Yusef Komunyakaa--April 12, 2000
View the Academy of American Poets page on Komunyakaa
Heather McHugh--November 8, 2000
View the Poetry Foundation page on McHugh
Carolyn Forche--April 11, 2001
Read selected poems by Forche on the Poetry Foundation website
Paul Muldoon--October 19, 2001
View Muldoon's website
Stephen Dunn--May 7, 2002
View Dunn's website
Cornelius Eady--November 6, 2002
Read an interview and poems by Eady in the Blackbird journal
Eavan Boland--April 25, 2003
View the Academy of American Poets page on Boland
Tony Hoagland--October 1, 2003
View the Poetry Foundation page on Hoagland
Glyn Maxwell--April 28, 2004
Read a biography and criticism of Maxwell on the Contemporary Writers website
Carl Phillips--April 20, 2005
View the Academy of American Poets page on Phillips
Billy Collins--May 4, 2005
View the Academy of American Poets page on Collins
Rosanna Warren--October 26, 2005
Read Warren's webpage at Boston University
C. K. Williams--April 12, 2006
Read an interview with Williams given on PBS NewsHour
Eamon Grennan--February 21, 2007
View the Academy of American Poets page on Grennan
Louise Gluck--May 17, 2007
View the Library of Congress page on Gluck
Dave Smith--October 24, 2007
Read an article by Smith in Blackbird journal
David Ferry--April 23, 2008
View the Academy of American Poets page on Ferry
Major Jackson--November 5, 2008
View Jackson's website
Patricia Smith--April 22, 2009
View Smith's website
Naomi Shihab Nye--October 22, 2009
View Nye's website