was born in the desert foothills of the Catalina Mountain Ridge near Oracle, Arizona, in 1930. She attended the University of Arizona, majoring in literature and history. She was there, at the historic moment, when Allen Ginsberg read “Howl” at the Six Gallery in San Francisco on Friday, October 7, 1955. Her writings include Wolf Eyes, Extended Love Poems, and Hard Edge.

 is a poet and photographer born in 1943.  He was the chief assistant for artist Andy Warhol in the mid –1960s, with whom he founded the magazine Interview in 1969. He was also featured in several of Warhol’s films, collaborated with Warhol on his “Screen Tests” project, and was a member of Warhol’s cross – genre undertaking, “The Exploding Plastic Inevitable.” He has published the photography books Good Girls (1994) and Resistance to Memory (1998). With Victor Bockris, he co – authored Up –Tight: The Velvet Underground Story (2003). He lives in New York City.

is a poet, activist, journalist, and author of a dozen books and tapes of poetry. His poems have appeared in many anthologies over the last twenty – five years. He is founder of Friends of The Los Angeles River, a “40 year art work” to bring the Los Angeles River back to life. His book, Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop and the American Avant Garde was published in 2001. A new collection of poems, The River: Books One, Two & Three, takes the Los Angeles River as its metaphor, weaving the story and song of the poet, activist, and journalist as these three roles form the confluence which is the man.

after receiving an undergraduate degree in 1955 from the City College of the City University of New York, he studied for three years at Columbia University. He is a co –  founder of the Chelsea Review (now Chelsea) and Trobar magazine. After publishing his first collection of poems, Armed Descent, in 1961, he went on to publish more than fifty poetry titles, including Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News (1980), which received the Los Angeles Times First Annual Book Award; Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960 –1993 (1995); Lapis (2005); and May Day (Parsifal Press, 2007). His poems and stories have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, and Serbian. He has received an Award for Distinction from the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has taught at Wagner College, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and as the Tufts University Visiting Professor of Modern Poetry. He has also served as Poet in Residence at Yale University (Calhoun College), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Kansas University, Dickinson College, California Institute of the Arts, and the University of Southern California.  He currently serves as Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature and Co – Director of the Program in Written Arts at Bard College, where he has taught since 1961.