grew up on the borderlands of California and Baja.  He organized farm workers with Cesar Chavez, studied poetry in graduate school at the University of California, Irvine, and lives near Taos, New Mexico.  Long associated with the Taos Poetry Circus and Mexican Bob’s Poetry Camp, he has published widely in journals across the United States and Europe.  Recent anthologies featuring his work include Venus in the Badlands (ed. J. Macker, Santa Fe, 2006), between sleeps: the 315 experiment 1993–2005 (ed. Dinsmore and Alley, Vancouver BC, 2006), and Wandering Hermit Review (Seattle, 2006).  Ranchos Press has published almost a dozen of his chapbooks in the last 10 years; Lost in the Chamiso (wild embers press 2006) is his first full – length book.  He performs his work frequently throughout New Mexico and the west in featured readings, seminars, television and radio, as well as on videos and CDs.

is an international public health physician, commended by President Bill Clinton as an “American Health Hero.”  He lives in London and Beirut.  He has had poems published in several dozen journals, four pamphlets, and in two full collections: A Cracked River (Slow Dancer Press, London, 1999), and Mourning in the Presence of a Corpse (Dar al – Jadeed, Beirut, 2008).  www.bertzpoet.com.

lives in Kittery Point, Maine.  Her chapbook What becomes of Words was published by the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut, and her poems have appeared in several journals, including Mid – American Review, The Comstock Review, Presence, Vineyards, and The Anthology of New England Writers.  She was selected in 2005 for the Maine Community Foundation’s Martin Dibner Fellowship in Poetry, and she is a recent MacDowell Artist Colony Fellow.

is a poet and critic who, with his wife, Adelle, performs his work frequently in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He was born in Neptune, New Jersey in 1940, grew up in Port Chester, New York, educated at Cornell University (BA, English Literature, 1963) and the University of California at Berkeley (MA, English Literature, 1965).  Since 1988 he has hosted a show of interviews and poetry presentations on Berkeley radio station KPFA.  His current show, “Cover to Cover,” is on every Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.  His poetry books include Letters /  Lights — Words for Adelle (1987), Gershwin (1991), Adrift (1993), Exiles (1996), and (with Ivan Argüelles) New Poetry from California: Dead / Requiem (1998).  He has also published three poetry chapbooks: Advice to the Lovelorn (1998); Saint James (with Ivan Argüelles, 1988), an homage to James Joyce; and Some Songs by Georges Brassens (2001).  Foley’s Greatest Hits 1974–2003 (2004) appeared from Pudding House Press.