1988
| Diane Ackerman | Ed Sanders |
| Etheridge Knight | Toi Derricotte |
| Miguel Algarín | William Stafford |
| W.S. Merwin | Carolyn Forché |
| Robert Bly | Gerald Stern |
| Sharon Olds | Sandra Gilbert |
| Dennis Brutus | Ruth Stone |
| Octavio Paz | Galway Kinnell |
| Lucille Clifton | |
| Renée Ashley | Barbara Ungar |
| Pablo Medina | Cheryl Clarke |
| Joan Baranow | Afaa Weaver |
| Walter Mosley | Denise Collins |
| Rick Benjamin | Hilde Weisert |
| Lynn Powell | Daniel Hill |
| Karen Blomain | Jack Wiler |
| Edwin Romond | Laurie Kirk-Mazzoli |
| Laura Boss | Herman Ward |
| Bettye T. Spinner | Daniel Lusk |
| John Canaday | Peter Wood |
| Juanita Tobin | Michael Madonick |
| Robert Carnevale | |
