is a poet, essayist, photographer, feminist, and social activist, born in New York City (1936). She lived for many years in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua, and returned to the U.S. in 1984. She now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her partner of many years, the painter Barbara Byers. Her recent books include To Change The World: My Years in Cuba (a memoir, with photos); Stones Witness, Their Backs to The Sea; My Town (poetry, with photographs); As If The Empty Chair / Como Si La Silla Vacia (poems in tribute to the disappeared of Latin America, in bilingual edition); First Laugh: Essays 2000 –2009; Something’s Wrong with The Cornfields; and Ruins.  Visit her web page at  www.margaretrandall.org for a more detailed biography, curriculum vita, up – to – date information on her books and to view ever – evolving portfolios of her photography.

is an artist, a poet, and a musician working across mediums to explore principles in common within language, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, installation, and performance. Solo exhibitions of “axial stones” and “axial drawings” include the Baumgartner Gallery in New York (Chelsea), the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, and at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. This work is featured in the published book, Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance, Foreword by Carter Ratcliff (North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, 2006). In 2006 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in video art. His most recent work in poetry (first of six volumes of preverbs), is Verbal Paradise (preverbs), from Zasterle Press (La Laguna, Spain: 2011), (distributed in the U.S. by SPD, Berkeley, California). His new book in art writing is, An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writings, Foreword by Lynne Cooke, Ediciones Poligrafa (Barcelona), in collaboration with Charles Stein, (distributed by D.A.P. in the U.S.). He taught at Stony Brook University (SUNY), Bard College, New School University (Graduate Anthropology Department), and Naropa University.

was born in 1935 in Kansas, involved in the Beat scene in New York in the 1950s, and was a notable figure in the San Francisco literary scene in the 1960s. He shared a house with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady on Gough Street in 1963.  He has been published widely, collaborated with, and published many poets, writers, and artists, including principals of the Beat Generation. He was also influential on underground comix artists such as Robert Crumb and S. Clay Wilson. He has published, printed, designed many underground magazines and books with Pamela Beach, a namesake in avant – garde publishing, whom he married.

a poet at age eleven and child performer on radio and television, he began his literary career during the Beat heyday in San Francisco and combined his poetry with jazz improvisation. He is the author of many volumes of poetry including The Clown, The Process, Arrows: Selected Poetry, 1957 – 1992, No Eyes: Lester Young, Beat Thing, and David’s Copy. This June, City Lights Bookstore published his book, When I Was A Poet, as # 60 in their renown Pocket Poets Series. As well he has published fiction, numerous anthologies, and essays including Two –W ay Mirror: A Poetry Notebook and has edited numerous anthologies such as Reading Jazz, Writing Jazz, and San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets among others. He composed, performed, and recorded as a singer /songwriter during the ’60s and 70s; albums include “Serpent Power” and “Poet Song.” He taught in the Humanities and graduate Poetics programs at the New College of California in San Francisco for 30 years and is now writing, reading, and performing on tour and in the Bay Area. Visit his website at www.meltzerville.com