Joel Sloman:  was born in Brooklyn in 1943.  He is the author of Virgil’s Machines (1966), Bus Poems (1992), Stops (1997), and Cuban Journal (2000).  In 1966 he became the first Assistant Director of the Poetry Project.  Since 1969, he has lived in Medford, Massachusetts.

James Sherry:  is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose, most recently, Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) and Entangled Bank (Chax Press, 2016).  Since 1976, he has edited Roof Books and Roof Magazine, publishing nearly 200 titles of seminal works of language writing, flarf, conceptual poetry, new narrative, and environmental poetry. He started The Segue Foundation, Inc. in 1977, producing over 10,000 events of poetry and other arts in NYC.

Harris Schiff:  born in 1944, NYC.  First publication, 1963, Open Space, San Francisco, CA.  He was a significant early contributor to The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church (1969 – 82) in NYC. Has read his work at venues across the U.S., Europe, and Central America.  Books Include In the Heart of the Empire (1979) and One More Beat (2010).  Doggedly maintaining true hippie utopian values (Peace and Love) since 1961.

Tom Savage:  is the author of ten books of poetry, including Afghanistan, Brainlifts, Housing Preservation and Development, and Political Conditions /Physical States.  His work has appeared in the New York Times, The World, Talisman, Hanging Loose and Gathering of the Tribes.  In the mid nineteen-eighties he edited the magazine Gandhabba.  He has taught workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s church, where he has also given many readings.