Matthew Guennette:  received his MFA from Southern Illinois University.  He is the author of three poetry collections: Vasectomania (2017) and American Busboy (2011) both from the University of Akron Press, and Sudden Anthem (2008) from Dream Horse Press.  He lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife, two children, and twenty-pound cat named Butternut.

Larry Goodell:  was born in Roswell, New Mexico in 1935 and has been in Placitas since 1963.  He studied at USC in Los Angeles, studied with Robert Creeley in NM, went to the Vancouver Poetry Conference of 1963 to study with Olson, Ginsberg, Duncan, Whalen, went to the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, and married photographer /artist Lenore Goodell in 1968.  He founded Duende Press in 1964.  He dedicates this poem to the newly-elected President of the Republic of Chile: Gabriel Boric.  Long ago, poets conceived of a flower that did not fade and named it amaranth.  And to be “amaranthine” is to be undying.

Gloria Frym:  lives in Berkeley, California.  Her most recent book is How Proust Ruined My Life & Other Essays (BlazeVOX, 2020). The True Patriot, a collection of proses, from Spuyten Duyvil came out in 2015.  She is the author of the short story collections, Distance No Object (City Lights Books), and How I Learned (Coffee House Press) — as well as many volumes of poetry.  Her book Homeless at Home received an American Book Award.  She teaches in the MFA Writing Program and the Writing & Literature Program at California College of the Arts.

Eric Forsbergh:  his poetry has appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Neurology, The Café Review, Zeotrope Press, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and The Northern Virginia Review, which awarded him a Pushcart Nomination in 2016.  He is a Vietnam veteran and a dentist, currently giving COVID-19 vaccinations as a volunteer for the county public health department.