known as “the baby of the Beat generation” because she was just 18 and had already being published by Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) in Evergreen Review.  In 1961, she moved to Vermont and built a small one – room cabin where she experimented with writing “sound” poetry.  In 1973, she founded Vermont Artisans, Vermont’s first craft sales and educational cooperative.  In 1976, she was asked by a feminist lesbian press to sit on its editorial board.  There she edited the magazine Conch and co – edited an anthology of local women’s writings and art.  Her published books include, Machig Labdrön; Footprint, (Longhouse Press, 2007); Deadly Nightshade, (Coffee House Press, 1989); You’ve got me, (Longhouse Press, 1987); Contra La Violencia, (White Pine Press, 1985); and many others.  Although partially disabled, she is still able to produce pottery, mostly commissioned dinner sets.  In the summer, she bakes whole grain sourdough bread and sells it at local farmers’ markets.

began writing as a teenager in Seattle, Washington.  At that age, he was already a veteran of the arts, having been a child actor, beginning at age nine, in TV ads and summer stock theater.  His work with partner Jonathan Williams (1929–2008) on Jargon Books brought him interaction with some of the most visionary writers and artists of the 20th Century.  He is a poet deeply trained in Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, the Germanic languages, runes, roots, herbal lore, foods, wines, gardens, astrology, and alchemy.  His books include At Dusk Iridescent, A Gathering of Poems, 1972 –1997 ( Jargon Society, 2000 ), Monotypes & Tracings (Enitharmon Press, 1994), Coromandel (Skanky Possum Books, 2003), and a translation of the ancient Chinese classic Daode Jing (Flood Editions, 2006).  Many of his poems and translations (including Beowulf  and The I Ching remain unpublished.  He lives in North Carolina, at the southernmost end of the Appalachians.

lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.  She was born in 1942 in Melbourne, Australia, and immigrated to Canada in 1951 from Malaysia.  She studied writing and English at the University of British Columbia (B.A. 1964), and comparative literature at Indiana University (M.A. 1968).  She is a poet, novelist, theorist, magazine editor, and itinerant university instructor.  She is the founding co – editor of Tessera, the bilingual journal of feminist theory.  Since the 1980s, she has served as writer – in – residence at numerous universities across Canada and mentored at Sage Hill (Saskatchewan) and the Banff Centre for the Arts.  Her extensive list of publications includes: The Given, (McClelland & Stewart, 2008); Seven Glass Bowls, (Nomados, 2003); This Tremour Love Is, (Talonbooks, 2001); Steveston, 3rd edition, (Ronsdale Press, 2001); Readings from the Labyrinth, (NeWest Press, 1998); and Taken, (Toronto: House of Anansi, 1996).  She is a member of the Order of Canada, was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters from Mount Saint Vincent University, and a Doctor of Letters from the University of Western Ontario.

was born and continues to live in Portland, Maine. He is a graduate of Franklin Pierce College and is the author of ten books of poetry; the latest being Twelve Moons, Twelve Poems.  He was appointed to a two – year term as the second Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine.  Twenty two years ago, he founded The Café Review and has, to this day, remained the Publishing Editor.