is a small press legend whom Charles Bukowski once called “one of the great undiscovered talents of our time.”  He is the author of more than 150 books, chapbooks, and broadsides and has published over 4,000 poems, stories, articles, reviews, and interviews including his latest collection, Poets and Pleasure Seekers: New and Selected Poems, 2010 –2015 which has just been published by Spout Hill Press.  A native Easterner, he went west to obtain his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and later taught at California State University, Long Beach where he is now Professor Emeritus of English.

was the founder of the Mulberry Poets & Writers Association and chaired the editorial board for the anthology Palpable Clock: 25 Years of Mulberry Poets (University of Scranton Press, 2004).  He is a court-appointed criminal defense attorney for indigent defendants in federal court.

teaches English and creative writing in Portland, Maine and advises the Deering High School literary magazine Breccia.  She studied English at the University of Maine at Farmington and the University of Southern Maine.

is a recently retired baby boomer child-of-the-sixties freed after working 40 years for “The Man” and sometimes “The Woman.”  No more useless meetings under florescent lights in stuffy windowless rooms.  He’s devoting more time to making better poems when not trying to satisfy his wife’s legendary Honey-Do List.