Michael Palma’s poetry collections include A Fortune in Gold, Begin in Gladness, and the forthcoming Local Colors. He has also published Faithful in My Fashion: Essays on the Translation of Poetry. His more than twenty translations from Italian poets include a terza rima translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy published by Liveright in 2024.

Paul Marion: is the author of Union River: Poems and Sketches and Lockdown Letters & Other Poems as well as the editor of Jack Kerouac’s early writing, Atop an Underwood (Viking/Penguin). His most recent book is Portraits Along the Way, fifty profiles of memorable persons he has encountered, some well-known and others not household names. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Cholla Needles, So It Goes, The Café Review, and Massachusetts Review. He lives in Amesbury, MA.

Alexander M. Koch: lives in the woods of Unity, Maine, where he has a small farm and raises Angora goats for fiber production and chickens for eggs. He spends his free time, depending on the season, reading, tending his orchard and gardens, with his cats, and writing. His work has appeared in The Avocet, Dovecote Magazine, little somethings press, Red River Review, the Kerf, Malus, and elsewhere. 

Ron Kolm: is the author of Suburban Ambush, A Change in the Weather, Welcome to the Barbecue, Swimming in the Shallow End, The Bookstore Book: A Memoir and The Verities of Love. He’s had work in Gathering of the Tribes, Maintenant, Live Mag!, Local Knowledge, NYC From the Inside, The Opiate, The Red Wheelbarrow, Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts and the Brownstone Poets anthologies. Ron’s papers were purchased by the New York University Library.