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Maria Rodriguez-Morales is the author of Brooklyn’s Daughter (Creative Ink Press, 2014). Her work has also been published in the anthology Me Ne Habla With Acento: Contemporary Latino Poetry (Rebel Satori Press, 2011) and the New York Daily News.
Ada Limón is the author of The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) and Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions, 2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
The first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman is the author of The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough (Penmanship Books, 2015).
Ralph Burns was born in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1949.
Daniel Johnson published How to Catch a Falling Knife, winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award, in 2010 with Alice James Books.
Ai was the author of several books of poetry, including Vice: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 1999), which won the National Book Award for Poetry.