Speakers List, 1962-2022

1962
W. D. Snodgrass (October 19)
I. L. Salomon (October 26)
Anthony Hecht (November 5)
X. J. Kennedy (December 12)

1963
Robert Pack (Jan. 11)
John Haag (Feb. 13)
Louis Simpson (Apr. 25)
Howard Nemerov (Oct. 16)
Adrienne Rich (Oct. 31)

1964
John Crowe Ransom (Feb. 14)
John Ciardi (Mar. 18)
Bernard Malamud (Apr. 10)
William Arrowsmith (Apr. 21)
Robert Creeley (May 27)
Marshall McLuhan and Gerald Stern (Oct. 16)
Richard Murphy (Oct. 22)
Alan Dugan (Nov. 5)
Reed Whittemore (Dec. 10)

1965
Roland Flint (Feb. 27)
Gary Snyder (Apr. 12)
Richard Eberhart (May 11)
Richard Wilbur (May 13)
Anne Sexton (Nov. 5)
James Dickey (Nov. 10)
Donald Justice (Nov. 16)

1966
John Berryman (Mar. 10)
Martha Heyneman (Mar. 16)
Charles Tomlinson (Apr. 15)
Bruce Berlind (Apr. 20)
Denise Levertov (May 9)
Walter Allen (Oct. 14)
Allen Curnow (Oct. 21)
George Starbuck (Nov. 4)
Terry Stokes (Nov. 29)

1967
W. S. Merwin (Mar. 15)
John Updike (Apr. 5)
David Wagoner (Apr. 13)
Galway Kinnell (Apr. 14)
Andrei Voznesensky (Apr. 27)
Charles Bell (May 11)
Vern Rutsala (Oct. 19)
James Wright (Nov. 14)

1968
Anthony Hecht (Jan. 9)
Ralph Ellison (Feb. 6)
W. S. Merwin (Mar. 1)
Robert Huff (Apr. 25)
Geroge Garrett (Oct. 24)
Raymond Patterson (Dec. 5)
Ned O'Gorman (Dec. 12)

1969
Roland Flint (Feb. 24)
Jonathan Williams (May 1)
Galway Kinnell (Nov. 29)
William Stafford (Nov. 14)
W. S. Merwin (Dec. 10)

1970
Robert Lowell (Feb. 18)
Michael Harper (Apr. 14)
John Ashbery (Apr. 27)

L. E. Sissman (May 7)
Anthony Thwaite (May 14)
Robert Fitzgerald (Oct. 9)
Thomas Kinsella (Oct. 20)
John Logan (Oct. 29)

1971
Gerard Malanga (Mar. 3)
Richard Wilbur (Mar. 11)
Ted Hughes and Richard Murphy (Mar. 22)

William Meredith (Apr. 5)
Deborah Westburg and Miriam Palmer (May 10)
William Demby (Oct. 5)
Marvin Bell (Oct. 26)
Thom Gunn (Nov. 30)

1972
John Ashbery (Feb. 25)
Michael Dennis Browne (Mar. 2)
Mona Van Duyn (Mar. 14)
Jerome Rothenberg (Apr. 13)
Diana Wakoski (Apr. 21)
W. D. Snodgrass (May 10)
William Pitt Root (Oct. 26)
Gary Snyder (Nov. 9)

1973
Charles Simic (Feb. 8)
William Matthews and James Bertolino (Feb. 28)
George Barker (Apr. 5)
James Merrill (Apr. 9)
William Everson (Oct. 26)
W. H. Auden Memorial Reading (Nov. 8)
- Juliet McGrath
- Doris Eder
- Joseph Summers
- Anthony Hecht
- Jarold Ramsey

1974
W. S. Merwin (Jan. 30)
Hannah Green (Feb. 26)
James Tate (Mar. 5)
George Starbuck (Mar. 21)
Stanley Plumly and Jon Anderson (Mar. 28)
Erica Jong (Apr. 3)
Jesse Hill Ford (Sept. 24)
Richard Hugu (Oct. 16)
Maxine Kumin (Oct. 29)
Terry Stokes (Nov. 19)
William Gass (Dec. 5)

1975
Irving Feldman (Jan. 27)
Robert Hayden (Feb. 27)
William Stafford (Mar. 11)
Donald Finkel (Apr. 2)
Michael Ondaatje (Apr. 28)

1976
Alicia Ostriker (Feb. 25)
Constantine Zuminsky (Mar. 22)
C. K. Williams (Apr. 6)
Duane Niatum (Oct. 26)
Carl Dennis (Nov. 18)
Douglas Crase (Dec. 9)

1977
Richard Howe (Jan. 27)
Alison Lurie (Apr. 5)
Philip Dow (Apr. 12)
John Ashbery (Apr. 22)
Jarold Ramsey (Nov. 17)
Andrew Glaze (Dec. 8)

1978
Stephen Sandy (Feb. 23)
Ann Deagon (Mar. 23)
William Heyen (Mar. 30)
Elizabeth Bishop (Oct. 24)
Jack Hodgins (Nov. 7)
Sandra MacPherson (Nov. 9)

1979
Philip Schultz (Mar. 22)
John McGahern (Apr. 3)
Dan Masterson (Oct. 16)
Elizabeth Bishop Memorial Reading (Oct. 22)
- Vicki Cooley
- Anthony Hecht
- Jarold Ramsey
- Charles Flowers
- U. T. Summers
- Joseph Summers
Joseph Brodsky (Nov. 16)
Jon Stallworthy (Nov. 29)

1980
Derek Walcott (Feb. 8)
Gwendolyn Brooks (Feb. 28)
Linda Allardt (Apr. 4)
Diane Ackerman (Oct. 9)
Edward Albee (Oct. 17)
Thomas McGrath (Nov. 6)
William Meredith (Nov. 16)
Robert Pack (Nov. 20)

1981
Helen Vendler (Apr. 2)
William Gass (Apr. 5)
Jon Silkin (Apr. 6)
Stephen Spender (Sept. 9)
Galway Kinnell (Dec. 6)
Donald Hall (Dec. 7)

1982
Toni Cade Bambara (Apr. 7)

1983
Kim Stafford (Apr. 12)
Robertson Davies (Apr. 26)

1984
Michael Harper (w/Black History Month) (Feb. 4)
Judith Kitchen and Jim LaVilla-Havelin (Feb. 5)
Nancy Willard (Oct. 12)
Marvin Bell (Oct. 24)
Sydney Lea (Nov. 5)

1985
Diane Wakoski (Sept. 18)
Marvin Bell (Oct. 22)
Dannie Abse (Oct. 30)
Thomas Gavin (Nov. 12)

1986
Stanley Plumly (Apr. 10)
Gary Miranda (Apr. 17)
Robert Houston (Oct. 8)
William Stafford (Oct. 15)

1987
Katha Pollitt (Feb. 4)
Joanna Scott (Apr. 1)
Linda Pastan (Apr. 7)
Plutzik Honorary Reading (Apr. 24)
- Linda Allardt
- Neil Baldwin
- William Heyen
- Jarold Ramsey
- A. Poulin
- Anthony Piccione
William Gass (Sept. 24)
W. S. Merwin (Nov. 9)
Dana Gioia (Nov. 12)

1988
Joanna Scott (Jan. 29)
Thomas Gavin (w/"Works in Progress")
- David Mason
- Jarold Ramsey
Andrea Barrett (Mar. 30)
Orson Scott Card (Apr. 5)
William Stafford (Oct. 12)
Angela Carter (Nov. 10)
Allen Dessen and Joan Swift (Nov. 16)
Mary Cappello (Dec. 7)

1989
Robert Pack (Mar. 23)
Alicia Ostriker (Nov. 1)
Christopher Merrill (Nov. 9)
Alison Lurie (Nov. 16)
Raymond Federman (Dec. 6)

1990
Alice Fulton (Jan. 15)
Barbara Jordan (Jan. 24)
Kim Stafford (Mar. 1)
Jarold Ramsey (Mar. 6)
Nicholson Baker (Apr. 18)
William Heyen (Oct.)
Richard Howard (Dec. 3)

1991
Joan Murray (Feb. 12)
Frederick Busch (Apr. 1)
Marilyn Krysl (Apr. 30)
Mary Caponegro (Sept. 23)
Thomas Lux (Oct. 16)
Jay Wright (Nov. 5)
Sarah Higley (Nov. 19)

1992
Michael Westlake (Mar. 2)
Karen Tei Yamashita (Kafka Winner) (Apr. 3)
Valerie Martin (Kafka Winner) (Apr. 3)
Robert Pinsky (Apr. 7)
Katha Pollitt (Apr. 8)
Thomas Gavin (w/"Works in Progress") (Sept. 29)
- Joanna Scott
- Jarold Ramsey
- Susan Holahan
Richard Wilbur (Oct. 16)
Paul West and Diane Ackerman (Nov. 5)

1993
David Mason (Feb. 4)
Toni Cade Bambara (Feb. 17)
Derek Walcott (Feb. 17)
Joseph Brodsky (Feb. 17)
William Matthews (Mar. 3)
Ted Hughes (Mar. 25)
Ruth Stone (Apr. 15)
Paul Zimmer (Oct. 15)
Steven Millhauser (Oct. 27)
Maureen Howard (Nov. 3)

1994
Bei Dao (Feb. 22)
Hugo Hamilton (Mar. 18)
Clayton Eshleman (Mar. 25)
Diane Glancy (Apr. 20)
Irving Feldman (Oct. 6)
Hugo Hamilton (Oct. 20)
Lawrence Raab (Nov. 8)
Harryette Mullen (Nov. 15)

1995
Michael Collier (Feb. 16)
Yusef Komunyakaa (Mar. 21)
Elizabeth Woody (Apr. 11)
Padgett Powell (Apr. 26)
Rennie McQuilkin (Sept. 25)
Alice Mattison (Oct. 12)
Christopher Merrill (Nov. 16)

1996
Thomas Gavin (w/"Works in Progress") (Feb. 6)
- Barbara Jordan
- Jarold Ramsey
- Sarah Higley
- James Longenbach
Sascha Feinstein (Mar. 20)
Deborah Tall (Mar. 27)
MurMur (Oct. 2)
Charles Wright (Oct. 25)
Joanna Scott (w/"Works in Progress") (Nov. 14)
- Thomas Gavin
- James Longenbach
- Jarold Ramsey
- Sarah Higley
- Barbara Jordan

1997
Ruth Kessler (Feb. 12)
- Emil Homerin
- Leah Zazulyer Watson
Andrea Barrett (Feb. 27)
Edward Hirsch (Mar. 26)
Marint Espada (Apr. 17)
Eric Pankey (Oct. 2)
Kate Braverman (Oct. 16)

1998
Barbara Jordan (Mar. 19)
William Heyen and Jarold Ramsey (Apr. 9)
Jorie Graham (Apr. 14)
George Saunders (Oct. 15)
James Longenbach (Oct. 29)
Carolyn Forché (Nov. 18)

1999
Jason Sommer (Feb. 12)
Anthony Hecht (Apr. 6)
Linda Gregerson (Oct. 22)
Ellen Akins (Nov. 8)
Thom Ward (Dec. 1)

2000
Gerald Stern (Apr. 17)
Neil Baldwin (Sept. 28
Mary Cappello (Oct. 3)
Galway Kinnell (Nov. 29)

2001
Joy Harjo (Feb. 15)
Li-Young Lee (Mar. 15)
Kathleen Wakefield (Mar. 28)
Linda Allardt (Apr. 12)
Geoffrey Hill (Apr. 19)
Robert Pinsky (Oct. 12)
Ellen Bryant Voigt (Oct. 30)
Nathaniel Mackey (Nov. 29)

2002
Maureen Howard (Feb. 26)
Christine Hume (Mar. 21)
J. M. Coetzee (Apr. 23)
Nadine Gordimer (Apr. 23)
John Hollander (Sept. 25)
Salman Rushie (Meliora Weekend) (Oct. 12)
Clayton Eshleman (Oct. 16)
Carl Phillips (Oct. 30)
Anthony Hecht (NYC-Plutzik 40th)(Nov. 15)

2003
C. K. Williams (Mar. 5)
Rikki Ducornet (Apr. 1)
James Longenbach (Apr. 21)
Rick Moody (Apr. 23)
John Ashbery (Meliora Weekend) (Oct. 11)
Heather McHugh (Oct. 28)
Sally Keith (Nov. 18)
Lydia Davis (Dec. 3)

2004
Samuel R. Delany (Mar. 4)
Shelley Jackson (Apr. 9)
Fanny Howe (Apr. 21)
Rita Dove (Meliora Weekend)(Oct. 9)
Ben Marcus (Oct. 25)
Donald Revell (Nov. 3)

2005
Daniel Donaghy (Mar. 1)
Alan Shapiro (Mar. 15)
Kathryn Davis (Mar. 29)
Louise Gluck (Apr. 6)
Linda Bierds (Apr. 18)
Beverly Donofrio (Sept. 19)
Michael Palmer (Sept. 27)
Tom Piazza (Oct. 12)
Joanna Scott (w/"Works in Progress")(Nov. 7)
Madison Smartt Bell (Meliora Weeking) (Oct. 22)
William Gass (w/"Works in Progress")(Nov. 7)

2006
Brian Evenson (Mar. 7)
Forrest Gander & C. D. Wright (w/"Works in Progress")(Mar. 21)
Ilya Kaminsky (Apr. 11)
Bin Ramke (Apr. 13)
Dan Beachy-Quick and Matthea Harvey (Apr. 27)
Vijay Seshadri (Meliora Weekend) (Oct. 7)
Ralph Black (Oct. 17)
Dan Chaisson (Nov. 7)

2007
Rosanna Warren (Feb. 13)
Percival Everett (Mar. 1)
Susan Howe (Mar. 21)
Margaret Atwood (Mar. 26)
James Longenbach (Apr. 17)
David Mason (Sept. 24)
David Leavitt (Meliora Weekend)(Oct. 20)
Tom Sleigh (Oct. 30)
Anthony Giardina (Nov. 13)
Robert and Peg Boyers (Dec. 11)

2008
Claudia Rankine (Mar. 6)
John Koethe (Mar. 27)
David Treuer (Apr. 8)
Bradford Morrow (Apr. 22)
Susan Stewart (Sept. 25)
Jonathan Franzen (Meliora Weekend) (Oct. 18)
Edward Hirsch (Nov. 12)

2009
Mary Gaitskill (Mar. 2)
Frank Bidart (Mar. 23)
Anthony Doerr (Apr. 8)
J. Grotz; J. Longenbach, J. Scott, and S. Schottenfeld (Meliora Weekend)(Oct. 10)
Tony Hoagland (Oct. 22)
ZZ Packer (Nov. 10)

2010
Steve Erickson (Mar. 23)
C. Dale Young (Apr. 14)
Ellen Bryant Voigt (Sept. 21)
Adam Zagajewski (Meliora Weekend, Oct. 16)
James Longenbach (Oct. 27)
Kevin Brockmeier (Nov. 11)

2011
Stacey D'Erasmo (Mar. 24)
Daniel Mendelsohn (Apr. 6)
Jennifer Grotz (Apr. 21)
Yusef Komunyakaa (Oct. 13)
J. Grotz; J. Longenbach, J. Scott, and S. Schottenfeld (Meliora Weekend) (Oct. 22)
Eavan Boland (Nov. 10)
Christopher Ricks (Nov. 30)

2012
Susan Stewart (Mar. 12)
Nigel Maister (Mar. 26)
Philip Levine (Apr. 12)
Rosanna Warren (Apr. 24)
Henri Cole (Sep. 18)
Jaimy Gordon (Oct. 11)
Tracy K. Smith (Nov. 13)

2013
Dana Spiotta (Feb. 5)
Ellen Bryant Voigt (Mar. 5)
Peter Ho Davies (Apr. 23)
Louise Glück (Oct. 12)
Aleksandar Hemon (Oct. 29)
Sally Keith (Nov. 14)

2014
Ken Kalfus (Feb. 12)
Bruce Smith (Mar. 6)
Yiyun Li (Apr. 16)
Peter Cole (Oct. 7)
J. Grotz; J. Longenbach, J. Scott, and S. Schottenfeld (Meliora Weekend) (Oct. 18)
Susan Choi (Nov. 11)

2015
Katherin Larson (Jan. 27)
Stuart Dybek (Feb. 12)
Terrance Hayes (Apr. 9)
Denis Johnson (Oct. 9)
Mary Jo Bang (Oct. 29)
Maud Casey (Nov. 19)

2016
Tracy Kidder (Mar. 31)
Brock Clark (Apr. 7)
Michael Collier (Apr. 19)
Jennifer Grotz (Sept. 13)
Richard Blanco (Oct. 7)
Dinaw Mengestu (Oct. 25)
Lauren Groff (Nov. 30)

2017
A. Van Jordan (Feb. 16)
Brooks Haxton (Mar. 23)
Nnedi Okorafor (Apr. 25)
Martha Rhodes (Sept. 28)
Akhil Sharma (Oct. 23)
James Longenbach (Nov. 30)

2018
Jim Shepard (Mar. 6)
Ishion Hutchinson (Apr. 10)
Rodrigo Fresán (Apr. 24)
Carla Guelfenbein (Sept. 25)
Ben Fountain (Oct. 6)
Donald Revell (Nov. 6)

2019
Patrick Phillips (Feb. 5)
Vievee Francis (Mar. 5)
Claire Messud (Apr. 1)
A.E. Stallings (Nov. 19)
Christopher Castellani (Oct. 30)

2021
Catherine Lacey (Nov. 15)

2022
Sally Keith (Mar. 1)
Alice McDermott (Apr. 6)