Michael Basinski is a text, visual, and sound poet. He has many books of poetry, including Poems Popeye Papyrus (Slack Buddha Press), Of Venus 93 (Little Scratch Pad), All My Eggs Are Broken (BlazeVox), and Trailers (BlazeVox). His poems and other works have appeared in such magazines as Poetry, Rampike, Dandelion, Kenning, Lungfull, Lvng, Generator, Western Humanities Review, Vanitas, Earth's Daughters, and Public Illumination. His work is heavily influenced by Fluxus, "the interdisciplinary avant-garde art movement that gained international attention in the 1950s and 1960s for its emphasis on chance operations, collective or anonymous authorship of artworks, and ephemeral gestures." Basinski performs his work both as a solo artist and in conjunction with the performance/sound ensemble Buffluxus. He earned a BA, MAH, and PhD in English from the University at Buffalo, and is the curator of the UB Poetry Collection of the University Libraries of SUNY at Buffalo.

Peter Siedlecki is Professor Emeritus and Poet-in-Residence at Daemen College. He is director of the Readings at the RIC series and author of the recently published collection, Going With The Flow (BlazeVOX, 2014). He has published his poems in a number of journals including 2River View, Nantucket Review, Red Cedar Review, Terra Poetica, Escarpments, Earth's Daughters, and Slant, and has collaborated with composer Roland Martin on a number of works. He is a former Fulbright senior lecturer at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, in the former German Democratic Republic. His collected poems, 1980-2000, were published in a volume entitled Voyeur (ExLibris, 2006). He is also an avid bicyclist, folksinger, woodworker, and chorister.