BARBARA GUEST (1920-2006) published over twenty volumes of poetry, and earned awards including the Robert Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Society of America. JOSEPH SHAFER teaches at the University of Marburg and publishes on American poetry, critical theory, and aesthetics. He is also the coeditor of a new Selected Poems of Barbara Guest and is the author of Appearing Beside Text: Uprisings of In-difference in Post-1945 American Poetry. MARJORIE WELISH is a poet, painter, and art critic. She taught modern art history at Pratt Institute before holding the Madelon Leventhal Rand Endowed Chair in Literature at Brooklyn College. Her arts practice was the subject of the book, Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish.