was born in Chicago.  He earned a BA in forestry and English and an MA in English literature from the University of Colorado.  He started publishing his poetry in the 1960s; his more recent publications are Entering the City (1997), Dog Sonnets (1998), the 500-plus page collection Red Car Goes By (2001), and Situations, Sings with Lyn Hejinian (2008).  He has been active as a teacher of creative writing for adults and children since the 1970s, having taught for Poets-in-the-Schools for 35 years and as Adjunct Professor, teaching ecology and literature, at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado for 23 years.  He has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry and has received many other grants for magazine and book production, especially for his work with children.

grew up in central Maine, graduated from Waterville High School, got a BA from Dartmouth, and a PhD from the University of Minnesota, where he held the University Doctoral Fellowship.  He was Assistant Professor of English & Humanities and Inland Steel Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago until 1972, when he became the first faculty member at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.  His first book of poetry, The Hours of Morning (1980), won the Association of Writers & Writing Programs award, followed by Rain (1985) which won the S.F. Morse poetry prize.  The Wooden Nickel (Little-Brown, 2002) is a lobster-and- whale-oriented novel of which the New York Times said: “Melville would have approved.”  He sails with his family out of Castine, Maine.

a.k.a. Danksta Downunder is a poet from Sydney, Australia who has been living on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland for the past 10 years.  He has published one chapbook All Other Destinations (2010).  He is involved in the SE Queensland troupe of performance poets OuTsideRs Art Inc. and in the global event, 100 Thousand Poets for Change.  He has performed in Brisbane, Sydney, Woodford, Wollongong, Canberra, and Adelaide.

recent work has appeared in, Barrow Street, The Seattle Review, The Ilanot Review, The Delaware Poetry Review, Poet Lore, HowlRound, and The California Journal of Women Writers.  She served as Fulbright Fellow in Lyon, France; Teaching Fellow at Emory University; and chief speech writer at Apple.  She earned an MFA at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers.