Carter Ratcliff:  his books of poetry include Fever Coast, Give Me Tomorrow, and Arrivederci, Modernismo.  He published his first novel, Tequila Mockingbird, in 2015.  Among his writings on art are The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art and monographs on Alex Katz, John Singer Sargent, and Andy Warhol.  He is an adviser to the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and a Contributing Editor of Art in America.

Ron Padgett:  How Long was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and his Collected Poems won the L.A. Times Prize for the best poetry book of 2014 and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, from whom he also received the Frost medal.  His translations include Zone: Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars’ Complete Poems. His poems were used in Jim Jarmusch’s film, Paterson.

Maureen Owen:  former editor and chief of Telephone Magazine and Telephone Books, is the author of Erosion’s Pull from Coffee House Press, American Rush: Selected Poems, and her work AE (Amelia Earhart) was a recipient of the prestigious Before Columbus American Book Award.  She taught at the Naropa University, Creative Writing Program, in Naropa’s Summer Writing Program.  Her newest title Edges of Water is available from Chax Press.  For her Poets on the Road Tour with Barbara Henning: http:// barbarahenning.com /category /maureenowen /

Valerie Oisteanu:  is a poet, writer, and artist of the avant-garde. Born in USSR (1943) and educated in Romania.  At the age of 20, he adopted Dada and Surrealism as a philosophy of art and life.  He is the author of 18 books of poetry.  Two new books are, In the Blink of a Third Eye (Spuyten Duyvil Press NYC, 2020) and Perks in Purgatory (translated in Romanian) Itaca Publishing Dublin 2020, which was chosen best poetry book of the year in diaspora.  He is known as The Voice of East Village.  His website: zen-dada.com