(Apologies for any errors, including names spelled incorrectly. This is an incomplete list. Feel free to contact us with corrections.)
2020: Poetry to Sustain Us
- Sean Avery
- Bojan Louis
- Diana Marie Delgado
- Sylvia Chan
- Pam Uschuk
2019: Poetry As Gesture
- Angel Dominguez
- Baruch Porras-Hernandez
- Michael Klein
- Aura Valdes
- Kristen Nelson
2018: Festival Poetry is Action
- Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
- Teré Fowler-Chapman
- Kay Ulanday Barrett
- Isaac Kirkman
- CAConrad
2017: Poetry & People
- Jericho Brown
- Dr. Ofelia Zepeda
- Erín Moure
- Enrique García Naranjo
- Natalie Diaz
2016: Poetry & Purpose
- Mahogany L. Browne
- Patrick Rosal
- Emi Mahmoud
- Tanaya Winder
- Ken Babstock
- Ariana Brown
2015: Breaking the Border
- Claudia Rankine
- Bob Holman
- Gabriela Jauregui
- Hieu Minh Nguyen
- Edyka Chilomé
2014: Poetry at Play
- Harryette Mullen
- Xavier Cavazos
- RC Weslowski
- Allison Hedge Coke
- Sherwin Bitsui
- Kelvyn Bell
2013
- Laynie Browne
- Natalie Diaz
- Thomas Sayers Ellis
- Bill Knott
2012
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Karyna McGlynn
- Ander Monson
- Patricia Smith
2011
- Niki Herd
- Jeffrey McDaniel
- Danny Solis
- Luci Tapahanso
2009
- Brian Turner
- Andrea Gibson
2007
- Jefferson Carter
2006
- Ayisha Knight
- Benjamin Alire Saenz
- Wanda Coleman
- Verbobala Spoken Video
- Rebecca Seiferle
- Sherwin Bitsui
- Paul Fisher
2002
- Charles Alexander
- Sherman Alexie
- Andrew Caroll
- Gary Mex Glazner
- Mary Oliver
- Jane Miller
- Alberto Álvaro Ríos
- Gary Snyder
- Anne Waldman
2001
- Maxine Kumin
2000
- Wanda Coleman
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Barbara Guest
- Juan Felipe Herrera
- Rex Lee Jim
- Steve Kowit
- Philip Levine
- Sharon Olds
- Nancy Mairs
- Janice Mirikitani
- Gerald Stern
- Arthur Sze
- Laura Tohe
- Jean Valentine
- Berry Wendell
- Charles Wright
- John Yau
1999
- Yehuda Amichai
- Charles Bernstein
- Robert Bly
- Jeffrey Brooks
- Martin Espada
- Louise Gluck
- Jane Hirshfield
- Robert Hunter
- Ramson Lomatewama
- Pat Mora
- Thylias Moss
- Sharon Olds
- Mary Oliver
- Adrienne Rich
- William Pitt Root
- David Shapiro
- Patricia Smith
- Gary Sherman Snyder
- Elizabeth Woody
- Charles Wright
1998
- Jimmy Baca
- Becky Byrkit
- Marilyn Chin
- Alison Deming
- Garret Hongo
- Cynthia Macdonald
- Thylias Moss
- Charles Simic
1997
- Barbara Cully
- Jon Davis
- Mark Doty
- Lyn Hejinian
- Mary Howe
- Carolyn Kizer
- Rick Noguchi
- Charles Simic
- Elizabeth Woody
- Daisy Zamara
1996
- Ai
- Agha Shahid Ali
- Sherman Alexie
- Frank Bidart
- Eavan Boland
- Allison Deming
- Benjamin Saenz
1995
- Francisco X. Alarcon
- Yehuda Amichai
- David Baker
- Rafael Campo
- Diane Di Prima
- Marilyn Hacker
- June Jordan
- Jane Miller
- Sharon Olds
- Boyer Rickel
1994
- Maya Angelou
- Gloria Anzaldua
- Sandra Cisneros
- Diana Di Prima
- Susan Howe
- Yosef Komunyakaa
- Nathaniel Mackey
- Demetria Martinez
- Czeslaw Milosz
- Barbara Penn
- Leslie Silko
- Derek Walcott
1993
- Agha Shahid Ali
- Robert Bly
- Carolyn Forche
- Stephen Mitchell
- Bruce Noll
- Alberto Rios
- Jerome Rothenberg
- Rosemarie Waldrup
- Ofelia Zepeda
1992
- Agha Shahid Ali
- Barbara Anderson
- Dick Bakken
- Wendell Berry
- Robert Bly
- Lucille Clifton
- Rita Dove
- Tess Gallagher
- David Ignatow
- William Merwin
- Michael Palmer
- Gary Snyder
1991
- Amiri Baraka
- Allen Ginsberg
- Joy Harjo
- Cynthia Hogue
- Cecil Taylor
- Anne Waldman
1990
- Robert Creeley
- Meg Davis
- Seamus Heaney
- Daphne Marlatt
- Jane Miller
- Wendy Rose
- Ron Silliman
- Nathaniel Tarn
1989
- Ron Silliman
- Nathaniel Tarn
1988
- Mei-Mei Bersenbrugge
- b.p. Nichol
1987
- Diane Wakoski
- Eugene McCarthy
- Alberto Rios
1986
- Denise Levertov
- Dorothy Lykes
- Simon Ortiz
- The Dark Bob
1985
- Barbara Anderson
- Christopher Carrol
- Rita Dove
- Jeremy Ingalls
- Denis Johnson
- N. Scott Momaday
- Greg Pape
- Marina Rivera
- Ken Smith
- Territory Dance Theatre
1984
- Will Inman
1983
- Ofelia Zepeda
- David Ignatow
- Alberto Álvaro Ríos
- Gary Snyder