Previous Participants
2025
Victoria Chang
Carl Phillips
Christian Wiman
2024
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Major Jackson
Ruben Quesada
Tracy K. Smith
Allison Benis White
2023
Sumita Chakraborty
A. Van Jordan
Shane McCrae
2022
Chad Bennett
Vievee Francis
Todd Hearon
Ilya Kaminsky
2021
Forrest Gander
Meghan O'Rourke
Evie Shockley
Layli Long Soldier
2019
Juan Felipe Herrera
Donald Revell
Mary Szybist
Meg Tyler
2018
Kwame Dawes
Dana Gioia
Mark Jarman
Lisa Russ Spaar
2017
Caitríona O’Reilly
Micheal O’Siadhail
Adrian Rice
Margaret Mills Harper
2016
Amaranth Borsuk
Nicole Cooley
Ernest Suarez
Kevin Young
2015
Simon Armitage
Neil Corcoran
Terrance Hayes
Susan Wheeler
2014
Andrew Hudgins
Valzhna Mort
Ronald Schuchard
Christian Wiman
2013
Seamus Heaney
James Fenton
Henry Hart
Les Murray
Bobby C. Rogers
Tracy K. Smith
2012
Stephen Dunn
Michael Longley
Jay Parini
A. E. Stallings
2011
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
George Lensing
Susan Stewart
Natasha Trethewey
2010
Charles Altieri
Carol Frost
John Koethe
Stanley Plumly
2009
Peter Fallon
Donald Hall
David Lehman
C.D. Wright
2008
Langdon Hammer
Li-Young Lee
Gary Snyder
Jean Valentine
2007
Michael Harper
James Longenbach
Derek Walcott
Rosanna Warren
2006
Bonnie Costello
Heather McHugh
Elizabeth Spires
C. K. Williams
2005
Maxine Kumin
Paul Muldoon
Michael Schmidt
Maura Stanton
2004
Denis Donoghue
Galway Kinnell
Linda Pastan
2003
Frank Bidart
Molly Peacock
Robert Pinsky
Christopher Ricks
David St. John
2002
Scott Cairns
Billy Collins
Jonathan Galassi
Jane Hirshfield
Marge Piercy
2001
Robert Hass
Linda Hogan
Christopher Merrill
W.S. Merwin
Alicia Ostriker
2000
Robert Bly
Albert Gelpi
Joy Harjo
Carolyn Kizer
Naomi Shihab Nye
Charles Simic
1999
Joanne Feit Diehl
Yusef Komunyakaa
Philip Levine
Adrienne Rich
Gary Soto
1998
Eavan Boland
Peter Davison
Linda Gregerson
Donald Justice
Cathy Song
1997
Louise Glück
Marjorie Perloff
Mark Strand
1996
Calvin Bedient
Carolyn Forché
Charles Wright
1995
Anthony Hecht
Mona Van Duyn