Name/Title
The Face of PoetryEntry/Object ID
2018.258.043Description
Traveling exhibit "The Face of Poetry" of Rollie McKenna's author portraits. It originally was displayed in the Firestone Library at Princeton University in November of 1962, but was available to schools and museums to display in two week intervals. Due to the size and weight of the exhibit, it is split into three boxes. Each portrait has accompanying biographical information.
Box 1
Title Print
John Betjeman
Allen Tate
John Malcolm Brinnin
Dylan Thomas
Muriel Rukeyser
Vernon Watkins
Stephen Spender
Robert Lowell
Marianne Moore
John Ciardi
Archibald MacLeish
William Plomer
Wallace Stevens
John Lehmann
Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Graves
Robert Frost
Cecil Day Lewis
Howard Nemerov
Randall Jarrell
Box 2
Anthony Hecht
Thom Gunn
Dannie Abse
Barbara Howes
Edith Sitwell
William Jay Smith
Howard Moss
Karl Shapiro
Donald Hall
James Merrill
Philip Booth
W.H. Auden
Daniel Hoffman
W.S. Merwin
Anne Sexton
Alastair Reid
Kingsley Ames
Elizabeth Bishop
W.S. Graham
George Barker
Box 3
Stanley Kunitz
T.S. Eliot
Theodore Roethke
Louis Macneice
William Carlos Williams
Conrad Aiken
Richard Wilbur
Robert Penn Warren
Richard Eberhart
Philip Larkin
D.J. Enright
Joseph LanglandCollection
Rollie McKenna