BIO Robert Pinsky’s recent book of poetry is his Selected Poems. Other publications include his best-selling translation The Inferno of Dante and The Life of David, a prose account of the Biblical king. As Poet Laureate of the United States, he founded the Favorite Poem Project, with the videos at www.favoritepoem.org. . FLOWERS The little…

BIO . .Jennifer Reeser is the author of four full-length poetry collections. Former editor of The Paris Review, X. J. Kennedy, wrote that her debut collection, An Alabaster Flask, (winner of the Word Press First Book Prize), “ought to have been a candidate for a Pulitzer.” Her third book, Sonnets from the Dark Lady and…

BIO Co-founder of the Mystic Boxing Commission, Daniel Yaryan is a poet, writer, graphic designer and event producer. He founded Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts, resurrected Poetry Festival Santa Cruz in 2012 and was regarded by the late Los Angeles poet Wanda Coleman as “one of the new generation of poetry mavens.” Yaryan is a devout…

   BIO Charles Harper Webb’s latest book, What Things Are Made Of, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2013.  He is the author of Shadow Ball (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009) and Amplified Dog (Red Hen Press, 2006). He earned a BA in English from Rice University, an MA in English from the University…

  BIO  . James Ragan is an internationally recognized poet, playwright, and essayist. Translated into 12 languages, he has authored 8 books of poetry including In the Talking Hours, Womb-Weary, The Hunger Wall, Lusions, Selected Poetry, Too Long a Solitude, The World Shouldering I,  To Sing Us Out of Silence, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Collected Poems (co-editor)  He has read for six heads…

BIO Born in the island of Cyprus and living in Western Australia, poet and writer Athina Merkouris is a graduate from Bentley College in Perth. She is a freelance writer and a blogger featured in many online magazines and print media. She is also a film critic at Film and Festival Reviews magazine and an…