The Amy Clampitt Residency Program

with Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation


 

The Amy Clampitt Fund seeks to benefit poetry and the literary arts, having converted Amy Clampitt’s residence into a facility that provides “a place to foster the study and promotion of poetry and/or a poet in residence.”

Learn more at Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation


Current Resident

Virginia Konchan, July - December 2023

Past Residents

Ama Codjoe, 2023

Dante Micheaux, 2022

Cynthia Dewi Oka, 2021

Stephen Kampa, 2021

Dan Albergotti, 2020

Colin Channer, 2020

Jessica Piazza, 2019

Tyree Daye, 2018

Patrick Donnelly, 2018

Malachi Black, 2017

Dora Malech, 2017

Valzhyna Mort, 2016

Safiya Sinclair, 2016

Jacob Shores-Arguello, 2015

Peter Kline, 2014

Lilah Hegnauer, 2013-2014

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, 2013

Michael Rutherglen, 2012-2013

James Arthur, 2012

Glenn Morazzini, 2011-2012

Bruce Snider, 2011

Tess Taylor, 2010-2011

Amy Fleury, 2009-2010

Cody Walker, 2009

Katrina Vandenberg, 2008-2009

Paula Bohince, 2008

John Hennessy, 2007-2008

John Haines, 2006-2007

T. Zachary Cotler, 2006

James Paul, 2005-2006

Alfred Corn, 2004-2005

Willard Spiegelman, 2003-2004

Learn more about recent residents



First-hand experience, poems and podcasts of our previous residents:

 

Jessica Piazza

Tyree Daye

Cody Walker

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Katrina Vandenberg

 

GRANT GUIDELINES

WHO CAN APPLY

Application opens May 1, 2024. Deadline June 15, 2024. The first 50 applications will be accepted for review by the committee.

Learn more about the applications process at Berkshire Taconic Foundation

GRANT INFORMATION

The Amy Clampitt Fund seeks to “benefit poetry and the literary arts by converting Amy Clampitt’s prior residence into a facility which would provide for a place to foster the study and promotion of poetry and/or a poet in residence” through 6-to-12 month residencies at the Amy Clampitt house near Lenox, Massachusetts.

Amy Clampitt was born and brought up in New Providence, Iowa, graduated from Grinnell College, and from that time on lived mainly in New York City. Her first full-length collection of poems, The Kingfisher, published in 1983, was followed in 1985 by What the Light Was Like, in 1987 by Archaic Figure, and in 1990 by Westward. A Silence Opens, her last book, appeared in 1994.

The recipient in 1982 of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 1984 of an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, she was made a MacArthur Prize Fellow in 1992. She purchased a small house in Lenox with part of the award and lived there briefly. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a Writer in Residence at the College of William and Mary, Visiting Writer at Amherst College, and Grace Hazard Conkling Visiting Writer at Smith College. Ms. Clampitt died in September 1994. Her husband, Harold Korn, died in March 2001. It is his estate that has established the Amy Clampitt Fund.

A recent broadcast of NPR's "Morning Edition" featured Amy Clampitt's story. Listen to it here!