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, the latest being, Twelve Moons, Twelve Poems.  A new book, Plumb Line, published by North American Books and distributed by Random House will be available May 19, 2015.  He is a former Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine and is the founding editor of The Café Review, a quarterly journal of poetry, art, and reviews that, this year, is celebrating its 25th anniversary!

earned his BA from Dartmouth College, an MFA from Columbia University, and an MA from Middlebury College. He is the author of the poetry collections 3,000 Dreams Explained (1992) and Ocean Drinker: New & Selected Poems (2006) and many art books, including Edward Hopper’s New England, The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent, and The Art of Monhegan Island (2004).  His 2011 book Eric Hopkins: Above and Beyond won the first John N. Cole Award from Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.  He lives and writes in Somesville, Maine on Mount Desert Island.

has published 16 poetry books, 12 in the United States and 4 in Italy, including Caribouddhism and Poems for the Wild Earth.  His writing deals with issues of environmental and social justice and the voices of the underprivileged and overlooked.  He has led writing classes for several nontraditional audiences, such as artists with disabilities at Spindleworks in Brunswick, Maine; the homeless population at Preble Street in Portland, Maine; and war veterans back from Afghanistan and Iraq.  He and his partner Beth Leonard own Gulf of Maine Books, an independent bookstore in Brunswick, Maine.

works as a Speech-Language Pathologist in Magdalena, New Mexico.  He has published six books of poetry; most recently, Vanishing Act (La Alameda 2010).  An interview with Jefferson Hansen on Vanishing Act appears at Experimental Fiction Poetry.