The following poets, writers, scholars, artists and musicians have presented their work in the YSU Poetry Center Reading Series:
Pamela Alexander

Rafael Alonso Almanzo
Maggie Anderson
Nin Andrews
Ron Antonucci
Rane Arroyo

Tom Bailey
David Baker
Kelly Bancroft
George Bilgere

Daniel Bourne
Bruce Bond
Philip Brady
Julie Browne
Jeanne Brynner
Robert Olen Butler

Robert Carioscia

Neil Carpathios

Wanda Coleman
Nicholas Coles
Roger Craik
Philip Dacey
Jim Daniels
Edwidge Danticat
Guy Davis
Toi Derricotte
Patricia Dobler
Denise Duhamel

Mynna Elfin
Zee Edgell

Tess Gallagher
Gary Gildner
Keith Gilyard

Elton Glaser
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
William Greenway
Bruce Guernsey

David Hassler
William Heyen
Joanna Higgins
H. L. Hix

Honoree Jeffers
Nigel Jenkins

X. J. Kennedy Karen Kovacik

Patricia Lear
Dan Leone
Christine Lincoln
Robert Lunday

Robert McBrearty
Jane McCafferty
James Alan McPherson
Roberto Manzano
Paule Marshall
Juliene Osbourne-McKnight
Orlando Menes
Philip Metres
Cecilia Milanes
Robert Miltner

John Montague
Robert Mooney
Bill Mullen
Jack Mullen
Erin Murphy

Leslie Newman
Lewis Nordan
Naomi Shihab Nye

Achy Obejas
U Sam Oeur
Tanure Ojaide
Sharon Olds

Karl Patten
George Peffer
Neno Perrota
Frank Polite
Lynn Powell

Major Ragain
Steven Reese
Gibbons Ruark

Bill Saporito
Sheila Schwartz

W. D. Snodgrass
Kim Stafford

Robert Taylor
Diane Theil

Richard Tillinghast
Dovie Thomason
Mary Turzillo

Antonio Vallone

John Vernon

Kevin Walzer
Sara Willis

Carolyne Wright