Jorge Luis Borges--April 27, 1983
Read an online biography of Borges
Denise Levertov--December 2, 1983
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T. Alan Broughton--February 10, 1984
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Michael S. Harper--April 27, 1984
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Mary Oliver--February 18, 1985
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Seamus Heaney--May 15, 1985
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Howard Nemerov--October 31, 1985
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Gwendolyn Brooks--January 9, 1986
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Lucille Clifton--February 25, 1987
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William E. Stafford--May 6, 1987
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Henry Taylor--February 17, 1988
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Verandah Porche--November 9, 1988
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Robert Bly--February 1, 1989
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Richard Wilbur--May 10, 1989
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Galway Kinnell--October 11, 1989
View the Academy of American Poets page on Kinnell