1998
Featured Poets
| Marjorie Agosín | Amiri Baraka |
| Coleman Barks | Lorna Dee Cervantes |
| Lucille Clifton | Bei Dao |
| Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill | Mark Doty |
| Deborah Garrison | Jane Hirshfield |
| Galway Kinnell | Stanley Kunitz |
| Kurtis Lamkin | Jesus Abraham "Tato" Laviera |
| Shirley Geok-Lin Lim | W.S. Merwin |
| Paul Muldoon | Sharon Olds |
| Alicia Ostriker | Marge Piercy |
| Robert Pinsky | Adrienne Rich |
Poets Among Us
| Rosa Alcala | Amina Baraka |
| Lee Briccetti | Anne Caston |
| Rick Chess | Fay Chiang |
| Denise Duhamel | Kim Francis |
| Phillip Fried | Sondra Gash |
| Regan Good | Joan Cusack Handler |
| Jean Hollander | Bob Holman |
| River Huston | Charles Johnson |
| Vickie Karp | Karl Kirchwey |
| M.L. Liebler | Sarah Lindsay |
| Jane Mead | Samuel Menashe |
| Judith Michaels | Christopher Parker |
| Elise Paschen | Lynn Powell |
| Lisa Rhoades | Liz Rosenberg |
| Barry Seiler | Jason Shinder |
| Madeline Tiger | William Wadsworth |
| BJ Ward | Herman Ward |
| Baron Wormser | Yictove |