Clifford Fyman: was born in 1954 in Greenwich Village. In the fall of 1976 he attended the first S.F. Poetry Festival and heard Anne Waldman announce from the stage the beginning of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder. He rode a Greyhound bus through a blizzard in Wyoming to Colorado, and studied at the Kerouac School that spring and summer.

Elizabeth Crowell: grew up in northern New Jersey and has a B.A. from Smith College in English Literature and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from Columbia University. Her work has been included in Bellevue Literary Review, Tishman Review, Raven’s Edge, Amethyst, and Levee Magazine.

George Bowering: not totally on purpose, he is a senior poet, but is continuing to emit poetry etc. in the age of ill health and fewer book reviews. In March 2021 New Star Books published Soft Zipper: Objects, Food, Rooms. In June 2021, they will publish Could Be: New Poems. He is currently writing a prose memoir set in La Manzanilla, Jalisco.

Stephen Bett: is a widely and internationally published Canadian poet with 24 books in print. His personal papers are archived in the “Contemporary Literature Collection” at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. His website is stephenbett.com