Albert Glover: was one of the creators of the Institute of Further Studies during the fall of 1965 in Buffalo, NY, when George Butterick, John Clarke, Albert Glover, and Fred Wah decided to continue their work with Olson after Olson had left SUNY-Buffalo and returned to Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Natalie Diaz: is a Mojave poet and member of the Gila River Indian Tribe, who won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Post-Colonial Love Poem. She is the author of two poetry collections, Post-Colonial Love Poem (Graywolf, 2020), winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, and When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press 2012). She has received many honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Mellon Fellowship, a USA fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, a New School Fellowship, and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. She has also been the Rosenkranz Visiting Writer at Yale. Her work has been widely translated, including into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Polish and Slovenian.

Adam Cornford: is a British poet, journalist, and essayist and a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. From 1987 to 2008 he led the Poetics Program at New College of California in San Francisco, United States.

David Cope: is a former Grand Rapids Michigan Poet Laureate (2011-2014) and Pushcart Prize winner (1977). He is the author of over nine books and was a longtime editor of Big Scream magazine. His work has appeared internationally, including translations in China. In 2021, he published The Correspondence of David Cope and Allen Ginsberg. Currently, he is working on The Night Blooming Cereus: Later Poems 2003-2024, to be published by Jabber Publications. The David Cope Papers are maintained at the University of Michigan Special Collections Resource Center, and his webpage, The Dave Cope Sampler, is online at the Museum of American Poetics.