The Amy Clampitt Memorial Reading

Since 2004, The Amy Clampitt Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation has presented nearly annually the Amy Clampitt Memorial Reading by a distinguished poet. Readings have been given at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s home in Lenox, MA.


2004 Paul Muldoon

2005 Rita Dove

2006 Robert Pinsky

2007 Philip Levine

2008 Marge Piercy

2011 Kevin Young

2012 Mary Jo Salter

2013 Mark Strand

2014 Sharon Olds

2015 Gjertrud Schnackenberg

2016 Billy Collins

2017 Andrew Motion

2018 Natasha Trethewey

2023 Willard Spiegelman

2025 Carl Phillips