Alice Quinn is the executive director of the Poetry Society of America and an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She was poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007 and lives in New York City. Billy Collins was the Poet Laureate of the United States and the State of New York. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College and a Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute. A Literary Lion of the New York Public Library and author of many collections of poetry, including Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds and Horoscopes for the Dead, he lives in Westchester, New York.