Herb Metoyer - Folkways Records' recording artist and Louisiana AuthorJoy Gaines-Friedler - Metro Detroit Poet & author of  Dutiful Heart Marsha Music - Kresge Award Winner, Popular Detroit Author & HistorianTerry Blackhawk-Kresge Award Winning Poet and Founding Director of InsideOutChristian Belz- Widely Published Detroit Fiction Writer & Author of the novel Civic Center Corpse M. L. Liebler & The Good Shepherd Blues Band