BARBARA GUEST (1920-2006) was an American poet, prose stylist, biographer, and art critic whose work helped shape postmodern American poetry. She authored over 15 books of poetry and a collection of essays. In 1999, Guest received the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Society of America. The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2008. NORMA COLE is author, most recently, of Alibi Lullaby and Fate News. JOSEPH SHAFER is a scholar of post-1945 American poetry and the editor of Meditations: The Assorted Prose of Barbara Guest (Wesleyan University Press, 2025). ELIZABETH WILLIS is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Liontaming in America (2024), which was longlisted for the National Book Award. She teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.