Tony Towle: began his connection to the New York School of Poetry in 1963, when he took workshops at the New School with Kenneth Koch and Frank O’Hara. He has published thirteen books of poetry since then; most recently Noir (Hanging Loose Press, 2017) and two books of prose; Memoir 1960–1963 (Faux Press, 2001), and My First Three Books (Vehicle Editions, 2020). He has received a fellowship from the National Foundation of the Arts and an award in Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among other honors and prizes.

Richard Taylor: grew up amidst farms, woods, and water in rural New Hampshire. Following Dartmouth University and the Army, he was a member of the 1964 Olympic Nordic Ski Team. University of Kiel (Fulbright Fellowship) and Yale University lead to college teaching German language and literature. In 1987, at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine, he established a year-round training program for high school age cross-country skiers and taught German, Latin, and world literature. His first book, The Absence of Strangers, was published by Goose River Press in 2017. Footfalls of the Unknown, also with Goose River Press was published this spring. He and his wife Sally live in Bethel, Maine.

Charles Stein: teaches art writing at the MFA program of the School of Visual Arts, New York. His work comprises a complexly integrated field of poems, philosophy, art theory, mathematics, translations from ancient Greek, drawings, photographs, lectures, conversations, and music performances. Born in 1944 in New York City, he is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Black Light Casts White Shadows (Lunar Chandelier Collective, 2018), From Mimir’s Head (Station Hill Press), a verse translation of The Odyssey (North Atlantic Books). His prose writings include a vision of the Eleusinian Mysteries, Persephone Unveiled (North Atlantic Books), a critical study of poet Charles Olson’s use of the writing of C.G. Jung. He holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Connecticut and lives in Barrytown, NY.

Yuyutsu Sharma: is the recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, and is a world renowned Himalayan poet and translator. He has published ten poetry collections including, The Second Buddha Walk, (2018); A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, (2018); Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems, (2017); Nepal Trilogy. Half the year, he travels, reads all over the world, and conducts Creative Writing workshops, but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. Currently, he is a visiting poet at Columbia University and edits, Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.