Jonathan Bracker: has had poems in The New Yorker, Poetry Northwest, and Writer’s Digest.  His Concerning Poetry: Poems About Poetry was published by Upper Hand Press. He is the editor of Bright Cages: The Selected Poems of Christopher Morley and A Little Patch of Shepherd’s–Thyme: Prose Passages of Thomas Hardy Arranged as Verse.

Cynthia Knorr: relocated from New York City, where she was a medical writer, to rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Adanna, The Aurorean, Evening Street Review, Shot Glass Journal, Healing Muse. She was awarded First Prize in both the New Hampshire Poetry Society’s national and members’ contests.

George Bowering: lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and was Canada’s first Parliamentary Poet Laureate. He has, twice, won Canada’s top literary prize, the Governor General’s Award for both poetry and fiction and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2005.  He was one of the co-founders of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH.  His 36th book of poetry, The World, I Guess(New Star, 2015) shows he is still in MVP form as he approaches his 83th birthday.

William Bonfiglio: is a PhD candidate studying creative writing at the University of New Brunswick-Frederickton. His poetry has been awarded a Pearl Hogrefe Grant in Creative Writing Recognition Award, The Julia Fonville Smithson Memorial Prize, and has appeared in Sugar House Review, Briar Cliff Review, American Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere.