John (Jack) Clarke: was a poet, jazz musician, and scholar of William Blake and Charles Olson. As director of the Institute of Further Studies (founded in 1965 with George F. Butterick, Fred Wah, and Albert Glover), he and Albert Glover oversaw the publication of A Curriculum of the Soul, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016) a serial epic homage to Olson, based on his poem of the same name, which gathers the work of 28 of Olson’s companions in poetry. He received the Ohioanna Award and a NYFA Fellowship.

Michael Boughn: is a poet whose most recent books include The Book of Uncertain—A Hyperbiographical User’s Manual Book 2 (shuffaloff, 2025, in an edition of 25 copies), The Book of Uncertain—A Hyperbiographical User’s Manual Book 1 (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022) and Uncertain Remains (BlazeVox, 2022). Cosmographia—A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic (Book Thug, 2011) was shortlisted for the Canadian Governor General’s Award for Poetry. He co-edited Robert Duncan’s The H.D. Book for the University of California Press, and with Kent Johnson produced the online disturbance, Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, from 2014 till 2019. Measure’s Measure—Poetry and Knowledges, a book of essays, was published by Station Hill Press in 2024. He lives in Toronto. His website can be found at https://www.razzamatootie.ca.

Bruce Bond: is the author of more than 30 books, including Patmos (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021); Behemoth (Encounter Books, 2021); Liberation of Dissonance (Schaffner Press, 2022); Choreomania (MadHat Press, 2023); Invention of the Wilderness (LSU Press, 2023); Therapon, written with Dan Beachy-Quick (Tupelo Press, 2023); Vault (The Ashland Poetry Press, 2023); Lunette (Green Linden Press, 2024); and The Dove of the Morning News (University of Nevada Press, 2024).

Lucy Adkins: Lucy Adkins is a Nebraska poet and author of One Life Shining and Writing in Community. Her work appears in journals such as Rhino, South Dakota Review, and several anthologies. She lives in Nebraska and writes about rural life, creativity, and resilienc