Ed Folsom is the Roy J. Carver Professor Emeritus of English at The University of Iowa, editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, co-director of the online Walt Whitman Archive, and editor of the Whitman Series at The University of Iowa Press. He is the author or editor of numerous books and essays on Whitman and other American writers. He co-edited the first collection of essays on W. S. Merwin’s work and co-edited a volume of Merwin’s prose essays. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Archives. His work has been chosen four times as a Choice “Outstanding Academic Title,” and he has been featured on numerous national radio and television programs about Whitman and American poetry.
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Naomi Shihab Nye was the Young People's Poet Laureate of the United States (Poetry Foundation) from 2019-2022 and the New York Times Magazine poetry editor from 2020-2021.She is on faculty at Texas State University and has worked as a visiting poet all her life. Her most recent books include The Turtle of Michigan, Dear Vaccine (co-editor), The Tiny Journalist, Everything Comes Next (Selected & New Poems), Cast Away (poems about trash), and Voices in the Air - Poems for Listeners. She was honored to be friends with William and Paula Merwin for 30 years.
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