Elaine Equi’s: latest book is Out of the Blank, from Coffee House Press, 2025. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Brooklyn Rail, Big Other, Plume, New American Writing, The New Yorker, and many other journals. In 2023 she was guest editor of the annual anthology Best American Poetry. She lives in New York City.

Jim Dunn: is the author of Angry Bull’s Cadence (Bodily Press, 2024), This Silence is a Junkyard (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), Soft Launch (Bootstrap Press/Pressed Wafer, 2008), Convenient Hole (Pressed Wafer, 2004), and Insects in Sex (Fallen Angel Press, 1995). His work has appeared in Castle Grayskull, Blazing Stadium, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Bright Pink Mosquito, The Process, eagh, Gerry Mulligan, Café Review, Meanie, and the anthology tribute to John Wieners, The Blind See Only This World . He lives in Beverly MA.

Craig Cotter: was born in 1960 in New York and has lived in California since 1986. His poems have appeared in hundreds of journals in the U.S., France, Italy, the Czech Republic, the U.K., Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, India and Ireland. Books include The Aroma of Toast, Chopstix Numbers, and After Lunch with Frank O’Hara.

Janay Cosner: is a poet who writes personal poetry. She deals with life’s suffering through poetry. Her book “Dancing with Breast Cancer” offers snapshots of her cancer journey. Now, she is a widow, so watch for “howling” poems. Janay lives in Naples, FL, and near the Chautauqua Institution, NY during the summer.