JAMES ARTHUR 

Canadian-American poet James Arthur is the author of The Suicide’s Son and Charms Against Lightning. His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, and The London Review of Books. He has received the Amy Lowell

Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to Northern Ireland, and a Visiting Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford. Arthur lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins

University.

LISE GOETT

Lise Goett is the author of three poetry collections: Radiant (Tupelo Press, 2024); Leprosarium (Tupelo Press, 2018), the 2012 winner of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award in Poetry from the Poetry Society of America for best manuscript-in-progress; and Waiting For the Paraclete (Beacon Press, 2002), winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. Goett’s other awards include the Paris Review/92Y Discovery Award, the PEN Southwest Book Award in Poetry, and the James D. Phelan Literary Award from the San Francisco Foundation. Goett teaches generative workshops and edits poetry manuscripts for publication out of her home in Taos, New Mexico.

MARY B. MOORE

Mary B. Moore’s newest poetry collection Amanda Chimera, winner of the Arthur Smith prize, came out in January, 2025 from Madville Publishing. Her prior poetry books include Dear If (Orison Books, 2022), a contest finalist; Flicker, (Dogfish Head Prize, 2016); The Book Of Snow, (Cleveland State U Poetry Center, 1997); and the prize-winning chapbooks Amanda and the Man Soul and Eating the Light. Poems are forthcoming in New Letters, and appeared lately in Catamaran, POETRY, South Dakota Review, Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature, Birmingham Poetry Review (BPR), NELLE, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, and more. Besides her book awards, she has won poetry prizes or placed in contests from BPR, NELLE, Terrain, and Nimrod.