Participants

Laureano Albán

Edward Albee

Robert C. Alberts

Daphne Alderson

Dannie Abse

Chinua Achebe

Diane Ackerman

Carl Adams

Adonis

Aijaz Ahmad

Jane Alexander

Katherine Allentuck

Maria Alsatti

A.R. Ammons

Jack Anderson

Jon Anderson

Dame Judith Anderson

Orlando Antigua

Antiqua Players

Philip Appleman

Simon Armitage

John Ashbery

Tom Atkins

W.H. Auden

David Baker

John Balaban

Leonardo Balada

Jill Balcon

Sushanta Banerjee

Carol Jane Bangs

Gerald Barrax

Quan Barry

John Barth

Marilyn Bates

Jan Beatty

Lynn Beckstrom

Charles Bell

Bellefield Singers

Saul Bellow

Claudia Benack

Michael Benedikt

Louise Bennett-Coverley

Daniel Berrigan

Wendell Berry

John Berryman

Frank Bidart

Elizabeth Bishop

Claire Bloom

Robert Bly

Eavan Boland

James Bonk

Jorge Luis Borges

Susana Bosqué

Phil Bourque

Peg Boyers

Barry Boys

Bozhidar Bozhilov

George C. Bradley Jr.

Kamau Brathwaite

Irvin Brentley

Nellie Briles

Joseph Brodsky

William Bronk

Gwendolyn Brooks

Michael Dennis Browne

Ashley Bryan

David Budway

Anne Burnham

Richard Burns

Stanley Burnshaw

Ellen Burstyn

Stacy Byers

Marcus Cafagna

Zoe Caldwell

Robert Cameron

Ellis Cannon

Olga Carlisle

Carnegie Mellon Orchestra & Chorus

Morris Carnovsky

Robert Carothers

John Carroll

Pat Carroll

Hayden Carruth

Sheila Carter-Jones

Jay Caufield

Charles Causley

Hayan Charara

Andrée Chedid

Kelly Cherry

Nancy Chesney

Nicholas Christopher

John Ciardi

Liam Clancy

The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem

George David Clark

Carole Clemmons

François Clemmons

Lucille Clifton

Alex Coleman

Michael Collier

Billy Collins

Judy Collins

The Con Spirito Quintet

Alice Condodina & Company

David Conrad

Demareus Cooper

Jane Cooper

Myron Cope

Phil Costa

Marianne Cornetti

Frank Correnti

Robert W. Corrigan

Gerald Costanzo

Tomé Cousin

Jamillia Kamara Covington

Etta Cox

Robert Creeley

James Crenner

Hume Cronyn

Gregory Curtis

R. R. Cuscaden

Yakov Dan

Jim Daniels

John Dankworth

Dankworth Quartet

Ann Darr

Loren K. Davidson

Ossie Davis

Al Davis

Nathan Davis & Tomorrow

Victoria de los Ángeles

Ruby Dee

Michel Deguy

James DeMasi

James Den Boer

J. Brooks Dendy III

Richard Denning

Carl Dennis

Diana Der Hovanessian

Toi Derricotte

Jean Desailly

Shirin Devrim

Colleen Dewhurst

Raymond DiPalma

W.S. Di Piero

James Dickey

Annie Dillard

R.H.W. Dillard

Patricia Dobler

E.L. Doctorow

Marilyn Donnelly

Ariel Dorfman

Sean Thomas Dougherty

Melvyn Douglas

Rita Dove

Al Dowe & Ensemble

Martin Dubé

Denise Duhamel

Larry Dunlap

Stephen Dunn

Duquesne University Chamber Singers

Duquesne University Concert Choir

Duquesne University Symphonic Band

Duquesne University Wind Symphony

Lawrence Durrell

David Early

Richard Eberhart

W.D. Ehrhart

Sister Maura Eichner

Lynn Emanuel

John Engels

Daniel Mark Epstein

Jean Erdman & Company

Richard Ericson

Martín Espada

Dave Etter

Peter Everwine

Gavin Ewart

Clifton Fadiman

Vangelis Fampas

W. Ellington Felton

James Ferla

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Rina Ferrarelli

José Ferrer

Angene Feves

Michael Fiacco

Gary Fincke

Karen Fish

Pauline Flanagan

Fionnula Flanagan

Roland Flint

Nicholas Flocos

Carolyn Forché

Frederick H. Fornoff

Wallace Fowlie

Siv Fox

Douglas Freundlich

Dan Frezza

Jonathan Galassi

Brendan Galvin

Patrick Galvin

Theresa Gambacorta

Isabella Gardner

William T. Gardner

George Garrett

Ross Gay

Jack Gelber

Rhoda Gelfond

Vivica Genaux

Dan Gerber

Gail Ghai

Robert Gibb

Margaret Gibson

Jack Gilbert

Sandra Gilbert

Gary Gildner

Richard Gilman

Dana Gioia

Arthur Giron

Danny Glover

Lloyd Goldman

Lorna Goodison

Lester Goran

Joseph Gray

Bob Greene

Kathy Greenstone

Jake Grefenstette

Linda Gregg

Arthur Gregor

Eamon Grennan

Tammy Grimes

George Grizzard

Emily Grosholz

Suzanne Gross

Allen Grossman

Nicholas Guest

Thom Gunn

Doris Hackney

Kimiko Hahn

John Haines

Alex Haley

Barbara Hall

Donald Hall

Paul Halley

Elizabeth Halliday

Talât Sait Halman

Mark Halperin

Daniel Halpern

Sam Hamill

Sam Hamod

Michael Harper

Barbara Harr

Chris Harris

Craig Harris

Joe Harris

Julie Harris

Keith Harrison

Noel Harrison

Lisa Harrow

Robert Bernard Hass

Jeffrey Hayden

Robert Hayden

Ann L. Hayes

Terrance Hayes

Samuel Hazo

Seamus Heaney

Anthony Hecht

Joseph Heller

Sara Henderson Hay

Patricia Henley

William Heyen

Bob Hicok

Antonio Hidalgo

Jamake Highwater

Edward Hirsch

Jane Hirshfield

Daniel Hoffman

Miles Hoffman

Jonathan Holden

Stephen Holden

Barbara Holland

Andrea Hollander

Rudi Holzapfel

Anthony Hopkins

Michael Horovitz

John Houseman

Richard Howard

Jeff Howell

Barbara Howes

Bill Hillgrove

Andrew Hudgins

Robert Huff

Glyn Hughes

Ted Hughes

Richard Hugo

Abbie Huston Evans

David Ignatow

Colette Inez

Anne Jackson

Gary Jackson

Susan Jacobson

Roderick Jellema

Joseph Willcox Jenkins

Jonathan Johnson

Judith Emlyn Johnson

James Earl Jones

Rodney Jones

D.G. Jones

Erica Jong

Lawrence Joseph

Jubilee Choir of the New Light Temple Baptist Church

Nuno Júdice

William Jungles

Donald Justice

Dan Kamin

Sotos Kappas

Mary Karr

Milton Katselas

Menke Katz

Shirley Kaufman

Stacy Keach

Edmund Keeley

George Keithley

Chauncey Kelley

Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco)

David M. Kelly

Jane Kenyon

Michael Kermoyan

Milton Kessler

David Kherdian

Richard Kiley

Lou Killen

Maurice Kilwein Guevara

Nellie King

Robert Kingdom

Galway Kinnell

Thomas Kinsella

Carolyn Kizer

George Kline

Eric Kloss

John Knoepfle

Kenneth Koch

Nancy Koerbel

Yusef Komunyakaa

Jerzy Kosinski

Karen Kovacik

Beatrice Krebs

Barry Kukovich

Maxine Kumin

Stanley Kunitz

Stephen Kuusisto

Greg Kuzma

John L'Heureux

Tom LaFlame

Dave LaRocca

Cleo Laine

Martin Lammon

Bruce Langhorne

Paul-Marie Lapointe

Konstantinos Lardas

Richmond Lattimore

James Laughlin

Valerie Lawrence

Irving Layton

Naomi Lazard

Don L. Lee (Haki R. Madhubuti)

Frank Lehner

Cleve Leshikar

Walter Leuba

Lyubomir Levchev

Denise Levertov

Jan Heller Levi

Philip Levine

Larry Levis

Gwyneth Lewis

Luis Liciaga

James Liddy

Laurence Lieberman

Michael Lieberman

Viveca Lindfors

A.J. Litwinko

Robert Lowell

Susan Ludvigson

Archibald MacLeish

Cathy MacNeal

Clarence Major

Peter Makuck

David Malouf

Grigoris Maninakis Ensemble

John Marcinizyn

Kika Markham

Marshall W. Mason

Khaled Mattawa

Jack Matthews

William Matthews

Edward Mattos

Julia May

Eugene J. McCarthy

Mark McCloskey

Larry McCloskey

Ryan McDermott

Walter McDonald

Jo McDougall

Roger McGough

Heather McHugh

Anthony McKay

Siobhan McKenna

Leslie Mcilroy

Lynne McMahon

Sandra McPherson

Don Megahan

The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh

Gian Carlo Menotti

William Meredith

James Merrill

W.S. Merwin

G.W. Meyers

Takis Michael

Akram Midani

Andrea Miller

Jason Miller

Jordan Miller

Mildred Miller

Czesław Miłosz

Judith Minty

Gaston Miron

Adrian Mitchell

Timothy Monich

Frederick Morgan

Ramon Morris

Howard Moss

Stanley Moss

Sir Andrew Motion

Michael Mott

Nana Mouskouri & the Olympians

Paul Muldoon

Barbara Murphy

Richard Murphy

Tom Murphy

Les A. Murray

Joan Murray

Patri Nader

V.S. Naipaul

Cristina Nassif

S. Joseph Nassif

Thomas Nassif

Bobby Negri

Joe Negri

Marilyn Nelson Waniek

Howard Nemerov

Rex Nettleford

Lyubomir Nikolov

Bink Noll

Queen Noor of Jordan

Kathleen Norris

Mija Novich

Naomi Shihab Nye

Jack O'Brien

Richard O'Connell

Ned O’Gorman

Richard O’Keefe

Bingo O’Malley

Michael O'Siadhail

Jeff Oaks

Joyce Carol Oates

Ed Ochester

Sharon Olds

Mary Oliver

Peter Oresick

Dr. Emiola Oriola Jr.

Anthony Ostroff

Maureen Owen

Robert Pack

Ron Padgett

Heberto Padilla

Robert Page

Anna Paidoussi-Drakopoulou

Joseph Papp

Nemesio Paredes

Jay Parini

Robert Parks

Julie Parson-Nesbitt

Richard Pasco

Elly Paspalas

Linda Pastan

Brian Patten

Octavio Paz

Gregory Peck

Susan Perabo

Anthony Perkins

Mark Perlberg

Charles Perrier

David Perrin

Brock Peters

Walt Peterson

Anthony Petrosky

Samuel Pickering

Sanford Pinsker

Robert Pinsky

Pittsburgh Oratorio Society

Peter Porter

Reynolds Price

Joy Priest

Al Purdy

Lawrence Raab

Thomas Rabbitt

James Ragan

Laurie Randolph

John Crowe Ransom

Barbara Ras

Christopher Rawson

Mary Rawson

David Ray

Corin Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

Ishmael Reed

Alastair Reid

Paisley Rekdal

Georgeann Rettberg

Adrienne Rich

Jack Ridl

Grace Rishell

Elisavietta Ritchie

Ed Roberson

Len Roberts

Paul Roche

Jim Roddey

Fred Rogers

Lenny Rogers

María Soledad Romero

Jane Romney

Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh

Muriel Rukeyser

Helena Ruoti

Andy Russell

Phillip Ryder

Eva Marie Saint

Baker Salsbury

Bruno Sammartino

Ernest Sandeen

Carlota Santana Dance Company

Sherod Santos

Tom Sawyer

Brij B. Saxena

Ranjeet Saxena

Fred Schell

Gladys Schmitt

Dennis Schmitz

Ian Schneiderman

Rainer Schulte

Dennis Scott

Herbert Scott

Alexander Scourby

George Seferis

Hugh Seidman

Rebecca Seiferle

Richard Selzer

Jo Sennet

Anne Sexton

Simon Shaheen

Harvey Shapiro

Karl Shapiro

Bihari Sharma

Anita Sheer

Richard Shelton

Brooke Shields

Charles Simic

Michael Simms

Yannis Simonides

Louis Simpson

Knute Skinner

Amanda Slaughter

Warren Slesinger

Aaron Smith

Ellen Smith

Ken Smith

William Jay Smith

W.D. Snodgrass

Gary Soto

Stephen Spender

Elizabeth Spires

Sheryl St. Germain

William Stafford

Maureen Stapleton

George Starbuck

David Steingass

Kevin Stemmler

Stephan Stepanchev

Dr. John Stone

Ruth Stone

Mark Strand

Seth Strickland

Ray Stricklyn

Lucien Stryk

Julie Suk

Sekou Sundiata

Barton Sutter

Ross Sutter

Lynn Swann

Karen Swenson

May Swenson

Pedro Tamen

Mark Tamsula

Jessica Tandy

Allen Tate

James Tate

Philip Terman

Diane Thiel

Lynne Thigpen

B. Geoffrey Thomas

Jean Thomas

Aeronwy Thomas Ellis

Sue Ellen Thompson

Holly Thuma

Harold Tinkle

Charles Tomlinson

Sony Ton-Aime

Tony Towle

Tomas Tranströmer

Trinity Cathedral Choir

Dietlinde Turban Maazel

Fawaz Turki

Brian Turner

John Updike

Sebastián Urli

Peter Ustinov

Jean Valentine

Simone Valère

Mark Van Doren

Mona Van Duyn

Vassilis Vassilikos

Glen Velez

George Vikos

Gerald Vizenor

George Vogel

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Kurt Vonnegut

Andrei Voznesensky

David Wagoner

Diane Wakoski

Derek Walcott

Anne Waldman

Ken Waldman

Frank X Walker

Eli Wallach

Maureen Wallis

Chad Walsh

Bryan Walters

Sam Wanamaker

Robert Penn Warren

Roseanna Warren

Afaa Michael Weaver

Marc Weber

Theodore Weiss

James Welch

John Westbrook

Sally Wiggin

Richard Wilbur

Donald Wilkins

Nancy Willard

Charles Williams

Miller Williams

Tennessee Williams

C.K. Williams

Lucinda Williams

Nicol Williamson

Emily Wilson

Paul Winter & Ensemble

Craig Wolfley

John Woods

Gabriel Woolf

James Wright

Jay Wright

Kit Wright

Michael Wurster

Amy Yanity

Michael B. Yeats

Gráinne Yeats

Samuel Yellen

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Michael York

Gozo Yoshimasu

Marilia Parker Yoshimasu

David P. Young

Kate Young

Margaret Young

Adam Zagajewski

Miguel Zanetti

Bill Zavatsky

Andrena Zawinski

Richard Zenith

Anthony Zerbe

Paul Zimmer

Edward Albee (IPF ‘80)

John Ashbery (IPF ‘77)

W.H. Auden (IPF ‘69)

Saul Bellow (IPF ‘80)

John Berryman (IPF ‘70)

Frank Bidart (IPF ‘76)

Elizabeth Bishop (IPF ‘78)

Gwendolyn Brooks (IPF ‘68, ‘83)

Carl Dennis (IPF ‘80)

Annie Dillard (IPF ‘75)

Rita Dove (IPF ‘26)

Stephen Dunn (IPF ‘95)

Richard Eberhart (IPF ‘67)

Alex Haley (IPF ‘81)

Anthony Hecht (IPF ‘73, ‘76, ‘82)

Richard Howard (IPF ‘74)

Donald Justice (IPF ‘67, ‘81)

Galway Kinnell (IPF ‘71, ‘83, ‘88, ‘91, ‘96, ‘00)

Carolyn Kizer (IPF ‘69, ‘75)

Yusef Komunyakaa (IPF ‘98)

Maxine Kumin (IPF ‘74, ‘82, ‘99)

Stanley Kunitz (IPF ‘72, ‘73, ‘81, ‘86)

Philip Levine (IPF ‘90)

Robert Lowell (IPF ‘67)

Archibald MacLeish (IPF ‘66, ‘71, ‘75, ‘77)

Gian Carlo Menotti (IPF ‘84)

William Meredith (IPF ‘67, ‘70)

James Merrill (IPF ‘70)

W.S. Merwin (IPF ‘69, ‘70, ‘82, ‘89, ‘97, ‘06)

Jason Miller (IPF ‘86)

Paul Muldoon (IPF ‘08)

Howard Nemerov (IPF ‘74)

Sharon Olds (IPF ‘02)

Mary Oliver (IPF ‘79)

Anne Sexton (IPF ‘67)

Karl Shapiro (IPF ‘90)

Charles Simic (IPF ‘75)

Louis Simpson (IPF ‘74, ‘88, ‘96, ‘04)

W.D. Snodgrass (IPF ‘70)

Mark Strand (IPF ‘70)

James Tate (IPF ‘68)

John Updike (IPF ‘69, ‘75)

Mark Van Doren (IPF ‘67)

Mona Van Duyn (IPF ‘72, ‘92)

Robert Penn Warren (IPF ‘68)

Richard Wilbur (IPF ‘66, ‘70, ‘71, ‘75, ‘81, ‘86, ‘96, ‘05)

C.K. Williams (IPF ‘06)

Tennessee Williams (IPF ‘79)

James Wright (IPF ‘69)

A.R. Ammons (IPF ‘67)

John Ashbery (IPF ‘77)

W.H. Auden (IPF ‘69)

John Barth (IPF ‘69)

Saul Bellow (IPF ‘80)

John Berryman (IPF ‘70)

Frank Bidart (IPF ‘76)

Elizabeth Bishop (IPF ‘78)

Robert Bly (IPF ‘69)

Williams Bronk (IPF ‘88)

Hayden Carruth (IPF ‘80)

Lucille Clifton (IPF ‘71, ‘91)

James Dickey (IPF ‘67, ‘73)

E.L. Doctorow (IPF ‘77)

Richard Eberhart (IPF ‘67)

Martín Espada (IPF ‘97, ‘98, ‘05)

Terrance Hayes (IPF ‘08, ‘24, ‘25)

Galway Kinnell (IPF ‘71, ‘83, ‘88, ‘91, ‘96, ‘00)

Jerzy Kosiński (IPF ‘72, ‘86)

Stanley Kunitz (IPF ‘72, ‘73, ‘81, ‘86)

Philip Levine (IPF ‘90)

Robert Lowell (IPF ‘67)

Archibald MacLeish (IPF ‘66, ‘71, ‘75, ‘77)

William Meredith (IPF ‘67, ‘70)

James Merrill (IPF ‘70)

W.S. Merwin (IPF ‘69, ‘70, ‘82, ‘89, ‘97, ‘06)

Howard Moss (IPF ‘79)

Howard Nemerov (IPF ‘74)

Joyce Carol Oates (IPF ‘73)

Mary Oliver (IPF ‘79)

John Crowe Ransom (IPF ‘67)

Adrienne Rich (IPF ‘69, ‘73)

William Stafford (IPF ‘72, ‘73, ‘76, ‘86)

Ruth Stone (IPF ‘88)

James Tate (IPF ‘68)

John Updike (IPF ‘69, ‘75)

Jean Valentine (IPF ‘69)

Mona Van Duyn (IPF ‘72, ‘92)

Richard Wilbur (IPF ‘66, ‘70, ‘71, ‘75, ‘81, ‘86, ‘96, ‘05)

C.K. Williams (IPF ‘06)

Elizabeth Bishop (IPF ‘78)

Joseph Brodsky (IPF ‘74)

Gwendolyn Brooks (IPF ‘68, ‘83)

Billy Collins (IPF ‘02, ‘25)

James Dickey (IPF ‘67, ‘73)

Rita Dove (IPF ‘26)

Richard Eberhart (IPF ‘67)

Donald Hall (IPF ‘93)

Robert Hayden (IPF ‘67, ‘78)

Anthony Hecht (IPF ‘73, ‘76, ‘82)

Daniel Hoffman (IPF ‘72, ‘73)

Maxine Kumin (IPF ‘74, ‘82, ‘99)

Stanley Kunitz (IPF ‘72, ‘73, ‘81, ‘86)

Philip Levine (IPF ‘90)

Robert Lowell (IPF ‘67)

William Meredith (IPF ‘67, ‘70)

W. S. Merwin (IPF ‘69, ‘70, ‘82, ‘89, ‘97, ‘06)

Howard Nemerov (IPF ‘74)

Robert Pinsky (IPF ‘95, ‘97, ‘99)

Karl Shapiro (IPF ‘90)

Charles Simic (IPF ‘75)

William Jay Smith (IPF ‘69, ‘70, ‘72 ‘77, ‘80)

Stephen Spender (IPF ‘71, ‘74)

William Stafford (IPF ‘72, ‘73, ‘76, ‘86)

Mark Strand (IPF ‘70)

Allen Tate (IPF ‘72)

Mona Van Duyn (IPF ‘72, ‘92)

Robert Penn Warren (IPF ‘68)

Richard Wilbur (IPF ‘66, ‘70, ‘71, ‘75, ‘81, ‘86, ‘96, ‘05)

Saul Bellow (IPF ‘80)

Joseph Brodsky (IPF ‘74)

Seamus Heaney (IPF ‘74, ‘79, ‘87, ‘91, ‘04)

Czesław Miłosz (IPF ‘75, ‘86)

V.S. Naipaul (IPF ‘80)

Octavio Paz (IPF ‘74)

George Seferis (IPF ‘68)

Tomas Tranströmer (IPF ‘72, ‘89)

Derek Walcott (IPF ‘72, ‘84, ‘86, ‘92)

*In addition to these participants in our reading series, the International Poetry Forum sponsored early translations of Odysseus Elytis for the Pitt Poetry Series (1974) and Vicente Aleixandre for the Forum’s own Byblos Editions imprint (1981).

Ellen Burstyn (IPF ‘87)

Melvyn Douglas (IPF ‘75)

José Ferrer (IPF ‘77)

Anthony Hopkins (IPF ‘90)

John Houseman (IPF ‘75)

James Earl Jones (IPF ‘82, ‘92, ‘00)

Grace Kelly (IPF ‘78, ‘80)

Gregory Peck (IPF ‘95)

Vanessa Redgrave (IPF ‘93)

Eva Marie Saint (IPF ‘96)

Maureen Stapleton (IPF ‘72)

Jessica Tandy (IPF ‘73)

Peter Ustinov (IPF ‘79)

Eli Wallach (IPF ‘71, ‘91)

Edward Albee (IPF ‘80)

Pat Carroll (IPF ‘80)

François Clemmons (IPF ‘73)

Judy Collins (IPF ‘66, ‘69, ‘25)

Ossie Davis (IPF ‘81)

Ruby Dee (IPF ‘81)

George Grizzard (IPF ‘75, ‘92)

Paul Halley (IPF ‘84)

Julie Harris (IPF ‘77, ‘92)

Stephen Holden

James Earl Jones (IPF ‘82, ‘92, ‘00)

Cleo Laine (IPF ‘83, ‘84, ‘85, ‘90)

Fred Rogers (IPF ‘67)

Peter Ustinov (IPF ‘79)

Glen Velez (IPF ‘84)

Lucinda Williams (IPF ‘01)

Paul Winter (IPF ‘84)

Edward Albee (IPF '80)

Jane Alexander (IPF '95)

Judith Anderson (IPF '74)

Ellen Burstyn (IPF '87)

Zoe Caldwell (IPF '83)

Hume Cronyn (IPF '73)

Colleen Dewhurst (IPF '75)

Melvyn Douglas (IPF '75)

José Ferrer (IPF '77)

Tammy Grimes (IPF '85)

George Grizzard (IPF '75, 92)

Julie Harris (IPF '77, ‘92)

James Earl Jones (IPF ‘82, ‘92, ‘00)

Richard Kiley (IPF '95)

Archibald MacLeish (IPF ‘66, ‘71, ‘75, ‘77)

Marshall W. Mason (IPF '85)

Jason Miller (IPF '86)

Jack O'Brien (IPF '75)

Joseph Papp (IPF '68)

Vanessa Redgrave (IPF '93)

Maureen Stapleton (IPF '72)

Jessica Tandy (IPF '73)

Tennessee Williams (IPF '79)