April 18, 2024

Rae Armantrout is retired from UC San Diego where she was professor of poetry and poetics. She is the current judge of the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Wesleyan published Notice, a chapbook about climate change, in February 2024, will publish Go Figure in September, and previously published Finalists in 2022. Her 2018 book, Wobble, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Other books with Wesleyan include Partly: New and Selected Poems, Just Saying, Money Shot, and Versed. Versed won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Stephen Roxborough is a Canadian/American dual citizen, editor/creative director for NeoPoiesis Press, author of six poetry collections, and two CDs. Most recently, Rox released Songs of a Psychic Seahorse. In 2023 a recorded collaboration with indie legend Karl Blau titled Poetica Dystopia hit the airwaves. Rox currently lives on Whidbey Island where he makes photos and poetry about sky, shadows, water, dreams, rust, music, love, and death. Visit www.stephenroxborough.com.