A former student of Helene Cixous and of Jacques Derrida at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Rabate has written a thesis on Joyce, Pound and Hermann Broch. He has taught in Dijon, where he has been a Professor of English Literature for twelve years, in Paris, and in Montreal. He has published books on Pound (Language, Sexuality and Ideology in the Cantos), on Joyce (Authorized Reader, Joyce Upon the Void), on Beckett (Beckett avant Beckett), on Thomas Bernhard (Thomas Bernhard) and on a variety of problems connected with critical theory and the esthetics of modernism (La Beaute Amere', La Penultieme est morte, published in English as Ghosts of Modernity). He is also a Director for the College International de Philosophic (Paris). He recented edited the proceedings of Penn's 1994 conference Barthes After Barthes into a volume titled Writing the Image After Roland Barthes (UPenn Press 1997).

Peter Krok has been the Poetry Director of the Manayunk Art Center (MAC) for eight years. Known as the "Red Brick Poet," he has had more than 200 poems published since 1970. He has appeared on radio and done public speaking on a variety of topics such as Edgar Allen Poe, the value of libraries, Osip Mandelstam, inspiriation, Philadelphia and William Blake, and he has given numerous poetry readings throughout the Philadelphia area.
Emiliano Martin is a native of Spain now working in the United States. He is the author of numerous poems in the English language as well as in Spanish. Very active in the poetry community, he has presented his works on stage, radio, in schools, libraries, coffeehouses and art centers. His published books include The Legacy of a Poet, Words in Captivity, In the Wilderness, and Glazed by the Moon.

Susan Stewart is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, a poet, and critic. She teaches the history of lyric poetry, aesthetics and the philosophy of literature, and cultural studies. Her works of poetry are Yellow Stars and Ice (Princeton U. Press), The Hive (U. of Georgia Press), and, most recently, The Forest, University of Chicago Press. She has also published three books of criticism: Nonsense (Johns Hopkins U. Press), On Longing (Duke U. Press), and Crimes of Writing (Oxford U. Press and Duke U. Press). Her current research project is a study of the five senses in relation to the history of the lyric. Professor Stewart is the recipient of two grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and a Lila Wallace Individual Writer's Award. In 1997 she was named a MacArthur Fellow.