was born in the Bronx, New York, and has lived in New York City for most of his life. He graduated from City College of New York with a B.A. in English in 1966 and an M.A. in English in 1975. Since 1984 he has taught creative writing and literature at Queens College, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Naropa University, SUNY Albany, The New School, and The Poetry Project. He is presently an Associate Professor in the English Department at Long Island University in Brooklyn, where he is co – director of the graduate program in creative writing.  From 1966 –1975, he edited and published Angel Hair magazine and books, which he co – founded with Anne Waldman. Since 1984 he has been editor and publisher of United Artists Books. He has published numerous books of poetry, including Dreaming As One (1971), Blue Heaven (1977), Methods of Birth Control (1983), Information from the Surface of Venus (1987), Avenue of Escape (1996), and The Origin of the World (2001). He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation of the Arts, the CAPS Foundation, and The Fund for Poetry.

an internationally recognized and acclaimed poet, she has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community. She is the author of more than 40 books, including the mini – classic Fast Speaking Woman; a collection of essays entitled, Vow to Poetry; and several selected poems editions including, Helping the Dreamer, Kill or Cure, and In the Room of Never Grieve. She has concentrated on the long poem as a cultural intervention with such projects as Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of The World Compared to a Bubble; Manatee / Humanity which is a book – length rhizomic meditation on evolution and endangered species; and the monumental anti – war feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment. In 1974, she co – founded, with Allen Ginsberg, the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, the first Buddhist inspired university in the western hemisphere and is a Distinguished Professor of Poetics at Naropa. She is a recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, and has recently been appointed a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. She divides her time between New York City and Boulder, Colorado.

 a poet and independent scholar, he is the author of eleven books of poetry including, The Hat Rack Tree (Station Hill Press) and From Mimir’s Head. His examination of the poet Charles Olson’s use of C. G. Jung, The Secret of the Black Chysanthemum (Station Hill Press) is a classic study of that poet’s work. He studied ancient Greek at Columbia University and received a doctorate in literature from the University of Connecticut. His new verse translation of Homer’s The Odyssey came out in 2008. His recent exploration of the Eleusinian Mysteries, Persephone Unveiled (North Atlantic Books, 2006) includes his translations of The Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the extant writings of Parmenides. He lives in Barrytown, New York, with classical guitarist, choral director, and research historian Megan Hastie.