Vincent Katz is well known in the United States and abroad as a poet, critic, and curator, as well as a translator. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Broadway for Paul (Alfred A. Knopf), Southness (Lunar Chandelier Press), Swimming Home (Nightboat Books), Understanding Objects (Hard Press), Pearl (powerHouse Books) and Cabal of Zealots (Hanuman Books). He is the author of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius, which received the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. He has curated exhibitions on Black Mountain College and Rudy Burckhardt and recently co-curated a retrospective of the films of Isabelle Huppert at Film Forum in New York City. His writing on contemporary art and poetry has appeared in Apollo, Art in America, ARTnews, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. From 2010 to 2021, Katz curated "Readings in Contemporary Poetry" series at Dia: Chelsea in New York City, and he edited the anthology Readings in Contemporary Poetry (Dia)

ANDREI CODRESCU was born in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania, and emigrated to the United States in 1966. He is the author of numerous books: poems, novels, and essays. He founded Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books and Ideas. He was a regular commentator on NPR's All Things Considered. He taught literature and poetry at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Baltimore, and Louisiana State University. For more information on Andrei Codrescu's current writings and projects please visit: www.codrescu.com