is a long–time contributor to The Café Review. Maine readers will recognize the source of her poems in this issue in Gov. Paul lipase’s removal of the Maine Labor History Mural from the state Department of Labor. Her fourth full–length volume, Calendars of Fire, will appear from Tupelo Press in April. She was the 2010 Maine Arts Commission’s Fellow in the Literary Arts and serves as coeditor of the Bleat Poetry Journal.

is a mangy old poet with bad teeth living in Ashland, Oregon. A graduate of the Kerouac School, his work has appeared — mysteriously — in various publications over the years.

teaches at Murray State University. He grew up in Alexandria Bay, NY, the Heart of the Thousand Islands, where he learned how to shoot pool and ice fish. His books include Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By, Fictions of Masculinity, and Feminism and Masculinities. His essays and reviews have been published in, among others, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Twentieth Century Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, College Literature, Signs, and Feminist Studies. His poems have appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review and New Madrid.

has had six little books published and her full length Perfect Dark, Ungovernable Press, was published by Sweden’s Lars Palm. She has had three broadsides published, Clamshell Press, Center for Book Arts, and Marymark Press. She has had four Pushcart nominations and been published in fifteen countries. Among her anthology appearances are the Unbearables’ Help Yourself, Autonomedia, and Soft Skull’s Off the Cuffs. Magazine credits include Virginia Quarterly Review, Confrontation, Gargoyle, and Volt. She has read at venues such as Poets House, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, The National Arts Club, New York Public Library, and the Brooklyn Bridge.