Roger Camp
lives in Seal Beach, California, where he tends to several hundred plants, is apprenticed to a master mason, plays blues piano evenings, and kayak fishes (weather permitting). His work has been published or is forthcoming in The North American Review, Atlanta Review, and Cold Mountain Review.
Danny Caine
hails from Cleveland, Ohio where he lives with his wife, cat, and collection of 1960s soul records. Formerly a rural Ohio high school teacher, he is now a graduate assistant at John Carroll University, where he edits The John Caroll Review. His work has appeared in New Ohio Review.
W. E. Butts
W.E. Butts: is the author of five full–length books of poetry, including Cathedral of Nervous Horses, New and Selected Poems; Radio Time; and Sunday Evening at the Stardust Café, which was a finalist for the 2005 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and winner of the 2006 Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize. His poems frequently appeared in journals such as the Birmingham Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Mid –American Review, and Poetry East, and have been reprinted in many anthologies. Butts, who died at home in 2013, was the New Hampshire Poet Laureate at the time of his death. The two poems published in this issue are among a handful of unpublished pieces he had intended for a new manuscript.
John F. Buckley
lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and is attending the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. His second book of poems written in collaboration with Martin Ott, Yankee Broadcast Network, is scheduled to arrive on Brooklyn Arts Press in late 2014. His website is http://www.johnfrancisbuckley.wordpress.com.