POETS & WRITERS SERIES
Below is a list of all the poets and writers who have been brought to Temple University through the graduate Creative Writing program. Names in bold were in residence for a week and met with students individually.

Fall 2007
Caroline Seebohm, Bob Perelman, John Keene, Brian Evenson, Edmund White

Spring 2007
Thalia Field, Daniel Howe, Sandra Newman, Junot Diaz, Bhanu Kapil, Tonya Foster, Peter Carey, Johanna Drucker

Fall 2006
Elizabeth Willis. Ben Marcus, Lance Olsen, Steve Tomasula, Barrett Watten, R.M. Berry

Spring 2006
Neil Gaiman, Claudia Rankine, Janet Desaulniers, Charles Bernstein, Joan Retallack

Fall 2005
Erin Moure, Pablo Medina, Rodrigo Toscano, Daniel Chacon, John Banville

Spring 2005
Christian Bok, Darin Strauss, Vikram Chandra, Renee Gladman, Caroline Bergvall

Fall 2004
Amy Bloom, Tracey Wilson, Fiona Templeton, Tracie Morris, Jonathan Lethem

Spring 2004
Sarah Schulman, David Antin, Chris Tysh, Michael Martone, Anita Desai

Fall 2003
Leslie Scalapino, George Saunders, Joseph McElroy. Rosemarie Waldrop, C.D. Wright

Spring 2003
Erica Hunt, Brian Evenson, Eileen Myles, Norma Cole, R.M. Berry

Fall 2002
Joan Retallack, John Biguenet, Charlotte Bacon, Pierre Joris, Robin Blaser

Spring 2002
Ann Lauterbach, Amy Hempel, Juliana Spahr, Michael Swanwick, Nathaniel Mackey

Fall 2001
Amiri Baraka, Kathleen George, Harry Mathews, Edwin Torres, Carole Maso

Spring 2001
Susan Howe, Michael Martone, Mark Nowak, Toby Olson, Alice Notley

Fall 2000
Myung Mi Kim, Meera Nair, Tom Hazuka, Caroline Bergvall, Robert Olen Butler

Spring 2000
Rick Moody, Paul Beatty, Cecilia Vicuna, Ellen Currie, Robert Creeley

Fall 1999
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Jonathan Ames, Caroline Seebohm, Carla Harryman, Robert Coover

Spring 1999
Hank Lazer, R.M. Berry, Donald Antrim, Joseph McElroy, Michael Palmer

Fall 1998
Maureen Howard, George Economou, Rochelle Owens, Tony Lopez, Andre Brink

Spring 1998
Maureen Owen, Jim Heynen, Darcy Steinke, Curtis White, Peter Carey

Fall 1997
Patricia Bosworth, Charles Bernstein, Susan Stewart, Ronald Johnson, Harryette Mullen

Spring 1997
Ron Padgett, Mary Gaitskill, Harold Jaffe, Bobby and Lee Byrd, Joseph McElroy

Fall 1996
Lorenzo Thomas, Ellen Currie, Bruce Weigl, Ronald Sukenick, Anne Waldman

Spring 1996
Richard Grossman, C.K. Williams, John Taggart, Robert Shacochis, Robert Haas

Fall 1995
Linsey Abrams, David Ferry, Bruce Weigl, George Garrett, William Gass

Spring 1995
William Van Wert, Josip Novakovich, Joan Retallack, Nathaniel Mackey, Gilbert Sorrentino

Fall 1994
David Ignatow, Forrest Gander, Rikki Ducornet, Susan Dodd, Eleanor Wilner

Spring 1994
Ron Silliman, Frederick Busch, Joseph McElroy, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Robin Blaser, Lyn Hejinian

Fall 1993
Robert Creeley, Karen Chamberlain and Lee Mortensen, Charles Hartman, Ann Lauterbach

Spring 1993
Hugh Seidman, Curtis White, Frank Bidart, Bob Perelman, Mary Kinzie

Fall 1992
Toni Cade Bambara, Rae Armantrout, Paul West, Marianne Wiggins

Spring 1992
Stephen Dixon, Elizabeth Spires, Clark Coolidge, William S. Wilson, Nathanial Tarn

Fall 1991
William Melvin Kelly, Suzanne Jill Levine, Michael Heller, Richard Burgin

Spring 1989
Jean Valentine, Allan Gurganus, Chase Twichell, John Taggart

Fall 1988
Joseph McElroy, Curtis White, Jerome Rothenberg, Ruth Stone, Clarence Major

Spring 1987
Derek Walcott, Michael Martone, Robley Wilson, Jr.

Spring 1986
Kathleen Fraser, Elizabeth Tallent, Scott Sanders, C.D. Wright