Alicia Ostriker and Richard Tayson
A prizewinning poet and critic, Ostriker was a finalist for the National Book Award for "The Crack in Everything" and "The Little Space" and has published 11 volumes of poetry, most recently "No Heaven." She is the author of "Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America" and other books on poetry and on the Bible. She is a founder of U.S. 1 Poets Co-Op.
Tayson's most recent book of verse, "The World Underneath" was released this year. His first book of poetry, "The Apprentice of Fever," won the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Nightsun, Michigan Quarterly Review, Bloom, Kenyon Review and have been anthologized in "American Poetry: The Next Generation," "I Do / I Don't: Queers on Marriage," " Poetry Nation," "Jugular Defences" and "The Best of Prairie Schooner."