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10 Years: The Poetry
Center Counts The Ways
- Poets who have visited: 133
- Female Poets: 78
- Male Poets:
55
- African American Poets: 21
- Gay/Lesbian Poets: 19
- Foreign-Language
Poets: 13
- Arab / Arab American Poets: 3
- Asian / Asian American
Poets: 8
- Hispanic Poets: 6
- Native American Poets: 1
- Translator-Poets:
15
- Pulitzer Prize Winners: 12
- U.S. Poets Laureate: 5 (Billy
Collins, Louise Glück, Stanley Kunitz, Richard Wilbur, Charles Simic)
- Nobel
Prize-Winners: 2 (Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott)
- Total attending readings:
35,528
- Number of times John M. Greene Hall reached a capacity
audience for a reading: 8 (Mary Oliver, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
Billy Collins, Adrienne Rich [twice], Seamus Heaney, Gary Snyder)
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