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Sharon Mesmer (* 5. Dezember 1960 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) ist eine US-amerikanische Dichterin des ausgehenden 20. und des beginnenden 21. Jahrhunderts.

Boni Joi was born in North Miami Beach, Florida, raised in New Jersey, and recently discovered her lost lineage in Salem, Massachusetts. She has a MFA from Columbia University and has read her poetry at numerous venues in New Jersey, New York and elsewhere. Her first collection Before During or After Rainstorms just hit the pavement. Boston Review says: “Armed with an eye for the particular and a knack for gentle satire, Joi writes from the front lines of a doomed fight for America’s spirit, but does so with a bright infectious gusto.”

Jason Stoneking is an American writer living in Paris, France. He has published two collections of poems: Double Edged Pen (Fresh Hell Books 1997) and no demon no god (Onestar Press 2000) and four collections of essays: Audience of One (In Libro Veritas 2011), Audience of Twelve (Happy House Books 2012), Sifting Through (2014), and Audience of None (Happy House Books 2015). He has also released an album, in 2001 as the frontman of the eponymous garage-punk band Stoneking, and has written and directed two short films: Larry's Big Break (2006) in which he also starred, and Knock Knock (2008) starring Joanna Miadowicz and Andrew Shemin. His band was the subject of the 2009 documentary The Stoneking Project by Richard Dailey.