Glen Baxter:  in 1973 he sent some of his prose poems to Larry Fagin at Adventures in Poetry in New York.  One year later he was invited to read at the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, where he met John Ashbery, Harry Matthews, Anne Waldman, Rudy Butckhardt, and Ron Padgett.  Later that year he had his first exhibition at the Gotham Book Mart Gallery and fate was sealed.

Andrew Abbott:  attended the University of North Carolina (Wilmington) where he failed beginning Ceramics twice.  Born in Nova Scotia, grew up in North Carolina, served in the U.S. Army, as a medic, for 3.5 years.  Has lived in Nigeria, Maine, Spain, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Louisiana, etc.  He currently resides in Brooklyn with his wife Natalia who is very good at ceramics. andrewabbott.org

Joe Brainard:  (1942–1994) was an American visual artist and writer.  His I Remember, an underground classic, emerged to a large public as part of his Collected Writings, published by the Library of America.  His art work, which can be found in the collections of major museums, is represented by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York.  In the fall of 2022 Rizzoli will publish Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal  by John Yau.

Michael Rothenberg:  poet, editor, and artist, is co-founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change.  His most recent books of poetry, In Memory of A Banyan Tree, Poems of the Outside World, 1985– 2020, (Lost Horse Press) and Wildflowers for The Bullies (FlowerSong Press), will be published in 2022.  He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.