Benjamin Aleshire: his poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Green Mountains Review, Connecticut River Review, Seven Days, and Vermont Literary Review.  His play, “Gauvain the Good Knight,” won the 2009 Nor’Easter Playwright Competition. This year he helped found a new publication, The Salon: A Journal of Poetry & Fiction, where he serves as editor.

Elly Bookman: is a recent graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine.  She lives and writes in Eugene, Oregon, but will be attending the M.F.A. program at U.N.C. Greensboro this Fall.

Karina Borowicz: has recent work in AGNI Online, New Ohio Review, and Rattle.  Her translations have appeared on Poetry Daily.  She lives in Western Massachusetts.

Matthew M. Cariello: is a writer and teacher originally from New Jersey, currently living in Columbus and teaching in the English Department at the Ohio State University.  His poetry has been published in Poet Lore, Artful Dodge, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, Frogpond, Acorn, Simply Haiku, Riverbed, The Heron’s Nest, Daily Haiku and Modern Haiku.  His reviews and fiction have appeared in The Indiana Review, The Cortland Review, The Journal, The Long Story, Iron Horse Literary Review, Parting Gifts, and Ohioana.

E. Michael Desilets: was born and raised in Framingham, Massachusetts.  He earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia University in New York under the guidance of Anthony Burgess and Hortense Calisher.  He taught at Framingham High School, Framingham State College, Rowan University in New Jersey, and the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, where he now lives.  His poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Blue Collar Review, California Quarterly, Diner, The Rambler, and Widener Review.  He was the first winner of both The Boston Herald Poetry Competition and the John M. Corcoran Poetry Prize, sponsored by The Irish Edition of Philadelphia.  In Lieu of Hymns, a musical setting of ten of his poems by composer Leo Schwartz, had its premiere at WFMT Studios in Chicago in March of 2010.

Daniel Hales: his ghazal “Dear Shahid” was published in The Massachusetts Review and his ghazal “The Red Dress Of Poetry” was published in Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English, an anthology edited by Shahid.  When not writing poems, he writes songs for the band Daniel Hales and the Frost Heaves.

Elizabeth Hoover: her poetry has appeared in The Hoyden’s Ferry Review, The Atlanta Review, New Letters, and is forthcoming in Natural Bridge.  She is the associate editor of Sampsonia Way, a publication of City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.

Victoria Livingstone: lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where she spends her time writing and translating poetry, teaching Spanish, and working towards her Ph.D. in Latin American literature at Boston University.  Her poetry has appeared in Möbius, the Poetry Magazine and her translations of Argentine poetry were published in Metamorphoses.  She is currently translating a book of contemporary Mayan poetry called I Sing Word of a Dead Couple.

Daniel Lusk: his books include Kissing the Ground: New & Selected Poems and Onion River: Six Vermont Poets.  His poems have appeared in Poetry, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, American Poetry Review, North American Review and many others.  He has been awarded literary fellowships in poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and residency fellowships at Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony.  He teaches poetry and creative writing at the University of Vermont.

Steve Luttrell: was born and continues to live in Portland, Maine. He is a graduate of Franklin Pierce College and is the author of ten books of poetry.  His latest title, Twelve Moons, Twelve Poems, is currently available.  Recently, he was named Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine, for a two – year term.  He is the founder and publishing editor of The Café Review.

Michael David Madonick: is an associate professor at the  University of Illinois.  His poems have most recently appeared in  Iron Horse, Redivider, New Ohio Review / nor, and Barrow  Street.  He has a short non-fiction piece, “Bunt,” in the  International Review of Qualitative Research.  His book
of poems, Waking The Deaf Dog, was published by Avocet Press,  New York.

Michael Palma: was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1945.  He has published one full-length collection of poems, A Fortune in Gold (Gradiva, 2000), and two poetry chapbooks, Antibodies (1997) and The Egg Shape (1972).  He has also published translations of nine modern and contemporary Italian poets, including: Luigi Fontanella (The Transparent Life and Other Poems, 2000); Franco Buffoni (The Shadow of Mount Rosa, 2002); Paolo Valesio (Every Afternoon Can Make the World Stand Still, 2002); Maura Del Serra (Infinite Present, 2002; with Emanuel di Pasquale), and Ljuba Merlina Bortolani (The Siege, 2002).  In January 2002, his terza rima translation of Dante’s Inferno was published by W.W. Norton & Co.  He has received the Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship and the Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Italo Calvino Award from the Translation Center of Columbia University, and the Premio Speciale of the Associazione Culturale Campana of Latina, Italy.  Currently, he serves on the board of the Italian Poetry Society of America.  He lives with his wife in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

Russ Sargent: is the owner of Yes Books in Portland, Maine.  These poems were written while traveling Europe in 1991 -1992.  Other poems, including cantos from Clarion Vice and translations from Spanish, have appeared previously in The Café Review.

Annie Seikonia: is a poet, writer, artist, bibliophile, and cartomancer who lives in the Bayside neighborhood of Portland, Maine.

Jonathan Skinner: his poetry collections include With Naked Foot (Little Scratch Pad, 2008) and Political Cactus Poems (Palm Press, 2005).  He founded and edits the journal ecopoetics, http://www.ecopoetics.org, which features creative – critical intersections between writing and ecology.  His most recent essay, “Thoughts on Things: Poetics of the Third Landscape,” appears in the )((eco (lang)(uage (reader)) (Portable Press at Yo – yo Labs and Nightboat Books, 2010).  He teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at Bates College in Central Maine, where he makes his home.

Andrea L. Watson: her poetry has appeared in Runes, The Comstock Review, Room of One’s Own, Earth’s Daughters, and Georgetown Review, among others.  Her show, “Braided Lives: A Collaboration Between Artists and Poets,” was sponsored by the Taos Institute of Arts in 2003; travelled to San Francisco’s SomArts Cultural Center in 2005; and was hosted by Tennyson Gallery, Denver, CO, RANE Gallery, Taos, NM, and Studio Rasa, Berkeley, CA in 2006.  She is co – editor of HeartLodge: Honoring the House of the Poet.

Douglas Woody Woodsum: is a high school teacher in rural Maine.  His poetry, prose, and cartoons have appeared in many publications, including the New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, the Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and the Antioch Review.

Franz Wright: the son of poet James Wright, was born in Vienna, Austria in 1953.  During his youth, his family moved to the Northwest United States, the Midwest, and northern California.  His most recent collections of poetry include Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003) which received a Pulitzer Prize, The Beforelife (2001), Ill Lit: New and Selected Poems (1998), Rorschach Test (1995), The Night World and the Word Night (1993), and Midnight Postscript (1993).  He has also translated poems by René Char, Erica Pedretti, and Rainer Maria Rilke. He received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, as well as grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.  He lives in Waltham, Massachusetts.