From 1998 to the present, over 10,000 local students have played with words while reading and writing poetry with professional poets in the classroom.
Poets
- Elizabeth Austen
- Gloria Burgess
- Tom Crawford
- Lorna Crozier
- Tony Curtis
- Michael Daley
- Alice Derry
- Chris Dombrowski
- Anita Endrezze
- Lorraine Ferra
- Kathleen Flenniken
- Joseph Green
- Samuel Green
- Sharon Hashimoto
- Jane Hirshfield
- David Huerta
- Paul Hunter
- Georgia Johnson
- Kurtis Lamkin
- Patrick Lane
- Thomas Lux
- David Mason
- Tim McNulty
- Bryan Patrick Miller
- Mike O'Connor
- William O'Daly
- Nancy Pagh
- Peter Pereira
- Pattiann Rogers
- Rachel Rose
- Mark Schafer
- Robin Seyfried
- Arthur Solomon
- Michael Spence
- Primus St. John
- David Wagoner
- Michael Wiegers
- Robert Wrigley