Thomas Peter Bennett: is a long-time summer resident of Maine, beginning as a student at Jackson Laboratory in 1957. He is past president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, former director of the Florida Museum of Natural History, and is currently Courtesy Professor at the University of Florida. His poems have appeared in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Poet, Poetalk, The Pegasus Review, Red Owl, The Café Review, and several chapbooks, including A Celebration of John and William Bartam.
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Bob Brooks: is a poet living in Concord, Massachusetts. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Animus, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and many others; and in a chapbook, Still in Here Someplace, (Pudding House Press, 2002). His poetry and homemade graphics may be found at his web site: www.bobbrooks.net.
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Marcia F. Brown: is the author of the chapbook, The Way Women Walk, which was selected first-prize winner in the 2005 Sheltering Pines Press Chapbook Competition. She is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts Program and Smith College. Home to Roost, a book of paintings by Archie Barnes with her accompanying poems, was written for the Belfast (Maine) Poetry Festival, and published in 2007. Her poems and reviews have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Poet Lore, Animus, Off the Coast, and Words and Images, among others. She lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with her husband.
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Chris Butters: recently published in Long Shot, Blue Collar Review, Pemmican, and Cedar Hill Review. His most recent chapbook is The Algebra of Doing It and his most recent book is Americas, (Vietnam Generation Press, 1998.) He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Robert Cording: teaches English and creative writing at Holy Cross College where he is professor of English and Barrett Professor of Creative Writing. He has published four collections of poems: Life -list, which won the Ohio State University Press Journal award in l987; What Binds Us To This World, (Copper Beech Press, l991); Heavy Grace, (Alice James Books, l996); and Against Consolation, (CavanKerry Press, 2002). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Connecticut Commission of the Arts, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. In l992, he was poet-in-residence at the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. His poems have appeared in the Paris Review, The New Yorker, Nation, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry, Orion, and many other magazines. He lives in Woodstock, Connecticut with his wife and three children.
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Michelle Demers: holds an Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Vermont College and has published in Diner, The Urbanite, Collecting Moon Coins, Dryland Fish, Leaves by Day Flowers by Night, and others. Her recently published chapbook, Epicenter, won the 2006 Blue Light Press Prize for Poetry. She received a grant from the Vermont Arts Council, and teaches poetry and writing at the Community College of Vermont, New England Culinary Institute, the University of Vermont, and various venues across the country.
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Peter Desy: is retired from the English Department at Ohio University. After thirty years of lecturing and correcting papers, he says he is in recovery. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, New England Review, Ontario Review, and a poetry collection, Driving From Columbus (Lewiston Poetry Series). He has written two chapbooks.
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David Filer: lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Marlene Anderson. He grew up in the California desert and received his undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of California-Santa Barbara. After law school, he began practicing in Portland in 1981. His poetry has been published in White Pelican Review, Poetry Depth, The Café Review, and Tiger’s Eye Review. A chapbook, Night Verse, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005.
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William Ford: is the author of two books of poems, most recently, Past Present Imperfect, (Turning Point, 2006), and the winner of the 2001 Writing Award from Mid-America Press. His work has appeared in The Iowa Review, New Letters, North American Review, Poetry, and other journals. A retired teacher and editor, he lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
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Terry Godbey: has lived in Florida for decades, but was born in Bangor, Maine. A chapbook, Behind Every Door, won the 2006 Slipstream chapbook contest. Poems have appeared in Dogwood, Poet Lore, CALYX Journal, Potomac Review, and Rattle. Terry works as a copy editor at the Orlando Sentinel.
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Gil Helmick: graduated with honors and distinction in English from California State University in Sonoma, California in 1976. He avoided graduate school, took to the road throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Central America, and various countries in Europe and Asia. He published in small California anthologies before abandoning the craft in pursuit of cash. In that pursuit, he was both successful and satisfied, and in March 1985, resigned from the board of directors of an import company, flew to Paraguay and Brazil, and resumed writing. He has completed two novels, The Accomplice and Wounded Angel, and lives on Bailey Island, Maine.
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Tony Hoagland: is the author of several poetry collections, including What Narcissism Means to Me, (Graywolf Press, 2003), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Donkey Gospel, 1998, which received the James Laughlin Award; and Sweet Ruin, 1992, chosen for the 1992 Brittingham Prize in Poetry and winner of the Zacharis Award from Emerson College. A chapbook, Hard Rain, was published by Hollyridge Press in 2005. His honors include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship to the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the O.B. Hardison Prize for Poetry and Teaching from the Folger Shakespeare Library. His poems and critical writings have appeared in Ploughshares, Agni, Threepenny Review, Gettysburg Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and the 1991 Pushcart Prize anthology. He teaches at the University of Houston and Warren Wilson College.
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Maya Klauber: is a twenty-one-year-old Colby College student who hails from Long Island, New York. A licensed animal rehabilitator, she has cared for unusual New York wildlife — squirrels, rabbits, opossums, raccoons, birds, and the occasional yeti. This is her first professional publication.
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J.T. Ledbetter: is a poet living in Thousand Oaks, California. His credits include, Poetry, The Swanee Review, Laurel Review, New York Quarterly, Texas Review, Atlanta Review, and several other reviews.
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Daniel Lusk: is a Jonesville, Vermont, poet whose most recent collection is Kissing the Ground: New & Selected Poems, (Onion River, 1999). His work appears in current or forthcoming issues of The Southern Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, Alewife, and The Chariton Review. His poems earned second prize in the international Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize competition sponsored by Nimrod in 2006, and the previous year his work was selected by Billy Collins for the anthology, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. He teaches at the University of Vermont.
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Lynn Martin: is the author of Where the Yellow Field Widened: Elegies for a Lost Child, (Brooding Heron Press, 1995), and Blue Bowl, (Blue Begonia Press, 2000). Her poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, The Southern Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, Bitterroot, The Indiana Review, and Hunger Mountain. Awards include the Ernest L. Parker Medallion of Merit and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to study Dante in Italy.
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Sally Allen McNall: is the author of a chapbook, How to Behave at the Zoo and Other Lessons, which won the State Street Press competition. Her first book, Rescue, won the Backwaters Press Prize. A new book-length manuscript, Where Once, is in progress. She lives in California.
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Mary Ruefle: is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently, A Little White Shadow, (Wave Books, 2006). Other titles include Tristimania, Carnegie-Mellon (University Press, 2003), and The Adamant, 1989, winner of the 1988 Iowa Poetry Prize. Her first book of prose, The Most of It, will be published by Wave Books in June. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
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Christopher Seid: is from Iowa and received a Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College. His first book, Prayers to the Other Life, won the 1996 Marianne Moore Poetry Prize from Helicon Nine Editions. After fifteen years in New York City, he moved to Yarmouth, Maine in 2001, where he lives with his wife and two children. He is currently completing his second book of poems, tentatively titled, Tranquility Base.
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Rosemary Winslow: teaches writing and literature at Catholic University of America, where she has directed the writing program for 19 years. She divides her time between downtown Washington, D.C., and rural New Hampshire.
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