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Originally from Providence, Rhode Island, Clark Coolidge is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, including A Book Beginning What and Ending Away, Selected Poems: 1962-1985, The Land of All Time and To the Cold Heart. In 2011, he edited Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations for University of California Press. Initially a drummer, he was a member of David Meltzer’s Serpent Power in 1967 and Mix group in 1993–1994. More recently, Coolidge has performed duos with Thurston Moore (Among the Poetry Stricken, on Fast Speaking Music) and free improv with Ouroboros. He now lives in Petaluma, California. 

Peter Gizzi is the author of many books of poetry, including In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987–2011. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He lives in Melrose, Massachusetts.

Jason Morris was born and raised in Vermont. He is the author of ten books and chapbooks, including Low Life (Bird & Beckett Books, 2021); Different Darknesses (FMSBW, 2019); Levon Helm (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), and Spirits & Anchors (Auguste Presse, 2010). He lives in San Francisco, California.

Garrett Caples is a poet and an editor for City Lights Books, where he curates the Spotlight Poetry Series. He is also the co-editor of the Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia, editor of Preserving Fire: Selected Prose by Philip Lamantia, and author of the poetry collection Lovers of Today (2021). He lives in San Francisco, CA.