2002
Featured Poets
| Taha Muhammad Ali | Amiri Baraka |
| Coleman Barks | Robert Bly |
| Lucille Clifton | Billy Collins |
| Mark Doty | Rita Dove |
| Robert Hass | Brenda Hillman |
| Edward Hirsch | Marie Howe |
| Stanley Kunitz | Li-Young Lee |
| Heather McHugh | Marilyn Nelson |
| Naomi Shihab Nye | Grace Paley |
| Robert Pinsky | Gerald Stern |
| Adam Zagajewski |
Poets Among Us
| Elizabeth Alexander | Indran Amirthanayagam |
Richard Blanco | Fran Castan |
| James Clark | Suzanne Cleary |
| Peter Cole | Miranda Field |
| Jan Freeman | George Harvilla |
| Everett Hoagland | Major Jackson |
| Susan Bauman Kinsolving | Sharon Kraus |
| Kate Light | Deena Linett |
| Wesley McNair | Peter Meinke |
| Jim Natal | Gerry Gomez Pearlberg |
| Kevin Pilkington | Kate Rushin |
| Lisa Sewell | A. Van Jordan |
| Ken Waldman | Joe Weil |
| Carolyn Wright |