SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA POETS WHO HAVE READ AND PARTICPATED IN MATWAALA’S READINGS,                                             FESTIVALS, PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS
  1. Afsar Mohammad
  2. Ami Patel
  3. ​Anis Shivani
  4. Anita Nahal
  5. Anu Mahadev
  6. Arangamallika
  7. ​Arundhati Subramaniam
  8. Ashna Ali
  9. Chandramohan Satyanathan
  10. Debangana Banerjee
  11. Dilruba Ahmed
  12. Diya Kanduri
  13. Geetha Sukumaran
  14. Gitanjali Lena
  15. Gopika Jadeja
  16. Indran Amirthanayagam
  17. ​Kalpna Singh Chitnis
  18. Kashiana Singh
  19. Kazim Ali
  20. Kavita Ezekeil Mendoca
  21. Keki Daruwalla – 2015 Poet-of-Honor
  22. Kiran Kapur
  23. Marjan Naderi
  24. Mayur Chauhan
  25. Meena Alexander
  26. Meenakshi Mohan
  27. Megha Sood
  28. Meher Manda
  29. Monica Moody
  30. Monica Ferrell
  31. Phinder Dulai
  32. Prageeta Sharma
  33. Pramila Venkateswaran
  34. Preeti Parikh
  35. Preeti Vangani
  36. Raena Shirali
  37. Ralph Nazareth – 2018 Poet-of-Honor
  38. Ramya Ramana
  39. Ravi Shankar
  40. Rohan Chhetri
  41. Sahar Muradi
  42. Saleem Peeradina – 2017 Poet-of-Honor
  43. Sara Garg
  44. Sarah Ghazal Ali
  45. Sasha Parmasad​
  46. Seni Seneviratne
  47. Shadab Zeest Hashmi
  48. Shash Trevett
  49. Shikha Saklani Malaviya
  50. Shlagha Bohra
  51. Shubh Bala Schleisser
  52. Shweta Rao Garg
  53. Sophia Naz
  54. Srinivas Mandavilli
  55. Srinivas Reddy
  56. Subhashini Kaligotla
  57. Sukirtharani
  58. Sudikshaa Amar
  59. ​Sunayana Pal
  60. Swati Rana
  61. Sweta Vikram Srivastava
  62. Swati Rana
  63. Tarfia Faizullah
  64. ​Uma Shankar
  65. ​Umesh Solanki
  66. Usha Akella
  67. Varsha Saraiya-Shah
  68. Varun Shetty
  69. Vidyan Ravinthiran
  70. Vijay Seshadri
  71. Vikas Menon
  72. Vivek Sharma
  73. Yamini Pathak
  74. Yuyutsu Sharma
  75. Zilka Joseph
UK poets
  1. Jess Mookherjhi
  2. Kavita Jindal
  3. Mona Dash
  4. Prabhu Guptara
  5. Reshma Ruia
  6. Rishi Dastidar
  7. Sohael Patel
  8. Yogesh Patel – 2019 Poet-of-Honor
  9. Shanta Acharya
Mexican:
  1. María Baranda
  2. Ana Belen
  3. Mariana Bernárdez
  4. Fernando Carrera
  5. Elsa Cross,
  6. Manuel Iris
  7. Luis Armenta-Malpica                                                                                                                                        
  8. Jorge Ortega
  9. Bessy Reyna                                                                                                                                             
  10. Natalia Toledo​
African American
  1. Dorothy Randall Gray
  2. Anastasia Tomkin
  3. Cynthia Manick
  4. Marsha Nelson
  5. Loretta Diane Walker 
Native American:
  1. Lyla June
  2. Lucille Long Day
  3. Andrina Smith
Caribbean:
  1. Marianela Medrano
  2. Danielle Legros Georges
  3. Keisha-Gaye Anderson
  4. Bessy Reyna
Asian American:
  1. Allison Albino 
  2. Sun Yung Shin 
  3. Joshua Nguyen
  4. Miho Nonaka 
  5. Pichchenda Bao 
  6. Deedle Tomlinson 
  7. Frances Kai-Hwa Wang 
  8. Bryan Thao Worra 
Dalit: (Included in the initial list)
  1. Sukirtharani,
  2. Arangamallika,
  3. Gopika Jadeja,
  4. Chandramohan Satyanathan,
  5. Geetha Sukumaran.
Palestinian Poets:
  1. Sharif Elmusa
  2. Ibtisam Barakat
  3. Zeina Azzam​
Jewish Poets: TBA