Welcome to the official website of poet Amy Clampitt. 

Clampitt’s first published poem appeared in The New Yorker in 1978. In 1983, at age 63, her first volume of poetry, The Kingfisher, was published by Alfred A. Knopf to great acclaim.

In the decade that followed, she published five books of poetry. Her last book, A Silence Opens, appeared in 1994. Her Collected Poems was published posthumously in 1997.

News from the Amy Clampitt Fund

Marge Piercy Reads at Berkshire Museum on August 15

August 1, 2008 : Deadline for submission of Applications for the 2010 Residency.

Congratulations to John Hennessy (2007-2008), Paula Bohince (2008), and Katrina Vandenberg (2008-2009), this year's recipients of the Amy Clampitt Residency Award. Six to twelve month residencies at the Amy Clampitt house near Lenox, Massachusetts, are awarded annually to poets and others furthering the cause of poetry. Learn more about the Residency.

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On this site, you can read a selection of Amy Clampitt's writings, learn about her life, and find out about upcoming events and the Amy Clampitt Residency in the Berkshires.

Photo: Amy Clampitt in London, 1949