{"id":4924,"date":"2023-03-20T15:43:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T22:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/engl\/?page_id=4924"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:53:06","slug":"magill-poetry-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/engl\/events-and-prizes\/magill-poetry-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magill Poetry Series"},"content":{"rendered":" \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Through the Magill Poetry Series, the Department of English welcomes poets from all over the world.<\/p>\n

We hold this annual poetry reading to honor the memory of Dr. Frank Magill and his extraordinary commitment to and passion for poetry. Jim Magill, Frank\u2019s son, has continued his own dedication to this series and its recognition of the importance of poetry in the life of our culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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\n\n \n 2025 Magill Poet<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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\n Cal Bedient\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Poem after poem, line by line, Cal Bedient<\/strong> has grown more exuberant, uncompromising, and unruly. The more control he can access, the more gleefully though choosily he can dispose of interference, any intermediary between himself and the moment. His forms are as multiple as they are true to their concerns; each is sonically on the mark and packed, optically tight. \u201cSocrates had his demon,\u201d he writes, \u201chonk if you have a demon.\u201d He honks every time he passes. It is the promiscuous disunity, the arrant variety of being, seeing, declaiming and discerning at which Cal Bedient so excels. . .<\/p>\n

The inner drives swerve from being feathered with bliss to a collision with an unfinished life. All gets \u201clusciously worded up\u201d and multiplied 16 x16 x 16 times . . . What a lunge; what a rush.<\/p>\n

\u2013 C.D. Wright, author of One With Others<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n

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Past featured poets<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
2024<\/strong> – Annelyse Gelman<\/a><\/p>\n

2023 – <\/strong>Bruce Bond<\/a><\/p>\n

2022<\/strong>\u00a0– Tom Sleigh<\/a><\/p>\n

2019<\/strong> – Angie Estes<\/a><\/p>\n

2018<\/strong> – Arthur Sze<\/a><\/p>\n

2017<\/strong> – Forrest Gander<\/a><\/p>\n

2016<\/strong> – Linda Gregerson<\/a><\/p>\n

2015<\/strong> – Mary Ruefle<\/a><\/p>\n

2014<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Yusef Komunyakaa<\/a><\/p>\n

2013<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0James Tate<\/a><\/p>\n

2011<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Paul Muldoon<\/a><\/p>\n

2010<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Carolyn Forch\u00e9<\/a><\/td>\n

2009<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Robert Hass<\/a><\/p>\n

2008<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Stanley Plumly<\/a><\/p>\n

2007<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Jorie Graham<\/a><\/p>\n

2006<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Philip Levine<\/a>\u00a0& W. S. Merwin<\/a><\/p>\n

2005<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Rita Dove<\/a><\/p>\n

2004<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Donald Revell<\/a><\/p>\n

2003<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Donald Hall<\/a><\/p>\n

2002<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Alan Shapiro<\/a><\/p>\n

2001<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Thom Gunn<\/a><\/p>\n

2000<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0C. K. Williams<\/a><\/p>\n

1999<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Charles Simic<\/a><\/td>\n

1998<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Marilyn Nelson<\/a><\/p>\n

1997<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Philip Levine<\/a><\/p>\n

1996<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Carolyn Kizer<\/a><\/p>\n

1995<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Charles Wright<\/a><\/p>\n

1994<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0W. S. Merwin<\/a><\/p>\n

1993<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Eavan Boland<\/a><\/p>\n

1992<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Adrienne Rich<\/a><\/p>\n

1991<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Mark Strand<\/a><\/p>\n

1990<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Richard Wilbur<\/a><\/p>\n

1989<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Louise Gluck<\/a><\/p>\n

1988<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0James Merrill<\/a><\/p>\n

1987<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Czeslaw Milosz<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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