Sotère Torregian:  born in 1941, is an American poet of Sicilian, Ethiopian, Arabic, Greek, Armenian, and Moorish ancestry.  He is associated with the New York School of poets and painters and has taught at the Free University of New York, Santa Clara University, and Stanford University where he helped establish the Afro-American studies program in 1969.  He is the author of seventeen books of poetry.  He currently resides in Stockton, California.

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.