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Julie Rogers

was first anthologized in 1980.  Her poetry has appeared in many journals.  Her prose includes a Buddhist hospice manual, Instructions for the Transitional State (Vimala, 2007).  A thirty-year collection, House Of The Unexpected (Wild Ocean Press, 2012) and six chapbooks have also been published, most recently Street Warp (Omerta Press, 2013).  Her poems have been featured in various journals and anthologies such as Beatitude Golden Anniversary 1959–2009, Big Scream, The Cafe Review, Abalone Moon, the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, and others.  She has been performing her work with her husband, poet David Meltzer, in the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere.  Visit the website at www.julrogers.com.

James Reidel

is a poet, translator, editor, and biographer.  Over the years, he has published poems in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Verse, The New Criterion, Ploughshares, Conjunctions, DMQ Review, The Adirondack Review, and The Battersea Review.  Black Lawrence Press brought out his first collection of verse, My Window Seat for Arlena Twigg, in 2006, and, more recently, his new chapbook, Jim’s Book (2013).  He is the author of Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees (University of Nebraska Press, 2003), the definitive and only biography of Kees.  His translations include Thomas Bernhard’s poetry cycles, In Hora Mortis and Under the Iron of the Moon, which were published as a single volume by Princeton University Press and was later selected by PEN as one of its 2007 translation prize finalists.

Rochelle Owens

is a controversial writer who is considered a pioneer in the experimental Off-Broadway Theatre movement, best known for her avant-garde 1961 play “Futz.”  She was also influential to the poetry at St. Marks Poetry Project and involved in the  ethnopoetics movement.  She studied at the University of Montreal and taught at Brown University.  Her work has been featured in magazines and journals like First Intensity, Golden Handcuffs, and The Iowa Review.  Her last three books are Triptych, Texture press, 2006, Solitary Workwoman, Junction Press, 2011, and Out of Ur New & Selected Poems 1961–2012, Shearsman Books, 2013.  She has been married to poet George Economou since 1962.