was born in Albany, New York and grew up in Northern Ohio.  A friend of poet Charles Olson, he edited SET in the 1960s, a literary journal that fused Modernist poetic experiment with occult and spiritual themes and served as a precursor of and influence upon the subsequent counterculture.  His books of poetry include Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth (2009), Heavenly Tree /Soluble Forest (1995), and the cross – genre collection, A February Sheaf  (2003).  He collaborated with Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese on the art book Turning Leaves of Mind (2002).  He has taught at Bard College and lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

born in Far Rockaway, New York City, he grew up in New York, Hollywood, and Europe.  He received a B.A. from the University of Maryland in 1960 and in 1962 joined the Jack Spicer circle of poets in San Francisco, where he also was friends with Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, and Robert Duncan.  He began publishing the Adventures in Poetry magazine (4 volumes, March 1968–Summer 1969) and chapbooks (1970–1976).  In 1975 he founded Danspace with Barbara Dilley and was its artistic director through 1980.  He taught writing for many summers at Naropa Institute’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, as well as at the New School University.  Since 2000 he has edited and published Sal Mimeo magazine and continues to teach privately.  Selected bibliography includes, Parade of the Caterpillars (Angel Hair, 1968); Twelve Poems (Angel Hair, 1972); Landscape, with George Schneeman (Angel Hair, 1972); Rhymes of a Jerk (Kulchur Foundation, 1974); Seven Poems (Big Sky, 1976); Poems Larry Fagin Drawings Richard Tuttle (Topia Press, 1977); and I’ll Be Seeing You: Selected Poems (Full Court Press, 1978).

over the past decade, five collections of his translations, five collections of his poetry, and two collections of essays have been published.  Over the years he has published his writing and translations in over 500 literary magazines and newspapers, and given readings of his work at over 200 universities.  He is now Professor Emeritus at Eastern Michigan University.  In the fall of 2008, Black Widow published a 600 page “Eshleman Reader,” a selection from forty years of his poetry, prose, and translations, called The Grindstone of Rapport.  Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1935, he earned a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in creative writing, both from Indiana University.  The author of more than thirty books, his collections of poetry include: Reciprocal Distillations (Hot Whiskey Press, 2007), An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire (2006), and Archaic Design (Black Widow Press, 2007).  From 1967 to 2000, he founded and edited two of the most seminal and highly – regarded literary magazines of the period.  Twenty issues of Caterpillar appeared between 1967 and 1973.  Selections from the magazine were collected as A Caterpillar Anthology  (1971).  In 1981, while Dreyfuss Poet in Residence at the California Institute of Technology, Eshleman founded Sulfur magazine.  The forty – sixth and final issue of Sulfur, which received thirteen National Endowment for the Arts grants, was published in 2000.  His awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, several fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and several research fellowships from Eastern Michigan University.  He lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

was born on September 24, 1934, in Great Falls, Montana.  He attended Colgate University, where he majored in English, graduated cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1956.  He earned an M.A. in English Literature at Columbia University in 1957 and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature in 1967.  He taught for 41 years at the Brooklyn Center of Long Island University (1961–1983) and at the University of Oklahoma (1983 –2000), where he served as Chair of the Department of English (1983–1990) and Director of Creative Writing (1990 –2000).  He was a founding editor of The Chelsea Review (1957– 1960) and co -founding editor of Trobar and Trobar Books (1960 –1964) with poet Robert Kelly.  He has published many books of poetry, translations, and scholarly criticisms.  His books include, Ananios of Kleitor, Poems & Fragments (Shearsman Books, 2009); Acts of Love, Ancient Greek Poetry from Aphrodite’s Garden (Random House, 2006); Century Dead Center & Other Poems (Left Hand Books, 1997); Harmonies & Fits (Point Riders Press, 1987); Voluntaries (Corycian Press Iowa City, 1984).  He is married to poet and playwright Rochelle Owens.  They live in Philadelphia and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.