Ed Sanders: is a poet, performer, and publisher best known for founding the radical journal Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts and co-founding the band The Fugs. He pioneered the Investigative Poetry movement with his 1976 manifesto and went on to write book-length historical poems including Chekhov, 1968, and the multi-volume America: A History in Verse. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a NEA Fellowship, and won an American Book Award for Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century. A tireless voice for political and poetic experimentation, Sanders continues to write and publish from Woodstock, New York.

John Roche: lives in Placitas, NM, helping run Jules’ Poetry Playhouse and edit Poetry Playhouse Publications. Along with editing the five-volume Poets Speak series, his poetry books include On Conesus, Topicalities, Road Ghosts, The Joe Poems, Joe Rides Again: Further Adventures of Joe the Poet, and the latest, Tubbables.

Tina Posner: has published poems in Ocean State Review, EcoTheo Review, Autofocus, Switchgrass Review, Ashes to Stardust (Sybaritic Press, 2023), and Resist Much, Obey Little (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017) and poetry books for classroom use. An NYC expat and long-time resident of Austin, TX, she currently lives in San Diego, CA.

Alice Notley: is associated with the Second Generation New York School. She authored over 40 books, including The Descent of Alette, Mysteries of Small Houses (Los Angeles Times Book Prize), and Disobedience (Griffin Poetry Prize). A Pulitzer Prize finalist and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize recipient, Notley lived in Paris and taught widely.