Poetry@TECH's Reading series are a much-loved part of the Atlanta arts and culture scene. From its inception in 2002, over the past two decades, we have brought renowned poets from around the world to Atlanta to share their poetry.
Poetry@TECH has partnered with the Georgia Tech Cable Network (GTCN) to record our poetry readings. Videos of many of these readings are shared below, as well as on the Poetry@Tech YouTube Channel, and the GTCN YouTube Channel.
Featured Poets by Year
For easy access, you can find a list of poets featured at Poetry@TECH readings by expanding the list below, and finding the corresponding video at the specific year in the list below.
The poets are listed in reverse-chronological order, arranged alphabetically by last name in each year.
2021 -
2022 - Rosebud Ben-Oni, Daniel Borzutsky, Marilyn Chin, Martin Espada, Bruce McEver, Carolyn Forché, Rachel Galvin, Nathalie Handal, Ishion Hutchinson, Boris Khersonsky, Ludmila Khersonsky, Dana Levin, Alicia Ostriker, Alberto Ríos, Diane Seuss, Charles Simic, Jasmine Elizabeth Smith, Ocean Vuong, Jenny Xie, Lyuba Yakimchuk, Javier Zamora.
2021 - Hanif Abdurraqib, Mario Chard, Chen Chen, Julia Cimafiejeva, Travis Denton, Ming Di, Natalie Diaz, Vievee Francis, Kenneth Knoespel, Uladzimir Liankievič, Maryja Martysevič, Bruce McEver, Erika Meitner, Maggie Smith, Valzhyna Mort, Dmitry Strotsev, Arthur Sze, Chioma Urama, Afaa Michael Weaver, Eleanor Wilner, Zhou Xiaojing, and Zheng Xiaoqiong.
2016 - 2020
2020 - Kwame Dawes, Chelsea Dingman, Ross Gay, Karen Head, Collin Kelley, Dunya Mikhail, Mahtem Shiferraw, Danez Smith.
2019 - Kaveh Akbar, Eduardo Corral, Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Carolina Ebeid, Juan Felipe Herrera, Rosa Lane, David Tomas Martinez, Bruce McEver, Robert Pinsky, Chelsea Rathburn, Mai Der Vang, Ada Limon.
2018 - David Bottoms, Christopher Collins, Travis Denton, Stuart Dischell, Carolyn Forche, Ilya Kaminsky, Bruce McEver, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Valzhyna Mort, Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
2017 - Victoria Chang, Billy Collins, Matt Hart, Tyehimba Jess, Judson Mitcham, Anis Mojgani, Dean Parkin, Vijay Seshadri, Chris Salerno.
2016 - Mark Doty, Niilas Holmberg, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, James Davis May, Bruce McEver, Andrew Motion, Ginger Murchison, Anya Silver.
2011 - 2015
2015 - Ellen Bass, Bruce Beasley, Brigitte Byrd, Andrea Cohen, William Corbett, Linda Gregerson, Christopher Howell, Esther Lee, Bruce McEver, Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Tim Seibles, Bruce Weigl.
2014 - Malachi Black, Richard Blanco, Jericho Brown, Denise Duhamel, Cornelius Eady, Rupert Fike, Kurtis Lamkin, Klaus Martens, Bruce McEver, Jeffrey McDaniel, Sandra Meek, Seth Michelson, Jon Sands, Vivek Sharma, Patricia Smith, Ron Smith.
2013 - Kim Addonizio, Stephen Dunn, Terrance Hayes, Anne Marie Macari, Laura Newbern, Dan Veach, Thom Ward, Afaa Michael Weaver, Robert Wrigley.
2012 - David Bottoms, Theresa Davis, Kwame Dawes, Chris Forhan, Alice Friman, Bob Hicok, Jamaal May, Bruce McEver, David Wojahn.
2011 - Rosemary Daniell, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dobyns, Richard Jackson, Kate Johnson, Bruce McEver, Robert Wood.
2006 - 2010
2010 - Billy Collins, Robert Fanning, Gregory Fraser, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Barbara Hamby, Robert Perry Ivey, Bruce McEver, Ginger Murchison, Jillian Weise.
2009 - Mark Halliday, Karen Head, Allison Joseph, Bruce McEver, Ed Pavlic, Chelsea Rathburn, John Skoyles, Kevin Young.
2008 - Kim Addonizio, Roger Bonair-Agard, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Andrew Hudgins, Mark Jarman, Ilya Kaminsky, Taylor Mali, Marty McConnell, Bruce McEver, Opal Moore, David St. John, Gypsee Yo.
2007 - Katie Chaple, Travis Denton, Ross Gay, Jon Goode, Tony Hoagland, Van Jordan, Collin Kelley, David Kirby, Patrick Rosal, Dean Young.
2006 - Frank Bidart, Chard deNiord, Cherryl Floyd-Miller, Major Jackson, Steve Kowit, Kurtis Lamkin, Martin Lammon, Bruce McEver, Gregory Orr, Tania Rochelle, Dr. Michael Salcman, A.E. Stallings, Dr. John Stone, Dr. Marc Straus, Charles Harper Webb.
2002 - 2005
2005 - C.K. Williams, Adam Zagajewski, Bruce McEver, Stuart Dischell, Natasha Trethaway, Kurt Brown, Doreen Gildroy, Michael Ryan, Thomas Lux, Patrick Phillips, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Memye Tucker.
2004 - Bruce McEver, Thomas Lux, Patricia Smith, Brooks Haxton, Vijay Seshadri, Jeffrey McDaniel, Billy Collins, Neil Rollinson, Naomi Jaffa, Dean Parkin, Gerald Stern, Kurtis Lamkin, Mary Karr, Ralph Tejada Wilson, Sharan Strange, Blake Leland.
2003 - Thomas Lux, Bruce McEver, Stephen Dobyns, Patricia Smith and the Bop Thunderous, Marilyn Nelson, Ed Hirsch, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Lawrence (Larry) Rubin, Anthony Kellman, Eric Nelson.
2002 - Rita Dove, Stephen Dobyns, Billy Collins, Lucille Clifton.
Video Archive by Year
2022
An Evening of Poetry
14 April, 2022
Featuring: Daniel Borzutsky, Nathalie Handal, and Charles Simic
The McEver Poetry Reading
17 February, 2022
Featuring: Martin Espada, Jasmine Elizabeth Smith, and Bruce McEver
The 4th Atlanta International Poetry & Translation Festival - Ukrainian & US Poets
25 January, 2022
Featuring:
Ukrainian Poets: Boris Khersonsky, Ludmila Khersonsky, and Lyuba Yakimchuk
US Poets: Jenny Xie, Javier Zamora, and Diane Seuss
Moderated by: Oksana Maksymchuk and Oleh Kotsyuba
2021
The 3rd Atlanta International Poetry & Translation Festival: An Evening of Chinese Poetry
18 November, 2021
Featuring: Ming Di, Zheng Xiaoqiong, and Zhou Xiaojing
An Evening of Poetry
21 October, 2021
Featuring: Afaa Michael Weaver, Eleanor Wilner, and Erika Meitner
The 20th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
9 September, 2021
Featuring: Chen Chen, and Kenneth Knoespel
The McEver Poetry Reading
7 April, 2021
Featuring: Arthur Sze, Maggie Smith, and Bruce McEver
The 2nd Atlanta International Poetry & Translation Festival: Belarusian & US Poets
18 March, 2021
Featuring:
Belarusian Poets: Valzhyna Mort, Dmitry Strotsev, Maryja Martysevič, Julia Cimafiejeva, Uladzimir Liankievič
US Poets: Vievee Francis, Hanif Abdurraqib, Travis Denton, Mario Chard
An Evening of Poetry and Georgia Poetry Prize Book Release
11 February, 2021
Featuring: Natalie Diaz, and Chioma Urama
2020
An Evening of Poetry
19 November, 2020
Featuring: JC Reilly, and Victoria Chang
The 1st Atlanta International Poetry & Translation Festival
29 October, 2020
featuring:
German Poets:
Ulrich Koch, Georg Leß, Karolina Golimowska, Anja Kampmann, Dagmara Kraus, Yevgeniy Breyger, and Ronya Othmann
and US Poets:
Jericho Brown, Linda Gregerson, Brenda Shaughnessy, Sandra Meek, Ilya Kaminsky, and Mario Chard
in collaboration with
Haus für Poesie Berlin, Emory University, The Westminster Schools, and Berry College.
The 19th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
1 October, 2020
Featuring: Ross Gay
Spring 2021 Immigrant/Refugee Poetry Reading
20 February, 2020
Featuring: Kwame Dawes, Mahtem Shiferraw, and Dunya Mikhail
Kwame Dawes
Born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica, Kwame Dawes’s work appears in the world's best journals including Granta, World Literature Today, and The New Yorker. He is the author of over 20 books. Dawes has won the prestigious Forward Prize in United Kingdom and the equally prestigious Windham-Campbell Literature Prize given by Yale University, an Emmy Award, and multiple other honors.
2019
The McEver Poetry Reading
Featuring: Juan Felipe Herrera, Chelsea Rathburn, and Bruce McEver
Ada Limón
Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry. Her book The Carrying was named one of the five poetry books of the year by The Washington Post. It also won the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. Her first book, Bright Dead Things was a finalist for the National Book Award. The New York Times calls her work remarkable. Washington Post calls her poetry powerful. The former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith says that Ada Limón “is a poet of ecstatic jubilation.”
2018
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
McEver Poetry Reading
22 February 2018
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of three books of poetry: Lucky Fish, winner of the Hoffer Grand Prize for Prose and Independent Books; At the Drive In Volcano and Miracle Fruit. With Ross Gay she coauthored Lace & Pyrite, a chapbook of nature poems. She's the poetry editor of Orion magazine and her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, and Tin House. Her awards for her writing include NEA Fellowship in poetry and the Pushcart Prize.
2017
Matt Hart
2 November 2017
Matt Hart poems are innovative. He's language is fresh, and his voice is absolutely urgent. He's the author of seven collections of poems and has received fellowships from places like Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Warren Wilson College. He's the cofounder, and the editor-in-chief of Forklift Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety. They hand make every single journal, and they are absolutely beautiful. He lives in Cincinnati. He’s the associate professor in creative writing and the chair of liberal arts at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. And, most importantly, he plays guitar and shouts in the band’s travel, and the loud asunder.
Victoria Chang
2 November 2017
Victoria Chang is the author of of Barbie Chang (Copper Canyon Press, 2017); The Boss (McSweeney’s, 2013), winner of a PEN Center USA Literary Award and a California Book Award; Salvinia Molesta (University of Georgia Press, 2008); and Circle (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). Chang is also the editor of the anthology Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (University of Illinois Press, 2004) and author of a picture book, Is Mommy? (Beach Lane Books, 2015), illustrated by Marla Frazee. Her collection OBIT, forthcoming in 2020 from Copper Canyon Press, won the 2018 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. (poets.org/poet/victoria-chang)
Anis Mojgani
2 November 2017
Anis Mojgani is the author of four poetry collections, a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion, and winner of the International World Cup of Poetry Slam. He has performed for audiences at the House of Blues and the United Nations, and has appeared on HBO and NPR.
Tyehimba Jess
The 16th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
28 Sep 2017
Tyehimba Jess was born in Detroit, Michigan, and earned a BA from the University of Chicago and an MFA from New York University. He is the author of Olio (Wave Books, 2016), winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and leadbelly (Wave Books, 2005), winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. Jess has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, and a Whiting Award. He is the poetry and fiction editor of African American Review and an associate professor of English at the College of Staten Island.
Billy Collins
The 16th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
28 Sep 2017
Billy Collins is the author of several books of poetry, including Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013), Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems (Random House, 2012); Ballistics: Poems (2008); She Was Just Seventeen (2006); The Trouble with Poetry (2005); Nine Horses (2002); Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (2001); Picnic, Lightning (1998); The Art of Drowning (1995), which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Questions About Angels (1991), which was selected by Edward Hirsch for the National Poetry Series; The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988); Video Poems (1980); and Pokerface (1977). Collins served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003, and as the New York State Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006. (poets.org/poet/billy-collins)
A Tribute to Thomas Lux
23 April 2017
International Poetry Reading
23 February 2017
featuring Dean Parkin, Judson Mitcham, and Chris Salerno
2016
The H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
3 November 2016
featuring James Davis May, Anya Silver, and Bruce McEver
The 14th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
29 September 2016
featuring Ginger Murchison and Mark Doty
The H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
7 April 2016
featuring Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Bruce McEver
Poetry Reading
25 February 2016
featuring Andrew Motion and Niilas Holmberg
2015
The Adam Stephens Night Out for Poetry
19 November 2015
featuring Brigitte Byrd, Bruce Beasley, and Andrea Cohen
An Evening of Poetry
22 October 2015
featuring Linda Gregerson and Christopher Howell
The 13th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
1 October 2015
featuring Ellen Bass and William Corbett
Spring Poetry Reading
2 April 2015
featuring Tim Seibles and Esther Lee
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading and TechARTS Festival
26 February 2015
featuring Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Bruce Weigl, and Bruce McEver
2014
The Adam Stephens Night Out for Poetry
13 November 2014
featuring Denise Duhamel and Malachi Black
Poetry Reading
23 October 2014
featuring Ron Smith and Seth Michelson
The 12th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
25 September 2014
featuring Richard Blanco and Jericho Brown
Klaus Martens
14 Mar 2014
Jon Sands
Georgia Tech Arts@TECH Festival Reading
20 Feb 2014
Vivek Sharma
Georgia Tech Arts@TECH Festival Reading
20 Feb 2014
Jeffrey McDaniel
Georgia Tech Arts@TECH Festival Reading
20 Feb 2014
2013
2012
Bob Hicok
The Adam Stephens Night Out for Poetry
8 November 2012
Jamaal May
The Adam Stephens Night Out for Poetry
8 November 2012
The 9th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
27 September 2012
featuring Naomi Shihab Nye and Michael Dickman
David Bottoms
5 April 2012
Kwame Dawes
5 April 2012
David Wojahn
8 March 2012
Alice Friman
8 March 2012
Bruce McEver
The McEver Poetry Reading
9 February 2012
Chris Forhan
The McEver Poetry Reading
9 February 2012
Theresa Davis
The McEver Poetry Reading
9 February 2012
2011
Kate Johnson
The Adam Stephens Night Out for Poetry
27 October 2011
Stephen Dobyns
The Adam Stephens Night Out for Poetry
27 October 2011
Carl Dennis
The Adam Stephens Night Out for Poetry
27 October 2011
Poetry Reading
29 September 2011
featuring Stephen Dobyns and Cynthia Cruz
Poetry Reading
7 April 2011
featuring Campbell McGrath and Marjory Wentworth
Poetry Reading
15 March 2011
featuring Chad Davidson, Gerry Lafemina, and Joel Brouwer
Bruce McEver
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
17 February 2011
Robert Wood
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
17 February 2011
Rosemary Daniell
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
17 February 2011
Richard Jackson
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
17 February 2011
2010
Kathleen Ann Goonan
2 December 2010
Jillian Weise
2 December 2010
Gregory Fraser
2 December 2010
Billy Collins
The 8th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
5 October 2010
Robert Fanning
2 April 2010
Barbara Hamby
2 April 2010
Ginger Murchison
McEver Poetry Reading
5 February 2010
Robert Perry Ivey
McEver Poetry Reading
5 February 2010
Bruce McEver
McEver Poetry Reading
5 February 2010
2009
Mark Halliday
25 September 2009
Allison Joseph
25 September 2009
Kevin Young
3 April 2009
Ed Pavlic
3 April 2009
Chelsea Rathburn
McEver Poetry Reading
5 February 2009
John Skoyles
McEver Poetry Reading
5 February 2009
Bruce McEver
McEver Poetry Reading
5 February 2009
Karen Head
McEver Poetry Reading
5 February 2009
2008
Gypsee Yo
An Evening of Spoken Word
6 December 2008
Taylor Mali
An Evening of Spoken Word
6 December 2008
Roger Bonair-Agard
An Evening of Spoken Word
6 December 2008
Marty McConnell
An Evening of Spoken Word
6 December 2008
Ilya Kaminsky
The 7th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
14 November 2008
David St. John
The 7th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
14 November 2008
Andrew Hudgins
19 September 2008
Kim Addonizio
19 September 2008
Mark Jarman
19 September 2008
Poetry Reading
Emerging Poets Reading
Bruce McEver
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
7 February 2008
Opal Moore
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
7 February 2008
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
7 February 2008
2007
Collin Kelley
Georgia Poets Reading
6 December 2007
Jon Goode
Georgia Poets Reading
6 December 2007
Katie Chaple
Georgia Poets Reading
6 December 2007
Dean Young
The 6th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
18 October 2007
Tony Hoagland
The 6th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
18 October 2007
Poetry Reading
David Kirby
19 April 2007
Van Jordan
19 April 2007
Patrick Rosal
Emerging Poets Reading
15 March 2007
Ross Gay
Emerging Poets Reading
15 March 2007
Travis Denton
Emerging Poets Reading
15 March 2007
2006
Spoken Word/Slam Artists Reading
17 November 2006
Featuring Marvin 'Ayodele' Heath, Bob Holman, M.L. Liebler, Patricia Smith, Kodac Harrison, and Reggie Gibson
Frank Bidart
The 5th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
25 October 2006
Gregory Orr
The 5th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
25 October 2006
Major Jackson
The 5th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
25 October 2006
Martin Lammon
Georgia Poets Reading
26 August 2006
Cherryl Floyd-Miller
Georgia Poets Reading
26 August 2006
Tania Rochelle
Georgia Poets Reading
26 August 2006
Dr. John Stone
A Program of Poetry & Medicine
(in collaboration with the Georgia Cancer Coalition)
20 April 2006
Dr. Michael Salcman
A Program of Poetry & Medicine
(in collaboration with the Georgia Cancer Coalition)
20 April 2006
Dr. Marc Straus
A Program of Poetry & Medicine
(in collaboration with the Georgia Cancer Coalition)
20 April 2006
Charles Harper Webb
2 March 2006
A.E. Stallings
2 March 2006
Steve Kowit
2 March 2006
Kurtis Lamkin
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
2 February 2006
Bruce McEver
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
2 February 2006
Chard deNiord
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
2 February 2006
2005
Memye Tucker
Georgia Poets Reading
29 November 2005
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Georgia Poets Reading
29 November 2005
Patrick Phillips
Georgia Poets Reading
29 November 2005
Thomas Lux
The 4th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
26 October 2005
Michael Ryan
The 4th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
26 October 2005
Doreen Gildroy
The 4th Annual Bourne Poetry Reading
26 October 2005
Adam Zagajewski
3 March 2005
C.K. Williams
3 March 2005
Kurt Brown
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
3 February 2005
Natasha Tretheway
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
3 February 2005
Stuart Dischell
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
3 February 2005
Bruce McEver
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
3 February 2005
2004
Blake Leland
18 November 2004
Sharan Strange
18 November 2004
Ralph Tejada Wilson
18 November 2004
Mary Karr
21 October 2004
Kurtis Lamkin
21 October 2004
Gerald Stern
21 October 2004
Dean Parkin
British Poets Reading
28 September 2004
Naomi Jaffa
British Poets Reading
28 September 2004
Neil Rollinson
British Poets Reading
28 September 2004
Billy Collins
1 April 2004
Jeffrey McDaniel
24 February 2004
Vijay Seshadri
24 February 2004
Brooks Haxton
24 February 2004
Patricia Smith
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
5 February 2004
Thomas Lux
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
5 February 2004
Bruce McEver
H. Bruce McEver Poetry Reading
5 February 2004
2003
Eric Nelson
17 November 2003
Anthony Kellman
17 November 2003
Lawrence (Larry) Rubin
17 November 2003
Ellen Bryant Voigt
9 October 2003
Ed Hirsch
9 October 2003
Marilyn Nelson
9 October 2003
Stephen Dobyns Presents: Patricia Smith and the Bop Thunderous
24 March 2003
Stephen Dobyns
6 February 2003
Thomas Lux
6 February 2003
Bruce McEver
6 February 2003
2002
Lucille Clifton
The 1st Annual Margaret T. and Harry C. Bourne, Jr. Poetry Reading
October 28, 2002
Billy Collins
The 1st Annual Margaret T. and Harry C. Bourne, Jr. Poetry Reading
October 28, 2002
Rita Dove
The 1st Annual Margaret T. and Harry C. Bourne, Jr. Poetry Reading
October 28, 2002
Stephen Dobyns
The 1st Annual Margaret T. and Harry C. Bourne, Jr. Poetry Reading
October 28, 2002
