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Dan Chelotti

Dan Chelotti is the author of x (McSweeney's, 2013) and a chapbook, The Eights (Poetry Society of America, 2006). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Conduit, Fence, jubilat, North American Review, Poetry, and many other journals. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Elms College.

Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham was born in New York City, raised in Rome, Italy, and educated in Paris, New York, and Iowa, where she earned an MFA in poetry. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry, and her collection of selected poems, The Dream of the Unified Field, won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She has taught at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. She served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.

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Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky is one of America's foremost poet-critics. His Selected Poems was published in 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His best-selling translation of The Inferno of Dante (1994) received both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. Among his other awards and honors are the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Harold Washington Award from the City of Chicago, and the PEN-Volcker Award. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center, and founded The Favorite Poem Project while serving an unprecedented three terms as United States Poet Laureate. His most recent book is Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters (2013). He teaches in the creative writing program at Boston University.

Stephen Burt

Stephen Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor. In 2012, the New York Times called Burt “one of the most influential poetry critics of his generation.” Burt has published three collections of poems: Belmont (2013), Parallel Play (2006), and Popular Music (1999). Burt's works of criticism include Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Burt is currently a Professor of English at Harvard University.