Yusef Komunyakaa--April 12, 2000
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Heather McHugh--November 8, 2000
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Carolyn Forche--April 11, 2001
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Paul Muldoon--October 19, 2001
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Stephen Dunn--May 7, 2002
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Cornelius Eady--November 6, 2002
Read an interview and poems by Eady in the Blackbird journal
Eavan Boland--April 25, 2003
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Tony Hoagland--October 1, 2003
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Glyn Maxwell--April 28, 2004
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Carl Phillips--April 20, 2005
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Billy Collins--May 4, 2005
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Rosanna Warren--October 26, 2005
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C. K. Williams--April 12, 2006
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Eamon Grennan--February 21, 2007
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Louise Gluck--May 17, 2007
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Dave Smith--October 24, 2007
Read an article by Smith in Blackbird journal
David Ferry--April 23, 2008
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Major Jackson--November 5, 2008
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Patricia Smith--April 22, 2009
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Naomi Shihab Nye--October 22, 2009
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