1996
Featured Poets
| Yehuda Amichai | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Robert Creeley | Mark Doty |
| Allen Ginsberg | Joy Harjo |
| Robert Hass | Brenda Hillman |
| Marie Howe | Louis Jenkins |
| Brigit Pegeen Kelly | Yusef Komunyakaa |
| Lê Thi Diem Thúy | Li-Young Lee |
| Philip Levine | Thylias Moss |
| Carol Muske | Pattiann Rogers |
| Gerald Stern | Jean Valentine |
Poets Among Us
| Renée Ashley | Judith Baumel |
| Christopher Buckley | Dina Coe |
| Edmund Conti | Cornelius Eady |
| Martin Jude Farawell | Miranda Field |
| Diane Gallo | Eric Gamalinda |
| Michael Glaser | Colette Inez |
| Ozzie Jones | Adele Kenny |
| Betty Lies | Rick Lyon |
| Mary Makofske | Marilyn Mohr |
| Letta Simone-Nefert Neely | Rosalind Pace |
| Wanda S. Praisner | Bino A. Realuyo |
| Len Roberts | Cheryl Savageau |
| Vijay Seshadri | Hal Sirowitz |
| Terese Svoboda | Brian Swann |
| Jack Wiler | Wai-Lim Yip |
| Nina Israel Zucker |