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Jill R. Burkey

Jill Burkey’s work won the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, and her poems, which have been called “warm, complex, and intensely satisfying,” have appeared in Deep Wild Journal, Front Range Review, Paddlefish, Pilgrimage, Plainsongs, Sixfold, Soundings Review, and others. Jill grew up on a three-generation cattle ranch in western Nebraska and began her education in a one-room schoolhouse. She later attended Nebraska Wesleyan University where she earned a BA in English and business with endorsements in secondary education. As a writer-in-residence for Colorado Humanities’ Writers-in-the-Schools program, Jill taught poetry and writing to hundreds of elementary and high school students on the Western Slope of Colorado where she lives with her family and runs her own business. 

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Gregory Corso

Gregory Corso (1930-2001) was a founding member of the Beat Generation, and for over fifty years one of America’s most popular and beloved poets. He was the author of over a dozen books of poetry and one novel, in addition to posthumously published collections of plays, interviews and correspondence. His book, The Golden Dot: Last Poems, 1997-2000, edited by Raymond Foye and George Scrivani, will be published in Spring 2022 by Lithic Press.

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David Meltzer

Musician, scholar, teacher, editor, critic but known most as a poet, David Meltzer's work encompassed everything from pop culture to jazz to Kabbalah. He arrived in North Beach during the Beat heyday in San Francisco, achieving early acclaim as the youngest poet in Donald Allen's influential anthology, The New American Poetry, 1945- 1960. His more than fifteen books of poetry include TWO WAY MIRROR: A POETRY NOTEBOOK (City Lights, 2015), WHEN I WAS A POET (City Lights, 2011) and David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer (Penguin, 2005).

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Abdellatif Laâbi

Abdellatif Laâbi is one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed contemporary writers from North Africa. Laâbi was born in 1942 in Fez, Morocco, under the French Protectorate. A decade after Morocco gained independence from France, Laâbi founded the renowned literary magazine Souffles, a socio- political journal that merged Moroccan creative energies in a linguistic and artistic revolution that spread throughout the Maghreb. The journal was eventually banned due to its insurgent nature, and Laâbi was imprisoned and tortured for his political beliefs and his writings. Much of his work is influenced by his time in prison and the exile he was forced into upon his release.

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Martha Ronk

Martha Ronk is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently a book on photographs, Ocular Proof. Her collection, Transfer of Qualities, was longlisted for the National Book Award and named an NPR notable book in 2013. Vertigo (Coffee House), influenced by W. G. Sebald's work of the same name, was selected for the 2007 National Poetry Series. Her book, Silences, was published by Omnidawn in 2019. 

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