Past Readers

1981

Galway Kinnell

1982

Miriam Patchen, James Schevill

1983

Jack Hirschman, Galway Kinnell, Carolyn Forche, Sandra Gilbert, Robert Bly

1984

Robert Peters, Allan Williamson, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Gary Snyder, Steve Sanfield, Kim Stafford, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane DiPrima, Sharon Doubiago (@ Crest, Central American Peace Reading)

1985

William Dickey, Robert Bly, Diane DiPrima, Galway Kinnell, Carolyn Forche

1986

Leonard Nathan

1986 (1st Conference)

William Stafford, Sandra McPherson, Dennis Schmitz.

1987

Jim Carroll (in association w/ Club Can’t Tell), Edward Mycue

1987 (Conference)

Michael McClure, Diane Di Prima, Sandra McPherson, D. R. Wagner

1988

Marilyn Nelson (Waniek), Sharon Doubiago, Leonard Cirino

1988 (Conference)

Jim Dodge

1989

Jerome Washington, Fernando Alegria, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Cole Swensen, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Mary Mackey

1989 (Conference)

Anne Waldman, Cole Swensen, William Howarth

1990

Gary Short

1990 (Conference)

Gary Snyder

1990

Maya Angelou (co-sponsored w/ California Cultural Assembly)

1991

W. S. Di Piero, Phavia Kujichagulia

1991 (Conference)

William Matthews, Jane Hirshfield

1992

Philip Levine (co-sponsored w/California Center for the Book & California State Library Foundation)

1992 (Conference)

Larry Levis, Leslie Scalapino & Dennis Schmitz (co-sponsored by and held at California State Library)

1993

Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, Andrew Schelling

1993 (Conference)

Robert Creeley, Joanne Kyger

1994

Cole Swensen, Sharon Doubiago, Ruth Weiss

1994 (Conference)

Lucille Clifton, Jose Montoya, Jack Hirshman

2002 (Conference)

Quincy Troupe, Jose Montoya