Norman Finkelstein is a poet, critic, and editor. His new book of poetry is Further Adventures (Dos Madres Press); a volume of his selected essays, To Go Into the Words(University of Michigan Press) has also just been released. He is the author of thirteen previous volumes of poetry, including In a Broken Star (Dos Madres, 2021) and The Ratio of Reason to Magic: New & Selected Poems (Dos Madres, 2016). Widely published in the fields of modern poetry and Jewish literature, he has written six books of criticism. He also writes and edits the poetry review blog Restless Messengers (www.poetryinreview.com). An Emeritus Professor of English at Xavier University, he lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. This is his first reading in the Bay Area.

Peter Waldor has just published ten new books, an unprecedented literary event, with Kelsay Books. They include Understandings and Misunderstandings, Fairy Slippers, and Time Can’t Tell It’s Being Told. He is the author of thirteen earlier collections of poetry and a book of essays, including Who Touches Everything (winner of the National Jewish Book Award in Poetry), State of the Union, Gate Posts With No Gate, and Seven Quilts (essays). He was the Poet Laureate of San Miguel County, Colorado from 2014 to 2015. His work has appeared in many journals, including American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. Waldor lives in Ophir, Colorado.