Claire Scott: is an award winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Enizagam and Healing Muse among others. She is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t, and is the co–author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.

Lucas Pingel: has published three previous chapbooks; most recently, Yes, I’m Sure This Was a Beautiful Place. Some of his book reviews have been featured in Heavy Feather Review and Cant. He lives in the Twin Cities, where he is an assistant professor at St. Catherine University and curates the Talking Image Connection reading series.

Tom Pickard: is a poet and documentary film maker who was an important initiator of the movement known as the British Poetry Revival.

Harry Nudel: was born in a displaced persons camp in 1946, 60 miles from Auschwitz, and arrived in the U.S.A. in 1949. He earned his B.A. from City College of New York, his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and has been poeting since he was 16. Described by Ted Joans “as the true last . . . Beat Poet.”