born in 1933.  Lives in the North Beach district of San Francisco, where he is a member of the Union of Street Poets, a group that distributes leaflets of poems to people on the streets of the bay city.  He has also been instrumental in the formation of the Union of Left Writers of San Francisco.  His poems, which have been compared to those of Hart Crane and Dylan Thomas, often reflect the poet’s leftist political views and are noted for their novel treatment of language.  The many languages he has translated include Russian, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Albanian, Yiddish, Vietnamese, and Creole.  He remains dedicated to the power of poetry.  The Contemporary Poetry critic concluded, “He is a tireless presence at rallies, demonstrations, and benefits, and he remains one of the most galvanizing readers of poetry performing today.”

resides in the Portland, Maine area with her husband and two children.  Most recently, she won a full scholarship to attend the Stonecoast Writer’s Conference in Freeport, Maine.  She has published poems in Words and Images and The Wife of Bath and looks forward to the publication of her first chapbook, Tenants, through Finishing Line Press, available this winter.

continues to teach for City College of San Francisco and has had poems recently published in, Fugue Literary Journal, Field Magazine, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, (sadly departed), Bayou Poetry, and a recent long piece in Skidrow Penthouse coming out in September.

was born in 1971 in Skopje, Macedonia.  She attained a doctoral degree in Romanian literature in Bucharest where she worked as a lecturer of Macedonian language and literature.  Her prizewinning debut collection Progenies of the East (together with Boris Cavkoski) was published in 1992, and she has since written four more books of poetry, Fire of Letters, Bitten Nails, Nobel vs. Nobel, and pH Neutral for Life and Death and has edited an anthology of young Macedonian poets.  In 2006 Ugly Duckling Presse from N.Y. published a selection of her poetry translated in English.  In 2009 she received the German prize “Hubert Burda” for younger Eastern European poets.  The US publisher “Copper Canyon Press” is going to publish her second book of poetry in English “pH Neutral History.”  She lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia.