Peter Siedlecki and Barbara Cole

Peter Siedlecki is Professor Emeritus and Poet in Residence at Daemen College. He is director of the Readings at the RIC series and author of the newly-published collection, “Going With The Flow.” He is a former Fulbright senior lecturer (two years in Poland and one year in the former German Democratic Republic). His previous book of poetry was titled “Voyeur.”

Barbara Cole is the Artistic Director of Just Buffalo Literary Center and a 2011 Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She received her M.A. in Creative Writing—Poetry from Temple University and her Ph.D. in English from the University at Buffalo where she worked closely with Charles Bernstein and Susan Howe. Since 2000, she has been writing the ongoing long poem project affectionately known as foxy moron. Previous chapbooks include sut ation come dies (handwritten press, 2002); foxy moron (/ubu editions, 2004); ear say (Belladonna* 2008). In addition to her poetic projects, Cole edited (with Sarah Bay-Cheng), Poets at Play: An Anthology of Modernist Drama (Susquehanna University Press, 2010).