| 1. |
1953-1954 |
E. L. Mayo |
| 2. |
1954-1955 |
Stanley Kunitz |
| 3. |
1955-1956 |
Joseph Langland |
| 4. |
1956-1957 |
William Alfred |
| 5. |
1957-1958 |
Elizabeth Bishop |
| 6. |
1958-1959 |
Kenneth Rexroth |
| 7. |
1959-1960 |
May Swenson |
| 8. |
1960-1961 |
Judson Jerome |
| 9. |
1961-1962 |
Adrienne Rich Conrad |
| 10. |
1962-1963 |
Byron Vazakas |
| 11. |
1963-1964 |
Miller Williams |
| 12. |
1964-1965 |
Robert Bly |
| 13. |
1965-1966 |
Thomas McGrath |
| 14. |
1966-1967 |
Robert Grenier |
| 15. |
1967-1968 |
Robert Francis |
| 16. |
1968-1969 |
Edwin Honig |
| 17. |
1969-1970 |
Galway Kinnell |
| 18. |
1970-1971 |
Keith Waldrop |
| 19. |
1971-1972 |
Michael Wolfe |
| 20. |
1972-1973 |
Robert Peterson |
| 21. |
1973-1974 |
Kenneth O. Hanson |
| 22. |
1974-1975 |
Rika Lesser |
| 23. |
1975-1976 |
Jonathan Aaron |
| 24. |
1976-1977 |
John Haines |
| 25. |
1977-1978 |
Lynn Sukenick |
| 26. |
1978-1979 |
Edward Hirsch |
| 27. |
1979-1980 |
Norman Williams |
| 28. |
1980-1981 |
William Logan |
| 29. |
1981-1982 |
Brad Leithauser |
| 30. |
1982-1983 |
Debora Greger |
| 31. |
1983-1984 |
Nicholas Christopher (resigned) |
| 32. |
1984-1985 |
Gjertrud Schnackenberg |
| 33. |
1985-1986 |
Nicholas Christopher |
| 34. |
1986-1987 |
Elizabeth Spires |
| 35. |
1987-1988 |
David C. Wojahn |
| 36. |
1988-1989 |
Jeffrey Harrison |
| 37. |
1989-1990 |
Henri Cole |
| 38. |
1990-1991 |
Richard Tillinghast |
| 39. |
1991-1992 |
Sharon M. Van Sluys |
| 40. |
1992-1993 |
Daniel J. Hall |
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| 41. |
1993-1994 |
John Drexel |
| 42. |
1994-1995 |
Reginald Shepherd (resigned) |
| 43. |
1995-1996 |
Mary Jo Salter |
| 44. |
1996-1997 |
Craig Arnold |
| 45. |
1997-1998 |
Caroline Finkelstein |
| 46. |
1998-1999 |
Elizabeth Macklin |
| 47. |
1999-2000 |
Phillis Levin |
| 48. |
2000-2001 |
Richard Foerster |
| 49. |
2001-2002 |
Nick Flynn |
| 50. |
2002-2003 |
Rick Hilles |
| 51. |
2003-2004 |
Mark Wunderlich (resigned) |
| 52. |
2004-2005 |
Mary Jane Nealon |
| 53. |
2005-2006 |
Geri Ann Doran |
| 54. |
2006-2007 |
James Arthur |
| 55. |
2007-2008 |
David Roderick |
| 56. |
2008-2009 |
Kathleen Graber |
| 57. |
2009-2010 |
Brian Turner |
| 58. |
2010-2011 |
Paula Bohince |
| |
2010-2011 |
Elizabeth Arnold |
| 59. |
2011-2012 |
Paisley Rekdal |
| |
2011-2012 |
Mark Spencer Reece |
| 60. |
2012-2013 |
Joshua Weiner |
| |
2012-2013 |
Penelope Pelizzon |
| 61. |
2013-2014 |
CJ Evans |
| |
2013-2014 |
Rebecca Lindenberg |
| 62. |
2014-2015 |
Sam Taylor |
| 63. |
2015-2016 |
Meg Day |
| 64. |
2016-2017 |
Will Schutt |
| 65. |
2017-2018 |
Joanna Klink |
| 66. |
2018-2019 |
Molly McCully Brown |
| 67. |
2019-2020 |
Anne Pierson Wiese |
| 68. |
2020-2021 |
Austin Smith |
| 69. |
2021-2022 |
Tiana Clark |
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2021-2022 |
Ama Codjoe |
| 70. |
2022-2023 |
Derrick Austin |
| |
2022-2023 |
Devon Walker-Figueroa |
| 71. |
2023-2024 |
Christopher Nelsen |
| 72. |
2024-2025 |
Kimberly Johnson |
| 73. |
2025-2026 |
Ansel Elkins |
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