Brenda Coultas is the author of four books of poetry and fiction: Early Films, The Marvelous Bones of Time, A Handmade Museum, and A Critical Mass.

Yusef Komunyakaa is author of seventeen collections of poetry. His work has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 Wallace Stevens Award. His plays, musical collaborations, and theater art have been performed internationally. His most recent collection is Testimony, A Tribute to Charlie Parker.

Brenda Hillman has published nine collections of poetry, most recently Practical Water and Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire. The Filippi Professor of Poetry at St. Mary’s College, she is an activist for social and environmental justice.

Peter Gizzi is the author of numerous books, including The Outernationale and Threshold Songs. His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets and fellowships from the Howard Foundation, the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On (an amneoir), a Rumpus magazine Poetry Book Club selection; the critical work Poetry and the Public; and the chapbook Earth Day Suite.