Staff & Supporters

Directors: Jennifer Buño & Alyssa Yankwitt

Emails: jbuno@ccny.cuny.edu / ayankwitt@ccny.cuny.edu

Deputy Director, High School Contest: Gregory Crosby

Email: ccnypoetryoutreachcenter@gmail.com

 

Supporters

The Poetry Outreach Center's Annual Poetry Festival is funded by the following:

Renata Miller, Dean of Humanities

Dr. Vincent Boudreau, President

Tony Liss, Provost

Dee Dee Mozeleski, Senior Vice President & Executive Director,
The Foundation for City College, The Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications, & External Relations, & Senior Advisor to the President 

Annika Ludke, Director, Foundations & Corporate Relations, The Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications, & External Relations & The Foundation for City College 

Kelly M. Sullivan, Development Coordinator
The Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications, and External Relations & The Foundation for City College 

David Covington, Executive Director, CCNY Alumni Association

Gregory Shanck, City College Center for the Arts

Axe-Houghton Foundation

The Reiser Family

Jay and Andrea Schachne 

The South Wind Foundation 

David & Harrianne Wallenstein 

Poets and Writers, Inc.

Barry Wallenstein, Professor Emeritus 
 

 

Board of Advisors

Pamela Laskin, Chair

Madeline Beckman

Kay Poema

Cornelius Eady

Sue Guiney

J. Chester Johnson

Marvin Koenig 

Vasyl Makhno

Alicia Ostriker

Rhöm Robert

Jay Schachne

Grace Schulman

Richard Strier

Barry Wallenstein

David Wallenstein

Stephanie Yankwitt



Founding Members

Gwendolyn Brooks
William Matthews
Raymond Patterson
Adrienne Rich
M.L. Rosenthal
Jerome J. Steiker
Barry Wallenstein

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