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.

Ed Sanders:  is a poet, musician, and writer of the “Investigative Poetry” manifesto.  He is currently writing a personal history, “The New Amazing Grace — 1992– 2004,” and is working with filmmaker Chuck Smith (movie on Barbara Rubin) on a documentary history of The Fugs.

Bob Rosenthal:  (b. 1950).  Straight Around Allen: On the Business of Being Allen Ginsberg, Beatdom Books, 2019; Cleaning Up New York, republished Little Book Room, 2016.  Books of poetry: Morning Poems, Lies About the Flesh, Rude Awakenings, Viburnum, and Eleven Psalms; plays co-written with Bob Holman: The Cause of Gravity, The Whore of the Alpines, Bicentennial Suicide, Clear The Range.  He was Allen Ginsberg’s Secretary 1977–1997 and is executor of his estate, 1997– Present.

Iris Rifkin-Gainer:  was fortunate to be a student at age three in the Museum of Modern Art’s children’s classes in NYC.  In the same year, she began Creative Dance classes and thus her sensibilities were formed.  Early writing includes a History of Poland (age 6) and a tragedy (untitled) in which everyone dies.  She has long been a Dance Therapist in the U.S. with visits to the U.K. and China.  She treasures her involvement in the late 1960s with members of the St. Marks Poetry Project.