Bill Berkson was born in New York in 1939. He moved to Northern California in 1970 and now divides his time between San Francisco and New York. He is a poet, critic, curator, and professor emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he taught art history and literature for many years. He has been a corresponding editor for Art in America since 1988 and has contributed to such other journals as Artcritical, Artforum, Aperture, and Modern Painters. His recent books include: Snippets (Omerta, 2014); For the Ordinary Artist with a collection of his art writings (BlazeVox, 2011); Not an Exit with drawings by Léonie Guyer (Junge Garden Books, 2011); Repeat After Me with watercolors by John Zurier (Gallery Paule Anglim, 2011); Lady Air (Perdika, 2010); Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2009); and BILL with drawings by Colter Jacobsen (Gallery 16 Editions, 2008). Coffee House Press published a new collection of his poems, Expect Delays, in November 2014.
Matt Longabucco is the author of the chapbook Everybody Suffers: The Selected Poems of Juan García Madero (O’Clock Press, 2014). Other work has recently appeared in Capricious, The Brooklyn Rail, and Parkett. He is also a cofounder of Wendy’s Subway, a twenty-four-hour library, workspace, and meeting place for writers, artists, and readers in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He teaches at New York University and lives in Brooklyn.
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