Rae Armantrout and Monica Youn

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Rae Armantrout is the widely anthologized author of numerous collections of poetry, including Itself (2015), Just Saying (2013), Money Shot (2011), and Versed (2009), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent book is Partly: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2015. She is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, San Diego.

Monica Youn is the author of the poetry collections Barter (Graywolf, 2003) and Ignatz (Four Way Books, 2010), a finalist for the National Book Award. Her latest is Blackacre (Graywolf, 2016). Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the New Republic, the Paris Review, and the New York Times Magazine. A former lawyer and 2008 Obama delegate to the Democratic National Convention, she teaches poetry at Princeton University and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program.