry Taylor--February 17, 1988
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Verandah Porche--November 9, 1988
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Robert Bly--February 1, 1989
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Richard Wilbur--May 10, 1989
View the Poetry Foundation page on Wilbur

Galway Kinnell--October 11, 1989
View the Academy of American Poets page on Kinnell