Supporters

We salute those individuals and foundations whose leadership donations have enabled the growth of Poets House:

Penny & John Barr • Thomas M. & Kate Cheney Chappell • Robert & Angela Kissane • The Estate of Deborah S. Pease • Myra & Harold Shapiro • Margo & Anthony Viscusi • The J. M. Kaplan Fund • The Reed Foundation • The Tomorrow Foundation

Poets House programs and services are made possible, in part, with public funds from:

Battery Park City Authority • Institute of Museum & Library Services • National Endowment for the Arts • National Endowment for the Humanities • National Science Foundation • New York City Council • New York State Council on the Arts • New York City Department of Cultural Affairs • New York State Council on the Arts

Additional support comes from the following donors:

Foundations: AKC Fund • Axe-Houghton Foundation • The Howard Bayne Fund • The William Bingham Foundation • Bydale Foundation • Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation • Jerome Foundation • The J.M. Kaplan Fund • Leon Levy Foundation • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council • Open Society Foundation • Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust • Pine Tree Foundation of New York • Poetry Foundation • The Thompson Family Foundation • Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation • The Walbridge Fund • Corporations: Amazon • American Express • Berkshire Capital LLP • Con Edison • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP • Goldman Sachs • Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP • Latham & Watkins LLP • Merck Partnership for Giving • UBS Matching Gift Program • Individuals: Roger Alcaly & Helen Bodian • Arthur Yorke Allen & Mary Stewart Hammond • Anthony Ames • Rebecca Atwater • Joan Baker & Margeaux Klein • Diana Basso • Ellen Ivey Bates • Donald Beeson & Mary-Beth Hughes • R. Dyke & Marianne Benjamin • Richard & Marilyn Berger • Jutta & Hans Bertram-Nothnagel • Joan Blessing • Ernest & Rita Bogen • Jennifer Bohn • Michael A. Boyd • Louise Braverman & Steve Glickel • Karen Brenner & Robert Stein • Vincent Briccetti • Louisa & Jonathan Brill • Barbara K. Bristol • Lawrence Brooks • Karen Burkhardt • John R. Cahill • Marilyn Callander • Virginia Carter • Jim Chervenak • Lisa M. Cirando • Elizabeth Coleman • Ginnie Cooper • Bruce & Mary Crawford • Paul & Caroline Cronson • Anne E. Delaney • Pierre & Ellen de Saint Phalle • Pierre & Ellen de Vegh • Frederick & Michele Oka Doner • Linda Earle • Howard Ellin • Adrian Ellis • Priscilla Ellsworth • John Erwin • Cheri Fein • Marilyn Gelber • Brad Gooch • Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. • Alice Greenwald • Gail Gregg • Patricia Grodd & Michael Stone • David & Joan Grubin • Jim & Erica Barton Haba • Stephen Harvey • Nancy Hechinger • Dawn Heimer • Robert Hermann • Mary Higgins • William Higgins & Anne Covell • Edward Hirsch • George Hirsch • Steven Holl • Rachael Horovitz • Carolyn Hsu • Catherine McVay Hughes • Pam Jackson • Penny & Thomas Campbell Jackson • Laleh Javaheri- Saatchi • J. Chester & Freda Johnson • Patricia Spears Jones • Melissa Kaish & Jonathan Dorfman • Kristen Kalp • Elizabeth Kandall & Jonathan Slone • Meredith J. Kane • Wendy Keys • William & Eileen Kistler • Alan Klein • Jennifer Kouvant & Hans Li • Charles & Naomie Kremer • Gretchen Kunitz • Elizabeth Lack • Cliff Landesman • Wendy Larsen • An-My Lê & John Pilson • Norbert Lempert • Richard Levy & Lorraine Gallard • Owen Lewis & Susan Ennis • Marcia Loughran • Anne Marie Macari • Laurin Macios • Laura Manuelidi • Kathryn Ann McDonald • H. Bruce McEver • The Estate of Ann McGoverns • Margot McLean • Josephine A. Merck • Holly Messitt • James & Agnes Metzger • Richard & Carol Moody • Geoffrey Morley • John Morning • Stanley & Jane Moss • Fred Moten • Ingegerd Mundheim • William James Murray • George & Judy Muser • Eric Nam • Sharon Olds • Susan Oliver • Neil Ortenberg • Thomas Palmer & Dominique Alfandre • Larry & Nancy Pantirer • Antonio Pérez / Borough of Manhattan Community College • Scott Perkins • Lin Peyton • Carole Pittelman • Arthur Platt & Janet Fink • Charles & Joan Platt • Christie & Roger Platt • Frank Platt • Meghann Plunkett • James & Ellyn Polshek • Renate Ponsold • Nicholas F. & Lee Potter • Lynn Preston • Warrie Price • Elise M. Quasebarth • Jonathan Rabinowitz • Charles & Marcia Reiss • Siobhan A. Reardon • Victoria Redel • Ira M. Resnick • Frederic C. Rich • Paul Romero • Stewart Rosenblum • Neal Rosenthal & Kerry Madigan • Reed & Jane Gregory Rubin • Katharine Rudbeck • Jeannette Watson Sanger • Susan & Bruce Schlechter • Robert Schneck • Erik Schurink • Sheila Schwartz • Andrew Senchak • Karen Shapiro & Syud Sharif • Laura Baudo Sillerman & Robert F.X. Sillerman • Michael T. Sillerman • Ira Silverberg • Lee Slonimsky • E. Ward & Carolyn Smith • Edward Sonnenschein • Mary Spalding • Giorgio Spanu & Nancy Olnick • André Spears & Anne Rosen • William Spears • Jamie Stern • Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum • Quincy & Margaret Troupe • Enzo & Mayalen Viscusi • Jennifer Vorbach • William Vrattos • Arete Warren • Eliot Weinberger • David West • Weldon Wilson • David Winn • Anne Wright • Charles Wright • Benjamin Yakas • Kevin Young • Michael Young • Eric Zahler & Karen Gantz • Anonymous (3). And special thanks to the Estate of Joseph A. Precker, Robert J. Wilk, and Paola Baccaglini.

We thank each of our members and all of those who have contributed to our support this year. Poets House depends on donations. If you aren’t a member, please consider becoming one. Members at all levels receive free admission to Poets House programs for a full year.