was born in Great Falls, Montana, and was educated at Colgate and Columbia Universities.  He is the author of 12 books of poetry and translations, including Ananios of Kleitor (Shearsman, 2009), Half an Hour, Translations of C. P. Cavafy (Stop P of London, 2003), Acts of Love, Ancient Greek Poetry from Aphrodite’s Garden (Random House, 2006), and Complete Plus, The Poetry of C. P. Cavafy in English (2013). He was twice named Fellow in Poetry by the National Endowment for the Humanities and has also held fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.  He retired as Professor Emeritus of English after forty-one years of teaching, the last seventeen of which were at the University of Oklahoma.  He is married to poet and playwright Rochelle Owens.  They live in Philadelphia and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

has written seven books of poetry: Quiet Lives, (foreword by Allen Ginsberg), 1983; On The Bridge, 1986; Fragments from The Stars, 1990; Coming Home, 1993; Silences for Love, 1998; Turn the Wheel, 2003; and Moonlight Rose in Blue: Selected Poems.  He received the 1988 Award in Literature, American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters.  He has been editor and publisher of Big Scream poetry magazine from 1974 to the present, which has published, Sunflowers and Locomotives: Songs for Allen, elegies for Allen Ginsberg, 1998.  He teaches Women’s Studies, Shakespeare, drama, and creative writing at Grand Rapids Community College and has been the Grand Rapids Poet Laureate since 2011.

was born Andre Laloux in a Belgian bomb shelter in 1943.  He was raised in Oakland, California and is the author of 14 books of poetry, including 40th Century Man: Selected Verse 1996 –1966 (Autonomedia, 1997), Without Doubt (Zeitgeist Press, 1991, introduction by Allen Ginsberg) and was coeditor of Poems for the Nation (Seven Stories Press, 2000), a collection of contemporary political poems compiled by the late poet Allen Ginsberg.  He has taught at Naropa University and given readings and lectures at many universities, prisons, poetry conferences, and cafes at home and around the world.  He is presently working on memoirs of his friendship and adventures with Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and many others of the Beat Generation.

was born in Santa Monica, California in 1945. He is an applauded poet, critic, memoirist, and literary biographer. He has written twelve books of poetry, including: From the Canyon Outward, the award winning Leaning Against Time, Elegy for Bob Kaufman, and Animal; two acclaimed biographies, Bukowski: A Life and Ferlinghetti: A Biography.  His book, Whitman’s Wild Children (a collection of critical memoirs), has become an underground classic.  He teaches in The Floating University, offering courses in poetics, along with David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg.