Donald Wheelock’s poems have appeared or will appear in THINK, Ekphrasis, Alabama Literary Review, Blue Unicorn, and many other publications that welcome formal poetry. His first full-length book of poems, It’s Hard Enough to Fly, has just been released by Kelsay Books. Although a poet since his thirties, Wheelock’s intense immersion in the writing of poetry is relatively recent; his lifelong career has been in music, as a composer of chamber, vocal, and orchestral music. He is professor emeritus of music at Smith College.
Brian Brodeur is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Some Problems with Autobiography (Criterion Books, 2023), which won the 2022 New Criterion Prize, and Every Hour Is Late (Measure Press, 2019). New poems and literary criticism appear in Hopkins Review, Gettysburg Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Southern Review, and the Writer’s Chronicle. Brian lives with his wife and daughter in the Whitewater River Valley. He teaches at Indiana University East.