A native of Bologna, where she was much involved in theater, Rita degli Esposti has long lived and taught in Venezia. Her work has been translated by many American and English poets, including Tom Raworth.

James Koller is best known as a poet, has read and published widely in western Europe and America. He has shown his art work in Rome and New York. His editorial work includes Coyote Books & Coyote’s Journal (since 1964), and the book review, Otherwise.

The poems printed in this issue by painter and poet Franco Beltrametti (1937 – 1995) were never before published, written in Italian, translated here by Stefan Hyner. Beltrametti was active in Italy, France, California and Japan, as well as his native Ticino.

The first edition of Joanne Kyger’s About Now, her collected poems, was published in 2007 by The National Poetry Foundation, Orono, Maine. Born in Vallejo, California, a long time resident of the San Francisco area, she has lived and worked in Bolinas, since the 1970s.