The Joshua Ringel Memorial Fund memorializes CTY alumnus Joshua Ringel and his mother, Barbara, supporting a free annual poetry reading in Baltimore for both lovers of poetry, and those who wish to learn to love it as Joshua did. Josh's teacher, the renowned poet Kenneth Koch, gave the inaugural Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading in 1998. Since then, eleven other distinguished poets, including Billy Collins, John Ashbery, Sharon Olds, and Galway Kinnell, have lent their voices to this remarkable series. A gift by Josh's father, Mel Ringel, in 2004 created an endowment at Johns Hopkins, with a goal of sustaining the Reading in perpetuity. Donate now! Enter your gift in the Gift Designation drop-down and select Joshua Ringel Memorial Fund (6th entry). To be added to the Ringel mailing list, email us, become a fan on Facebook, or send a note with your address directly to: Johns Hopkins University - Center for Talented Youth (CTY)
The Joshua Ringel Memorial Fund
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| | | Known as a “poet of witness,” Carolyn Forché has garnered international recognition for her work since 1976. A Guggenheim, three NEA fellowships, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award are among her many honors. Forché, along with special guest Nikola Madzirov, will give the 2011 Ringel Reading on Sunday, April 10, at 5 p.m. in the Baltimore Museum of Art's Meyerhoff Auditorium. |
| | | Carolyn Forché reading at the Split This Rock Poetry Festival |
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| | “Ferocious, luminous and important," says renowned poet Mary Oliver of Mark Doty, the only American poet to have won Great Britain's T.S. Eliot Prize. Doty's Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, won the 2008 National Book Award. Doty gave the 2010 reading in the Baltimore Museum of Art's Meyerhoff Auditorium on Sunday, April 11.
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