Maring explores the way that early English poems draw upon oral, literary, and ritual forms of signification for their meaning.

Ríos’s latest collection of poems is Not Go Away Is My Name, along with a novel, A Good Map of All Things. He is Arizona’s inaugural poet laureate and a recent chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Johnson's teaching and research interests range widely, but mainly focus on the literatures and cultures of early modern Spain, Germany, England, and the Americas.

Ernesto L. Abeytia is a Spanish-American poet and teacher, specializing in bilingual poetry and poetics, modern and contemporary American poetry, and Latinx poetry.

Gillian Osborne is an assistant teaching professor and director of curriculum for the Educational Media Innovation Studio.