2024 Featured Speakers

U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limon

Students will study poems from two of her collections:  The Hurting Kind (2022) and Bright Dead Things (2015) and attend a reading hosted by The Boutelle Poetry Center at Smith College, Northampton, Ma. (April 30, 2024

CT Poet Laureate, Antoinette Brim-Bell

Students will study poems from her collection Psalm of the Sunflower (2010) and The Witness Stones Project in preparation for her reading and craft talk during an all-school assembly on Monday, April 8, 2024.

2023 Featured Speakers

National Book Award Winner, Martin Espada. 

Students read poetry from among several of his collections such as:  Floaters, Imagine the Angels of Bread, and Trumpets from the Islands of their Eviction in addition to hearing Professor Espada read and participating in a Question and Answer session. (April, 2023) 

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, poet and essayist

Students attended a virtual reading and question and answer session, which was sponsored by The Boutelle Poetry Center at Smith College, Northampton, Ma.