Diane Abu-Jaber
Meena Alexander
Robert Antoni
Wayne Armond
Russell Banks
Amiri Baraka
Eddie Baugh
Roger Bonair-Agard
Dionne Brand
Yvonne Brewster
Alwin Bully
Daniel Chavarría
Staceyann Chin
George Elliott Clarke
Oliver Clarke
Manthia Diawara
Mark Doty
Fae Ellington
Steve Golding
Francisco Goldman
Perry Henzell
Joan Andrea Hutchinson
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Niki Johnson
Konrad Kirlew
Li-Young Lee
Miles Marshall Lewis
Andrea Levy
Mbala
Mutabaruka
Krist Novoselic
Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Ernie Ranglin
Lauren Saunders
Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Stephanie Stokes Oliver latest book is Song For My Father: Memoir of an All-American Family (Atria, 2004). She is also president of SSO Communications, where she consults as editor-at-large of Essence magazine and writes a popular column called On Purpose, for NiaOnline.

Ms. Oliver’s previous books are Daily Cornbread: 365 Secrets for a Healthy Mind, Body, and Spirit (Doubleday, 1999), and Seven Soulful Secrets For Finding Your Purpose and Minding Your Mission (Doubleday, 2001). Song For My Father chronicles her coming-of-age in the turbulent 1960s and paints an affectionate picture of her relationship with her dad, the late Judge Charles M. Stokes, a Republican and Seattle’s first Black state legislator.

Program: Life Sentence