Altan are an Irish folk music band formed in County Donegal in 1987 by lead vocalist Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and her husband Frankie Kennedy. The group were primarily influenced by traditional Irish language songs from Donegal and have sold over a million records.
Melanie Rae Thon is an American fiction writer known for work that moves beyond and between genres, erasing the boundaries between them as it explores diversity, permeability, and interdependence from a multitude of human and more-than-human perspectives.
Michael Ryan has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California, Irvine since 1990.
Dorothy Barresi is an American poet.
Jerwood Foundation is an independent grant-making foundation in the United Kingdom. In 1999 the Jerwood Foundation established the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, a registered charity under English law.
Henry Shukman is an English meditation teacher, Zen master, poet and author. Shukman teaches mindfulness and awakening practices. He is an authorised Zen master in the Sanbo Zen lineage, the spiritual director emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center, and the co-founder and lead meditation teacher of The Way meditation app. Previous to this, Shukman had a career as an author and poet. Over time, Shukman developed a specific approach to spirituality and meditation, leading to the development in 2021 of his Original Love meditation programme, which includes love for self and the world as its foundation.
Jody Gladding is an American translator and poet. She was selected by James Dickey for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
William Virgil Davis is an American poet.
Simeon Berry is a poet who authored the prize-winning collections Ampersand Revisited and Monograph. His poetry has been published widely in literary journals, including AGNI, Antioch Review, The Literary Review, Washington Square Review, The Iowa Review, New Orleans Review, Southern Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, Crazyhorse, Passages North, Hayden's Ferry Review, Seneca Review, American Letters & Commentary, Chelsea, The Southeast Review, and Verse.
Joel Brouwer is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is Off Message released in 2016
Stacie Cassarino is an American poet, educator, editor, and mother. She is the author of two collections of poems, Each Luminous Thing and Zero at the Bone, and a monograph, Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature.
Maxine Scates is an American poet.
Paul Guest is an American poet and memoirist.
Martha M. Zweig is an American poet. Her most recent book is Monkey Lightning.
Mark Turpin is an American poet.
Jane Springer is an American poet. Her honors include a 2010 Whiting Award, the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Poetry, and the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books.
Matt Donovan is an American poet and nonfiction writer. A native of Hudson, Ohio, Donovan graduated from Vassar College with an AB, from Lancaster University with an MA, and from New York University with an MFA. He teaches at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.
Shane McCrae is an American poet, and is currently Poetry Editor of Image.
Esther E. Morgan is a British poet.
Niall Campbell, is a Scottish poet. He has published two poetry collections and a poetry pamphlet. He was a recipient of the Eric Gregory Award in 2011, winner of the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2014, and was recipient of the Saltire First Book of the Year award.
