| 1981 |
| A.R. Ammons |
| J.R. Brodsky |
| James Alan McPherson |
| Leslie Marmon Silko |
| Derek Walcott |
| Robert Penn Warren |
| Cormac McCarthy |
| Richard Critchfield |
| 1982 |
| William Gaddis |
| Ved Mehta |
| 1983 |
| William Kennedy |
| Brad Leithauser |
| John Sayles |
| Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan |
| 1984 |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Charles Simic |
| Bill Irwin |
| Galway Kinnell |
| 85 |
| John Ashbery |
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| 86 |
| Daryl Hine |
| Jay Wright |
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| 87 |
| Walter Abish |
| Douglas Crase |
| Richard Kenney |
| Tina Rosenberg |
| Mark Strand |
| May Swenson |
| 88 |
| Andre Dubus |
| Thomas Pynchon |
| 89 |
| Allen Grossman |
| Jay Cantor |
| Keith Hefner |
| Richard Powers |
| 90 |
| Guy Davenport |
| Jorie Graham |
| Patricia Hampl |
| John Hollander |
| Susan Sontag |
| 91 |
| Alice Fulton |
| Guillermo Gomez-Pena |
| David Hammons |
| Lewis Hyde |
| Eleanor Wilner |
| 92 |
| Amy Clampitt |
| Irving Feldman |
| Robert Hall |
| Norman Manea |
| Paule Marshall |
| Michael Massing |
| Joanna Scott |
| 93 |
| Stanley Crouch |
| Ernest Gaines |
| Thom Gunn |
| Jim Powell |
| John Wideman |
| 94 |
| Donella Meadows |
| Adrienne Rich |
| 95 |
| Octavia Butler |
| Sandra Cisneros |
| Virginia Hamilton |
| Sandy Close |
| 96 |
| Rebecca Goldstein |
| Richard Howard |
| John Jesurun |
| Thylias Moss |
| Anna Deavere Smith |
| 97 |
| Luis Alfaro |
| Lee Breuer |
| Han Ong |
| Susan Stewart |
| David Foster Wallace |
| 98 |
| Linda Bierds |
| Edward Hirsch |
| Charles R. Johnson |
| Charles Lewis |
| Ishmael Reed |
| Mary Zimmerman |
| 99 |
| Campbell McGrath |
| Naomi Wallace |
| 0 |
| Anne Carson |
| Ben Katchor |
| Lucia M. Perillo |
| 1 |
| Andrea Barrett |
| Susan Lori-Parks |
| 2002 |
| Katherine Boo |
| Karen Hesse |
| Jack Miles |
| Colson Whitehead |
| 2003 |
| Lydia Davis |
| Angela Johnson |
| 2004 |
| Aleksander Hermon |
| Edward P. Jones |
| C.D. Wright |
| 2005 |
| Jonathan Lethem |
| 2006 |
| Atul Gawande |
| David Macaulay |
| Sarah Ruhl |
| George Saunders |
| 2007 |
| Stuart Dybek |
| Lynn Nottage |
| Peter Cole |
| 2008 |
| Alex Ross |
| 2009 |
| Edwidge Danticat |
| Deborah Eisenberg |
| Heather McHugh |
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