Jean Nordhaus

Luther Jett

Jean Nordhaus

Jean Nordhaus’s previous books of poetry include Memos from the Broken World (Mayapple Press), My Life in Hiding (Quarterly Review of Literature), The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn (Milkweed Editions), and Innocence, winner of the Charles B. Wheeler Award (Ohio State University Press).  She has served as poetry coordinator at the Folger Shakespeare Library, President of Washington Writers’ Publishing House, and as Review Editor of Poet Lore. She lives in Washington, DC.

Luther Jett

W. Luther Jett is a native of Montgomery County, Maryland and a retired special educator. His poetry has been published in numerous journals as well as several anthologies. His poetry performance piece, Flying to America, debuted at the 2009 Capital Fringe Festival in Washington D.C. He is the author of five poetry chapbooks: “Not Quite: Poems Written in Search of My Father”, (Finishing Line Press, 2015), and “Our Situation”, (Prolific Press, 2018), “Everyone Disappears” (Finishing Line Press, 2020), “Little Wars” (Kelsay Books, 2021), and “Watchman, What of the Night?” (CW Books, 2022). Luther is also the facilitator of a monthly virtual open mike sponsored by the Hyattstown Mill Arts Project in Hyattstown, Maryland. Luther’s full length collection, “Flying to America” has just been released by Broadstone Books.