2009 Ceremonial

Ceremonial Stage Shot, May 20, 2009
Photo: J. Henry Fair

(bottom to top, left to right)

First Row   Will Barnet, Jules Feiffer, Shirley Hazzard, Louis Auchincloss, David Adjaye, Ezra Laderman, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Stephen Sondheim, Suzanne Farrell, J. D. McClatchy, Gordon Leary, Karlan Judd, Rosanna Warren, Louise Glück, Robert Pinsky, Chuck Close, Mark Strand, Reynolds Price, Gregory Rabassa, Edward Albee, Leon Kirchner

Second Row   John Ashbery, Romulus Linney, Paula Fox, Donald Keene, Ned Rorem, George Saunders, Sharon Cameron, Joy Williams, Paul Farley, Paul Muldoon, Janet Malcolm, Scott Ethier, Jeff Hughes, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Charles Bock, Allan Gurganus, Peter Campion, Jorie Graham, Eliza Griswold, Charles Cajori, Philip Pearlstein, David Levine, E. L. Doctorow, Cynthia Ozick

Third Row   Elizabeth Spencer, Richard Howard, Ron Currie, Jr., Michael Collier, Rilla Askew, Tracy Letts, Richard Price, Judy Pfaff, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Lois Dodd, David Gordon, Andrew Norman, Edmund White, Susan Stewart, Yusef Komunyakaa, Marie Ponsot, Denis Johnson, D. Nurkse, Charles Simic, Richard Wilbur, Richard Artschwager

Fourth Row   Martin Puryear, Duncan Johnson, Stephen Antonakos, Gregory Crewdson, John Dubrow, Susan Jane Walp, Elisa Jensen, William Bailey, Varujan Boghosian, Carolyn O'Brien, Michael Gilbertson, Robert Beaser, Steven Stucky, Augusta Read Thomas, Andrew Waggoner, Barbara White, Bernard Rands, Lanford Wilson, Edward Hoagland, Philip Levine, Renata Adler

Fifth Row   Rackstraw Downes, Lennart Anderson, Hilary Harkness, Henry N. Cobb, Jeffrey Kipnis, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Russell Banks, A. R. Gurney, Matthew Barnson, Ryan Gallagher, Mario Davidovsky, Samuel Adler, Stephen Hartke, David Gompper, Gunther Schuller, Sean Shepherd, T. J. Anderson, Ray Lustig, Yu-Hui Chang, Yehudi Wyner

Sixth Row   Wolf Kahn, Richard Hunt, Jane Freilicher, Paul Resika, Joel Shapiro, Peter Eisenman, Stan Allen, Hugh Hardy, Wendell Burnette, Billie Tsien, Steven Holl, Tod Williams, Juhani Pallasmaa, Shulamit Ran, Frederic Rzewski, Martin Bresnick, David Lang, Laura Elise Schwendinger, Kurt Stallmann, Victoria Bond, David Del Tredici, John Harbison, Jack Beeson, Christopher Rouse