past festivals
- 2011 – TPF29 – Poetry In Action
- 2010 – TPF28 – Poetry Where You Are
- 2009 – TPF27 – Poetry and Healing
- 2008 – TPF26 – Poetry and Voice
- 2007 – TPF25 – Poetry and Home
- 2006
- 2005 – TPF23 – Poetry and Painting
- 2004 – TPF22 – Poetry and Music
- 2003 – TPF21 – Poetry and Film
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Previous Themes and Guests
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| I. 1983
1st Anniversary |
II. 1984
Los Cantos des Sonora |
III. 1985
Who Is Singing Here? |
| Tess Gallagher | Dick Bakken | Barbara Anderson |
| Tony Hoagland | David Chorlton | Rita Dove |
| David Ignatow | Drummond Hadley | Jeremy Ingalls |
| Rolly Kent | Will Inman | Denis Johnson |
| Danny Lopez | Nancy Mairs | N. Scott Momaday |
| Susan North | Miguel Mendez | Greg Pape |
| Alberto Rios | Sheila Murphy | Marina Rivera |
| William Pitt Root | Michael Rattee | Ken Smith |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | Peggy Schumacker | Territory Dance Theater |
| Gary Snyder | Richard Shelton | |
| Diane Wakowski | Peter Wild | |
| Ofelia Zepeda | ||
| IV. 1986
Politics |
V. 1987
Public & Private Voice |
VII. 1988
Where Were You When You Found Your Voice? |
| Arizona Dance Theater | Linda Gregg | Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge |
| Sandra Demerest | Senator Eugene McCarthy | Karen Brennen |
| Denise Levertov | Czeslaw Milosz | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Dorothy Lykes | Hilda Morley | Andrew Hudgins |
| W.S. Merwin | Steve Orlen | Sheila Murphy |
| Simon Ortiz | Michael Palmer | bp Nichols |
| The Dark Bob | Alberto Rios | Tenth Street Dance Works |
| VII. 1989
Voice to Video |
VIII. 1990
Building Bridges |
IX. 1991
Jazz |
| Andrei Cordrescu | Edward Brathwaite | Amiri Baraka |
| Nathaniel Mackey | Robert Creeley | Allen Ginsberg |
| Felipe Molina | Meg Davis | Joy Harjo |
| Wendy Rose | Daphne Marlatt | Cynthia Hogue |
| Nancy Solomon | Jane Miller | Cecil Taylor |
| Luci Tapahanso | Ron Silliman | Anne Waldman |
| Nathaniel Tarn | ||
| X. 1992
Ironwood |
XI. 1993
Translation |
XII. 1994
Re-visioning History |
| Barbara Anderson | T. Begley | Susan Howe |
| Dick Bakken | Olga Broumas | Yusef Komunyakaa |
| Caryl Clement | Carolyn Forché | Nathaniel Mackey |
| Michael Cuddihy | Alberto Rios | Demetria Martinez |
| Tess Gallagher | Jerome Rothenberg | Czeslaw Milosz |
| David Ignatow | Rose Marie Waldrop | Derek Walcott |
| Michael Palmer | Ofelia Zepeda | |
| Agha Shahid Ali | ||
| XIII. 1995
Love |
XIV. 1996
Lies |
XV. 1997
Loss |
| Franciso X. Alarcon | Ai | Barbara Cully |
| Rafael Campo | Sherman Alexie | Jon Davis |
| Diane di Prima | Frank Bidart | Mark Doty |
| Marilyn Hacker | Eavan Boland | Carolyn Kizer |
| Jane Miller | Alison Deming | Rick Noguchi |
| Boyer Rickel | Benjamin Alire Saenz | Daisy Zamora |
| XVI. 1998
Geography |
XVII. 1999
The Sacred |
XVIII. 2000
Silence |
| Jimmy Santiago Baca | Charles Bernstein | Wanda Coleman |
| Rebecca Byrkit | Robert Bly | Juan Felipe Herrera |
| Marilyn Chin | Jane Hirshfield | Gerald Stern |
| Garrett Hongo | Ramson Lomatewama | Arthur Sze |
| Cynthia Macdonald | Pat Mora | Laura Tohe |
| Charles Simic | David Shapiro | Jean Valentine |
| XIX. 2001
Food |
XX. 2002
Conservation |
XXI. 2003
Film |
| Ana Castillo | Charles Alexander | Gillian Conoley |
| Russell Edson | Sherman Alexie | Fandango 8 |
| Gary Mex Glazner | Gary Mex Glazner | Gary Mex Glazner |
| Donald Hall | Jane Miller | Jorie Graham |
| Myung Mi Kim | Alberto Rios | Brandy Lintecum |
| Maxine Kumin | Gary Snyder | Rita Maria Magdaleno |
| David Ray | Anne Waldman | Virgil Suarez |
| Sonia Sanchez | John Yau | |
| XXII. 2004
Music |
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| Daniel Coleman | ||
| Gary Mex Glazner | ||
| The Headless Buddhas | ||
| Eliana Rivero | ||