Gino Sky: has published fourteen books: a collection of stories entitled Near the Postcard Beautiful; the Rocky Mountain cult classic Appaloosa Rising; The Legend of the Cowboy Buddha, as well as its sequel Coyote Silk. He was also the co–editor of the famous underground literary magazine of the 50’s and 60’s Wild Dog, that published such writers as Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Buckminister Fuller, Robert Creeley, Richard Brautigan, Denise Levertov, and Diane Wakoski. His latest book, Wild Dog Days, is a chronicle of that mimeograph magazine, accompanied with a poem of healing for the Vietnam War.

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

Margaret Randall: is a poet, essayist, oral historian, translator, memoirist, and photographer who has published over 150 books of poetry and prose, including Exporting Revolution: Cuba’s Global Solidarity; Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression; and Che on My Mind, all published by Duke University Press. She was awarded the Poet of Two Hemispheres Prize by Poesía en Paralelo Cero in Quito, Ecuador, and Cuba’s Haydée Santamaría medal, and the University of New Mexico gave her an honorary doctorate of letters, all in 2019. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

George Quasha: (born 1942) is an American artist and poet who works across media, exploring language, sculpture, drawing, video art, sound and music, installation, and performance. He lives and works in Barrytown, New York. Solo exhibitions of his “axial stones” and “axial drawings” have taken place at the Baumgartner Gallery in New York (Chelsea), the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. This work is also featured in the book, Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance, foreword by Carter Ratcliff (North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, 2006). In 2006 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in video art.