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Andrew Schelling

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ANDREW SCHELLING is a poet and translator. Author of twenty-odd books, his poetry is founded on studies in ecology, linguistics, and folklore, and includes A Possible Bag. Recent translations include Some Unquenchable Desire: Sanskrit Poems of the Buddhist Hermit Bhartrihari and Erotic Love Poems from India. Schelling lives in the Southern Rocky Mountain Eco-Zone; he teaches poetry and Sanskrit at Naropa University.

ANNE WALDMAN is a poet, performer, professor, editor, activist, and founder with Allen Ginsberg of The Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University. Author of over 50 books of poetry, her most recent books include Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet To Be Born, and Trickster Feminism. Her epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment won the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry. She has received the Shelley Award, a Guggenheim, the Before Columbus Foundation Award for lifetime achievement, and the Houtian Prize from China. Waldman is a Chancellor Emeritus of the Academy of American Poetry. She has been a student of Buddhism for many decades. She makes frequent trips to India and was a keynote speaker at the Jaipur Literary Festival.