Gerard Malanga:  was born in The Bronx in 1943.  He is the author of 14 books of poetry, the latest being The New Mélancholia & Other Poems (Bottle of Smoke Press).  His latest project is a limited edition portfolio box titled, 10 Musicians (also Bottle of Smoke Press).  He lives in the shadow of the Catskills in upstate New York with Odie, his 20-year-old cat, born cross-eyed with perfect vision.

Ron Kolm:  is a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin.  He is the author of Divine Comedy, Suburban Ambush, A Change in the Weather, Welcome to the Barbecue, and Swimming in the Shallow End.  He’s had work in And Then, The Brownstone Poets, Maintenant, Live Mag!, Local Knowledge, NYC From the Inside, The Opiate, the Poets of Queens anthology, The Red Wheelbarrow, The Silver Tongued Devil Anthology and The Café Review.  His papers were purchased by the New York University Library.

Philip Good:  his most recent chapbook, Poets In A Box or Pluto In Motion can be read online from Reality Beach.org.  He currently lives next to the Poetry State Forest.  He studied at The School for Visual Arts and Naropa Institute.

John Godfrey:  was born beside the St. Lawrence River in Massena, N.Y. in 1945.  He dedicated himself to writing poems in 1965 while in college near NYC and became familiar with New York writing of the time and met the East Village poets.  He remains in the East Village since the late ’60s.  Sixteen of his collections have been published, most recently The City Keeps: Selected and New Poems 1966 – 2014 (Wave Books, 2016) and A Torch for Orphans (Cuneiform Press, 2020).