Marie Harris
her poems appear as a collaborative gesture beneath the artwork of her son, Sebastian Matthews, on each inside art page. She was the New Hampshire Poet Laureate from 1999–2004. Her recent children’s book is The Girl Who Heard Colors (Penguin).
Carolyn Gelland
has published poems in numerous literary journals including The Bitter Oleander, Sou’wester, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Greensboro Review, and RiverSedge. She worked as a Norwegian translator and ran a small art gallery while living in New York City. After marrying, she and her husband, poet Kenneth Frost, moved to rural Maine (Wilton) to focus on writing. Her first book of poems, Four –Alarm House (Main Street Rag), was published in February 2012. Her latest book of poems, Dream –Shuttle (Main Street Rag) was published in 2013. She performs readings of her poems, as well as poems by her late husband, Kenneth Frost.
Klaus Gerken
was born in Germany and lives in Ottawa, Canada. He is a poet, artist, photographer, singer /songwriter, and is the founder and editor of Ygdrasil, a Journal of the Poetic Arts; the first literary journal ever to be published on the Internet. He has written plays, novels, and numerous volumes of poetry.
David Filer
lives and works in the other Portland. (Oregon.) His most recent books (both in 2012) are The Fear of Love, a full-length collection from Plain View Press, and Housekeeping, a chapbook of sonnets from Finishing Line Press.

