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.

was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977, and came to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He is the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) which won the Whiting Writer’s Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine. Dancing In Odessa was also named Best Poetry Book of the Year 2004 by ForeWord Magazine. In 2008, he was awarded Lannan Foundation’s Literary Fellowship. In 2009, poems from his new manuscript, Deaf Republic, were awarded Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize. His anthology of 20th century poetry in translation, Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, was published by Harper Collins in March, 2010.

her twenty – four books include her Beat memoir, How I Became Hettie Jones; Drive, which won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award; Big Star Fallin’ Mama, (Five Women in Black Music), honored by the New York Public Library; No Woman No Cry, a memoir she authored for Bob Marley’s widow, Rita; From Midnight to Dawn, the Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad (with Jacqueline Tobin); and a third poetry collection, Doing 70. Her short prose has been published in Fence, The Village Voice, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She is the former Chair of the PEN Prison Writing Committee, and the editor of Aliens At The Border, a poetry collection from her workshop (1989–2002) at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women at Bedford Hills. She currently teaches in the Graduate Writing Program of the New School and at the 92nd St. Y Poetry Center, and serves on the PEN Advisory Council.

is a Los Angeles based poet, translator, interpreter, teacher, knitter, bookmaker, public letter – writer, and urban cyclist. Her most recent books are the homemade chapbook Lead & Tether (Dusie Kollektiv, 2011); Ivory Black, a translation of Negro marfil by Myriam Moscona (Les Figues Press, 2011); a series of anti – war – manifesto poems titled one (Palm Press, 2009); sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, a translation from Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008); The Route, a collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008); and lip wolf, a translation of lobo de labio by Laura Solórzano (Action Books, 2007). Recent poems and translations have appeared in Aufgabe, Mandorla, Or, out of nothing, and TRY. She teaches at CalArts, Goddard College, and Otis College, and works nationally and locally as a social justice interpreter. She is a founding member of the City of Angels Ladies’ Bicycle Association, also known as The Whirly Girls.