Jerome Rothenberg: is an internationally known poet, translator, performance artist, and anthologist with over eighty books of poetry and essays including ten in print from New Directions. His anthologies include Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and the three–volume Poems for the Millennium. He has been the recipient of many honors, including an American Book Award, two PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Awards, and two PEN Center USA West Translation Awards. In 2011 he received the prestigious Medalla al Mérito Literario from the International Chihuahua Poetry Festival in Mexico.

Dan Raphael: born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, schooled at Cornell University, Bowling Green State University, and Western Washington University, he been active in the Northwest for four decades as poet, performer, publisher, and reading host. He is the author of 20 other published poetry collections, including Everyone in This Movie Gets Paid (Last Word Press) The State I’m In (nine muses books, Winston, Oregon) and Impulse & Warp: The Selected 20th Century Poems (Wordcraft of Oregon). He has given over 200 readings at universities, book stores, festivals, bars, and coffeehouses.

Jane Pfefferkorn: grew up in Iowa. She received a B.A. from Cornell College, an M.A. from Wake Forest University and a Ph.D. from UNC Greensboro. She managed the arts programs and the summer enrichment programs for the Winston–Salem / Forsyth County Schools for many years before retiring to visual art and poetry. She lives in Winston–Salem with her lawyer husband. They have three children and four grandchildren.

Miho Nonaka: is a bilingual poet from Tokyo. She is the author of The Museum of Small Bones (Ashland Poetry Press, 2020) and the Japanese translator of Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris (KADOKAWA, 2021). Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, Southern Review, Iowa Review, Copper Nickel, and American Odysseys: Writings by New Americans. She teaches literature and creative writing at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.