Alice Quinn is Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America, the nation's oldest poetry organization, which co-presents Poetry in Motion with transit systems in New York and other American cities. She was poetry editor at the New Yorker from 1987–2007 and at Alfred A. Knopf from 1976–1986.

Kevin Young is the author of ten books of poetry and prose, most recently Book of Hours, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Young’s The Grey Album won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2012, and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.

Marie Howe was named State Poet of New York in 2012. Her newest book of poems is The Kingdom of Ordinary Time. She is also the author of the collections What the Living Do and The Good Thief, winner of the 1988 National Poetry Series, and she has received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Bunting Institute. Coeditor of the anthology In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic, she currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and New York University.

Jonathan Wells's poems have appeared in the New Yorker, AGNI, Ploughshares, and many other journals. His first collection is Train Dance. His second collection is The Man with Many Pens. 

Catherine Woodard