Brooklyn College has a long tradition of attracting and producing award-winning poets. That impressive list includes artists like John Ashbery, who taught at Brooklyn College in the 1970s; Allen Ginsberg, who taught at the college from 1986 until his death in 1997; award-winning poet and author Sapphire ’95 M.F.A.; Professor Julie Agoos, an acclaimed poet and winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize; Associate Professor and Fulbright Scholar Ben Lerner, who teaches at the college and is a mentor to Pushcart Prize-winner Ocean Vuong ’12, a graduate of the B.F.A. Creative Writing Program and the recipient of an unprecedented $40,000 scholarship from the Elizabeth George Foundation; and Gracie Leavitt ’11, whose work, Monkeys, Minor Planet, Average Star, was recently published by Nightboat Books. To hear the work of Brooklyn College’s rising poetic stars, who participated in the biannual English Majors’ Open Mic, click the play button on the audio section located to the right above.
