Ed Sanders
Ed Sanders is an Investigative Poet, composer, historian and Glyph Artist, whose roots go back to the Beats. During the Vietnam War, he founded the Peace Eye Bookstore on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, which became a center for the Mimeograph Revolution. He was also a founding member of the satiric folk-rock band the Fugs as well as the Yippies. (The Fugs recently held an Exorcism of the White House at the Lincoln Memorial in D.C.) He has received Guggenheim and National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships as well as a poetry fellowship from the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts. He is the author of numerous works of poetry and nonfiction, including Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Selected Poems, 1961—1985, winner of an American Book Award, 1968: A History in Verse, and the nonfiction work The Family, about Charles Manson and his dystopic communal family. His current book is Broken Glory, the Final Years of Robert F. Kennedy. He lives in Woodstock, New York with his artist / writer wife Miriam.
Thaddeus Rutkowski
Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of the books Guess and Check, Violent Outbursts, Haywire, Tetched, and Roughhome. Haywire won the Members’ Choice Award, given by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, Medgar Evers College, and the Writer’s Voice of the West Side YMCA in New York City. He received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
James Miller Robinson
James Miller Robinson has had work in Poetry East, Xavier Review, Texas Review, Birmingham Arts Journal, Maple Leaf Rag Anthology vols. IV, V, and VI, and others. He has two chapbooks of poems: The Caterpillars at Saint Bernard and Boca del Rio in the Afternoon. He is a legal and court interpreter of Spanish registered with the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts.
Angela Patten
Angela Patten is the author of three poetry collections, In Praise of Usefulness (Wind Ridge Books, Vermont), Reliquaries, and Still Listening, both from Salmon Poetry, Ireland, and a prose memoir, High Tea at a Low Table (Wind Ridge Books). Her work has been published in a variety of literary journals and anthologies. In 2016 she was the winner of the National Poetry Prize from the Cape Cod Cultural Center. Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, she now lives in Burlington, Vermont, where she is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Vermont English Department.