<h4>Sam Hamill is an American poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson. He is the initiator of the Poets Against War movement, which he set up in response to the Iraq War, and has been awarded the Stanley Lindberg Lifetime Achievement Award for Editing and the Washington Poets Association Lifetime Achievement Award.</h4>

Sam Hamill

<h4>Ada Limón is the author of three books of poetry, <em>Lucky Wreck,</em> <em>This Big Fake World,</em> and<em>Sharks in the Rivers</em>. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from New York University where she studied with Philip Levine, Sharon Olds, Mark Doty, and Marie Howe among others. Limón has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and was one of the judges for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry.</h4>

Ada Limón

<h4>Robert Wrigley is an American poet. From 1987 to 1988 he served as writer-in-residence for the state of Idaho, and he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Idaho State Commission on the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His most recent book is <em>Anatomy of Melancholy &amp; Other Poems</em>.</h4>

Robert Wrigley

<h4>Jennifer L. Knox is an American poet. She received her BA from the University of Iowa, and her MFA in poetry writing from New York University. She has taught poetry writing at Hunter College and New York University. Her new book of poems, <em>Days of Shame and Failure</em>, will be published by Bloof Books in 2015.</h4>

Jennifer L. Knox

<h4>C. Dale Young practices medicine full-time, serves as Poetry Editor of the <i>New England Review</i>, and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of <i>The Day Underneath the Day</i> (TriQuarterlyBooks, 2001), <i>The Second Person</i> (Four Way Books, 2007), and <i>Torn </i>(Four Way Books, 2011).</h4>

C. Dale Young

<strong>Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Diaz teaches at Arizona State University, and her first poetry collection is <em>When My Brother Was an Aztec</em>. [Photo by Cybele Knowles.]</strong>

Natalie Diaz

<h4><strong>Dana Levin is the author of <em>In the Surgical Theatre</em>, <em>Wedding Day</em>, and <em>Sky Burial</em>, which was noted for 2011 year-end honors by <em>The New Yorker</em>, the <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>, <em>Library Journal</em>, and <em>Coldfront</em> <em>Magazine</em>. A recipient of fellowships from the Rona Jaffe, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations, Levin chairs the Creative Writing and Literature Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.</strong></h4>

Dana Levin

<h4><strong>Lytton Smith is Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Plymouth University. He is the author of a book of poems, <em>The All-Purpose Magical Tent</em>, and two translated novels from the Icelandic.</strong></h4>

Lytton Smith

On Galway Kinnell 

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

C. Dale Young practices medicine full-time, serves as Poetry Editor of the <i>New England Review</i>, and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of <i>The Day Underneath the Day</i> (TriQuarterlyBooks, 2001), <i>The Second Person</i> (Four Way Books, 2007), and <i>Torn </i>(Four Way Books, 2011).