Anne Waldman is an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement, and has been connected to the Beat movement and the second generation of the New York School. She has published over forty books of poetry.

Billy Collins is perhaps the best know poet in the US. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry, former US poet Laureate, distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York and Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Winter Park Institute of Rollins College.

Ellen Bass was born in Philadelphia and grew up in New Jersey. She received a BA from Goucher College and an MA in creative writing from Boston University, where she studied with Anne Sexton.

Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten books of poems, including, Foreign Bodies (2020); Brain Fever (2014), and Toxic Flora (2010), The narrow Road to the Interior (2006), and The Unbearable Heart (1996).

Major Jackson is an American poet, professor and the author of five collections of poetry.

Mark Doty is a renowned author of four memoirs and nine books of poetry, including Deep Lane, published in 2018.

Michael Dickman earned a BA at the University of Oregon and received his MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. He now teaches poetry at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.

Monica Youn is the author of three books of poetry, most recently BLACKACRE (Graywolf Press 2016), which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America.

Robert Pinsky is a poet, essayist, translator, teacher, and speaker. His first two terms as United States Poet Laureate were marked by such visible dynamism—and such national enthusiasm in response—that the Library of Congress appointed him to an unprecedented third term.

Multi-award-winning poet, author, screenwriter, academic, translator, and journalist.

Shane McCrae teaches at Columbia University and is the author of seven poetry collections, including Sometimes I Never Suffered (2020), and The Gilded Auction Block (2019).

Tracy K. Smith is the author of four collections of poetry, including "Life on Mars," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. In 2017 and again in 2018 she was named US Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress.