Spring 2000
Ghetto Girl Blue - poet and founder of the Punany Poets, an Oakland-based poetry and performance group featured on HBO's Real Sex.

Summer/Fall 1999
Loure' Bussey - Romance Novelist, Singer and Songwriter

Spring 1999
Tia Shabazz - Writer and Director of the African American Online Writers Guild, the foremost online resource for African American writers.

Fall 1998
John Riddick - Poet, Writer and Publisher of Rhapsody Magazine, a quarterly literary magazine.

Summer 1998
Zamounde the Footstepper - Poet and one of the leading advocates of the poetic renaissance in the black community.