Mike Alexander was an admin on the sonnet workshop at Sonnet Central in the early 2000s. Over the years, he has organized readings at several New Jersey and Texas venues. He has served as contribution editor for lyric and The Panhandler and sat on the board of Mutabilis Press.  His book of poetry, Retrograde was published in 2013 (P&J Poetics) and poems of his have appeared in literary journals, including Atlanta Review, Texas Review, Texas Observer, Measure, Rattle, River Styx, and Raintown Review.

Meredith Bergmann is an award-winning sculptor of public monuments in New York, Boston and elsewhere. Her publications include Barrow Street, Contemporary Poetry Review, Hopkins Review, Hudson Review, New Criterion, Tri Quarterly Review and several anthologies, a 2014 chapbook, A Special Education, and the 2024 self-illustrated poetry book, The Dying Flush, from EXOT Books. She was poetry editor of American Arts Quarterly from 2006-17.

Midge Goldberg is the editor of Outer Space: 100 Poems, published by Cambridge University Press, 2022. Her third collection of poetry, To Be Opened After My Death, was published by Kelsay Books in 2021. She received the Richard Wilbur Poetry Award for Snowman’s Code, and the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. Her poems, translations, essays, and reviews have been published widely.

Rachel Hadas is a poet, essayist, teacher and translator. Professor Emerita at Rutgers-Newark, where she taught for many years, she is now Original English Verse Editor of Classical Outlook and the American Poetry Editor of The Robert Graves Review. She has published over 20 books of poetry. Recent books include Pastorals (Measure Press, 2025), short lyrical prose pieces, and Ghost Guest (2023). Hadas also collaborates with her husband, Shalom Gorewitz, a video artist and filmmaker, on kinetic works combining images and poetry.

W. N. Herbert is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Newcastle University and an RSL Fellow. He was Dundee’s inaugural Makar (2013-18). Since Forked Tongue (1994), he has published six collections with Bloodaxe. He co-edited Strong Words: modern poets on modern poetry (2000) with Matthew Hollis, and Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry (2012) with Yang Lian. He has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes, among others, and in 2014 he was awarded a Cholmondeley Prize. Recent volumes include The Wreck of the Fathership (2020), Unselected Poems, and The Iconostasis of Anxiety (both 2024).

 

David M. Katz is the author of five books of poetry: The Biographer, In Praise of Manhattan, Stanzas on Oz, and Claims of Home, (all published by Dos Madres Press), and The Warrior in the Forest (House of Keys). He has also published in numerous literary journals. He is a co-host of the Morningside Poetry Series in Manhattan and posts frequently on his website, The David M. Katz Poetry Blog. He starred last year in Gully’s Paradise, an independent film by Shalom Gorewitz.

Gregory Leadbetter is Professor of Poetry at Birmingham City University. His research and criticism focus on Romantic, twentieth century and contemporary poetry and its contexts, and the history and practice of poetry more generally. His book Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) was awarded the University English Book Prize 2012. His new collection of poetry is The Infernal Garden (Nine Arches Press, 2025).

Pippa Little is a Scots poet settled in Northumberland. Her first collection, Overwintering, appeared in 2012 from Carcanet. Her third and latest book is Time Begins To Hurt  (Arc Publications, 2022). Her work has been published in print and online across the world and has been widely anthologised. She teaches a poetry writing course for the Faber Academy.

Sean O’Brien’s twelfth collection of poems, The Bonfire Party, is to be published by Picador in 2026. Recent publications include the short story collection The Long Glass (Red Squirrel) and Eye of the Island, an expanded edition of his translations (with Daniel Hahn) of poems by Corsino Fortes (Poetry Translation Centre). In autumn 2025, a pamphlet, À la Carte, is to appear from New Walk. His work has received various awards, including the T. S. Eliot, Forward and E. M. Forster Prizes. His other writings include fiction, plays, criticism and translation. His translation of Dante’s Inferno appeared in 2006, and the Collected Poems of Abai Kunanbayuli in 2021. In 2017 he was Weidenfeld Visiting Professor at St. Anne’s College Oxford. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Jerl Surratt’s poems have been published in The Amsterdam Quarterly, The Hopkins Review, Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, The New Criterion, PN Review, and in other journals and anthologies in the US, UK, and Canada. Born in rural Texas, educated by New York City, he now lives and works in upstate New York. jerlsurratt.com.

Dunstan Ward is Poet and retired professor of English at the University of London Institute in Paris, where he still lives. He is a past president of the Robert Graves Society and editor of Gravesiana, the forerunner of The Robert Graves Review. Dunstan co-edited the three volume Complete Poems of Robert Graves, with Beryl Graves. He has published three volumes of poetry, including Departures (2024).