is a poet and short story writer from East Norriton, Pennsylvania.  His poems have appeared most recently in Snail Mail Review, Sliver of Stone, and Tidal Basin Review.  In addition, he has published two poetry chapbooks: The Splinter in Passion’s Paw (New Spirit) and Theory of Everything (Pudding House).  Currently he teaches writing at the Community College of Philadelphia.

a poet, novelist, and essayist born in Transylvania.  In 1966, he moved to Detroit.  He is the author of dozens of books of poetry, including Jealous Witness (2008), It Was Today (2003), and his debut, License to Carry a Gun (1970), which won the Big Table Poetry Award.  He is also the recipient of the 2005 Ovidius Prize.  In 1983 he founded Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Books & Ideas.  Nonfiction, includes the retelling Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments (2011); The Poetry Lesson (2010), a teaching memoir; The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess (2009); and the memoir The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile’s Story of Return and Revolution (1991).  He wrote and starred in the 1993 documentary film Road Scholar, for which he won a Peabody Award as well as Best Documentary awards from the Seattle International Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival.  He can be heard regularly on National Public Radio’s program “All Things Considered.”  He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Baltimore, and Louisiana State University, where he was the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English until his retirement in 2009.  He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

won the 2009 Emergency Press International Book Contest for Strata, her first book published in English. Prior to Strata, she released two books in Poland, Furkot and Sopilki.  Her poems and translations have appeared in many books and magazines in Poland, England, Italy, and the United States, including The Boston Review, The Colorado Review, and Aufgabe.  She is a professor of humanities at Colby – Sawyer College.

was born in Santa Monica, California in 1945. While in high school he edited The Black Cat Review, a poetry journal and began to publish in small literay magazines around the country.  In the early 70s he co – edited Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns with Charles Bukowksi.  He has published many books of poetry, including Public Notice, The Waters Reborn, The Juggler Within, Love Proof, Animal, Elegy For Bob Kaufman, and Leaning Against Time.  In 1979 he published Ferlinghetti: A Life.  He served as writer in residence at New College of California from 2002 through 2007.  He lives in San Francisco.