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Previous Participants

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

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Waco, TX 76798-7404
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beallpoetry@baylor.edu
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