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Eleni Sikelianos received an M.F.A. in Writing & Poetics from the Naropa Institute. She is the author of Body Clock (Coffee House Press, 2008), The Book of Jon (City Lights Publishers, 2004), The California Poem (Coffee House Press, 2004), Earliest Worlds (2001), The Book of Tendons (1997), and To Speak While Dreaming (1993). She is also the author of a number of chapbooks, including From Blue Guide (1999), The Lover’s Numbers, and Poetics of the X (1995). She has received the NEA Fellowship for Poetry, a Fulbright Fellowship, and two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Writing. She currently teaches at Naropa University and the University of Denver.

Anne Waldman is the author of more than 40 collections of poetry and poetics, most recently Manatee/Humanity (Penguin, 2009). Her publications include Fast Speaking Woman (1975), Marriage: A Sentence (2000), and the anti-war feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (1992-1997). Her honors include grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She was “poet in residence” with Bob Dylan’s famed concert tour, the Rolling Thunder Revue, in 1975–76. She was one of the founders and directors of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery. In 1974, with Allen Ginsberg, Waldman founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She is active with OCCUPY ART, an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street, in New York City.