Jan Freeman is a poet and the author of the forthcoming Blue Structure, Simon Says, nominated for an NBCC Award, Hyena, Autumn Sequence, and the chapbook manuscript, Silence. She directs Paris Press, which she founded in 1995 to bring back into print The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser.

Richard Michelson’s poetry collections include More Money than God, Battles & Lullabies, and Tap Dancing for Relatives. He is the host of Northampton Poetry Radio, and the just completed his second term as poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts.

Gregory Orr is author of twelve collections of poetry, including River Inside the River, Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved, and How Beautiful the Beloved. He is also the author of Poetry as Survival, and the memoir, The Blessing. He teaches at the University of Virginia.

Richard Hoffman is author of six books, Half the House: A Memoir, the poetry collections Without Paradise, Gold Star Road, and Emblem, Interference & Other Stories, and most recently the memoir Love & Fury. He is senior writer in residence at Emerson College.