Bonnie Naradzay has led regular poetry sessions at day shelters and at a retirement community, all located in Washington, DC. Her poems, three of which have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, have appeared in AGNI, New Letters, RHINO, Kenyon Review Online, Tampa Review, EPOCH, Dappled Things, Cumberland River Review, and many other places. While a graduate student at Harvard in the late 1960’s, she was in Robert Lowell’s class: “The King James Bible as English Literature.” In 2010 she was awarded the University of New Orleans Poetry Prize – a month’s stay in Northern Italy, in the South Tyrol castle of Ezra Pound’s daughter Mary.  There, Bonnie had tea with Mary, hiked the Dolomites, and read drafts of Pound’s early poems.  In 2008 she earned her MFA in poetry and in 2017 she was awarded a Master’s Degree from the Graduate Institute at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland.

Over the last few years, she has led sessions (including Gilgamesh, Homer’s Epics and Don Quixote) on Zoom for The Catherine Project, https://catherineproject.org.  www.bonnienaradzay.com

Michele Wolf is an editor, writer, and teacher. She holds degrees from Boston University and Columbia. Her latest poetry book, Peacocks on the Streets was released by Broadstone Books in September, 2025. Her book, Immersion (2011), was selected by Denise Duhamel for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection, published by The Word Works. Previous books are Conversations During Sleep (1998, Anhinga Press), winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, judged by Peter Meinke, and The Keeper of Light (1995, Painted Bride Quarterly Poetry Chapbook Series), judged by J.T. Barbarese.

Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Hudson Review, Poetry, Boulevard, North American Review, and The Antioch Review.  A former contributing editor for Poet Lore and Kirkus Reviews, she has received a Maryland State Arts Council literary arts Independent Artist Award (2022). Among her other honors are an Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award and fellowships from Yaddo, the Edward  F. Albee Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland. She has also served on the administrative staff of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, where she was a National Arts Club Scholar in Poetry.

Kim Roberts will release two new books in 2025: Q&A for the End of the World, a collaboration with Michael Gushue (WordTech Editions), her seventh book of poems; and Buried Stories: Walking Tours of Washington, DC-Area Cemeteries (Rivanna Books), her second guidebook. She has edited two anthologies of poems by Washington, DC authors, and co-curates DC Pride Poem-a-Day each June. http://www.kimroberts.org.

Michael Gushue is co-founder of Poetry Mutual. He ran several poetry series, e.g., Poetry at the Watergate. His books: Pachinko Mouth, Conrad, Gather Down Women, Sympathy for the Monster, I Never Promised You A Sea Monkey (with CL Bledsoe) and The Judy Poems (with CL Bledsoe), Palace of Depression ((January 2025, with CL Bledsoe) and Q&A For The End Of The World (April 2025, with Kim Roberts). He lives in the Brookland neighborhood of DC.