"With their gnomic adages, their vernacular quotations, their paradoxes and puns, the poems seem as though they might have been written anywhere. They don't delineate any particular geography apart from the poet's own mind: his memory of friends, incidents, sentences, and  literary allusions. As such, the poems form a kind of traveling world, a poetic companionship, a mode of thinking."  Forrest Gander

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BENITO DEL PLIEGO (Madrid, Spain, 1970) is a poet, translator, and professor based in North Carolina. He is the author of numerous poetry books; his latest, Integral —dietario reunido, was recently published in Virginia by Editorial Casa Vacía. In Spain, during the 90's, he cofounded the graphic arts and poetry collective Delta 9. He has collaborated extensively with artists and musicians. His poems have been included in anthologies such as Forrest Gander’s Panic Cure. Poetry from Spain for the 21st Century, and Mónica de la Torre and Cristián Gómez's Malditos latinos malditos sudacas. Poesía iberoamericana made in USA. Along with Andrés Fisher, he has also done translations —to and from English— of poets such as Lew Welch, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, Gertrude Stein, and Antonio Gamoneda.

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PEDRO NÚÑEZ MARDONES (Santiago de Chile, 1958) is a self taught visual artist and has developed a prolific work through installation, engraving, drawing, sculpture, and paper manipulation. He ventured into this field in the nineties with the collective Delta 9, of which he was co-founder. He has held individual and group exhibitions in Spain and Chile. He is a regular collaborator on projects with the architecture studio of Marc García Durán Huet, in Barcelona, and curator of numerous artistic projects. He currently resides and  works in Madrid, Spain. His Instagram account is @pedronunezmar.

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