Jü rgen Partenheimer (*1947, Munich) is an painter and sculptor and stands for an expressive abstraction of which he is one of the foremost artists. He exhibited at the Paris Biennial 1980, Venice Biennial 1986, and had amongst others shows at White Cube London (2017), Pinakothek der Moderne Munich (2014), Mies van der Rohe house Berlin (2011), IKON gallery Birmingham (2009), Haus der Kunst Munich (2006), National Museum of Fine Arts Beijing (2000). 2004 he was honoured with the Order of Merit. 2011 he designed 21 porcelain vessels for the Porzellanmanufaktur Nymphenburg in Munich. José Angel Valente (1929 in Ourense, Galicia/Spain– 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of ’ 50, other pominent group members were Juan Goytisolo, Juan Marsé , and Carmen Martí n Gaite, just to name a few. Valente was one of the greatest Spanis poets of the second half of the 20th century, 1988 winner of the Pricess of Asturias Awards and 1998 of Queen Sofia. The Department of Poetics and Aesthetics at the University of Santiago de Compostela is named after José Angel Valente. Robert Creely (1926 – 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school, and he is one of the most important poets of American poetry in the 20th century. John Burnside (1955– 2024) was a Scotish writer. He was one of four poets to have won the T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Poetry Prize for one book. In Burnside’ s case it was for his 2011 collection » Black Cat Bone« , in 2023 he won the David Cohen Prize. Burnside once studied English and European Thought and Literature at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he was a freelance writer from the midth of the 1990s. He was a former Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee and was Professor in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrew. Bronwyn Law-Viljoen is a writer, editor, and publisher, and a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film at the University of Adelaide (AUS). She has a doctorate in Literature from New York University and a doctorate in Creative Writing from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg (RSA). She was Head of the Department of Creative Writing at Wits from 2011 to 2023, and she is a former editor-in-chief oft he premier South African arts quarterly. She has published essays and short stories in international journals, books and magazines. John Yau (*1950) lives in New York and is a American poet and critic. 1972 he received his BA from Bard College, 1978 his MFA from Brooklyn College, and has published over 50 books of poetry, artists’ books, fiction, and art criticism.