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2013 Poster
Design: Jessica Helfand
The 2013 poster features the line "Write about your sorrows, your wishes, your passing thoughts, your belief in anything beautiful." from Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet.
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2012 Poster
Design: Chin-Yee Lai
The 2012 poster features the line "...wait on the wind, catch a scent of salt, call it our life" from U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine's poem "Our Valley."
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2011 Poster
Design: Stephen Doyle
The 2011 poster features the line "bright objects hypnotize the mind" from Elizabeth Bishop's poem "A Word with You." Bishop was born February 8, 1911, so we celebrated her centennial in 2011.
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2010 Poster
Design: Marian Bantjes
The 2010 poster features the lines "We make a dwelling in the evening air, / In which being there together is enough." from Wallace Stevens's poem "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour."
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2009 Poster
Design: Paul Sahre
The 2009 poster features the lines "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" from T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
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2008 Poster
Design: SpotCo
The 2008 poster features a line from Jay Wright's poem "The Healing Improvisation of Hair": I carried my life, like a stone, / in a ragged pocket, but I / had a true weaving song, a sly / way with rhythm, a healing tone.
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2007 Poster
Design: Christoph Niemann
The 2007 poster features a line from Walt Whitman's poem "As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days": And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements of any.
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2006 Poster
Design: Number Seventeen, NYC
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2005 Poster
Design: Chip Kidd
The 2005 poster features Emily Dickinson's dress and a quote from her letters: "Nature is a haunted house—but Art—is a house that tries to be haunted."
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2004 Poster
Design: Milton Glaser
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2003 Poster
Design: Betsy Bell
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2002 Poster
Design: Betsy Bell
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2001 Poster
Design: Betsy Bell
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2000 Poster
Design: Betsy Bell
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1999 Poster
Design: Betsy Bell
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1998 Poster
Painting: Jasper Johns, Map (1961). Oil on Canvas, 6'6" x 10'3-1/8" (198.2 x 314.7 cm) © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Design: Betsy Bell |
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1997 Poster
Illustration: Edward Koren
Design: Jessica Weber |
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1996 Poster
Photo: Arthur Tress
Design: Michael Ian Kaye |
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1999 Magazine Advertisement
Design: Bennett Book Advertising
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1998 Postcard
Andrew Carroll, Executive Director of the American Poetry & Literacy (APL) Project on the eve of his coast-to-coast drive to distribute 100,000 books on poetry.
Photo & Design: Betsy Bell |
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1998 Magazine Advertisement
Photo: Boris Godunov © William Wegman
Quotation: The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, Ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Design: Bennett Book Advertising |
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1997 Magazine Advertisement
Photo: Darius Kinsey, from Kinsey, Photographer, by Dave Bohn and Rodolfo Petschek, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Design: Betsy Bell |