born in Vallejo, California in 1934 she is an American poet influenced by her practice of Zen Buddhism and her ties to the poets of Black Mountain, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Beat generation. She has lived on the north coast of California since 1969. She teaches frequently at the New College of San Francisco and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Her first book, The Tapestry and the Web was published in 1965. Since then she has published more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Going On: Selected Poems, 1958 –1980, (1983) and Just Space: Poems, 1979 –1989 (1991). In 2000, her 1981 collection of autobiographical writings was republished as Strange Big Moon: Japan and India Journals, 1960 –1964. More recent books include God Never Dies (Blue Press), The Distressed Look (Coyote Books), Again (La Alameda Press), and As Ever: Selected Poems published by Penguin Books; and most recently, About Now: Collected Poems from National Poetry Foundation, which won the 2008 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles National Literary Award for Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.

was born in South Dakota in 1935 and has lived in California since 1946. After Pomona College and three years as a naval officer, he became a printer and publisher in San Francisco in 1961, first at the Auerhahn Press in partnership with Dave Haselwood, publishing authors from the Beat Generation, then in partnership with Robert Grabhorn in a company named Grabhorn – Hoyem, finally, continuing after the death of Grabhorn, as the Arion Press, producing deluxe limited edition books and artist books, now nearing 100 titles — a list that includes poets such as Robert Duncan, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bill Berkson, Seamus Heaney, John Milton, William Carlos Williams, William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, Michael McClure, Vladimir Nabokov, Allen Ginsberg, Guido Cavalcanti, Frank O’Hara, W. B. Yeats, Czeslaw Milosz, and Wallace Stevens. He is the author of five books and pamphlets of poetry.

is a Soto Zen priest and guiding teacher of Empty Bowl Sangha in Cotati, California. A Dharma heir of Jisho Warner –Roshi, he began his Zen practice in 1963 with Shunryu Suzuki –Roshi at Sokoji in San Francisco. After leaving Sokoji he married and raised children, moved to Sonoma County, California, and immersed himself in psychoanalysis in the Gurdjieff tradition. Poet Joanne Kyger invited him to come to Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, run by Jakusho Kwong –Roshi who he had known from his time at Sokoji. He became a student of Kwong –Roshi and remained with him for fifteen years, during which time he was ordained as a Zen priest. He left Sonoma Mountain in 2000 and began studying at Stone Creek Zen Center with Jisho Warner – Roshi. He received Dharma transmission (permission to teach) from her and became Associate teacher at Stone Creek. He emphasizes the practice of “just sitting” (Shikantaza) and the need to reconnect our body and mind in the practice of being present to life as it arises moment by moment. He also owned Auerhahn Press which published much of the Beat poetry of the San Francisco Renaissance. The press’s goal was “to re – marry good printing and writing,” and to this end the Auerhahn published 28 letterpress – printed titles between 1958 and 1964. Most were chapbooks handset by Haselwood, later with Andrew Hoyem, in a creative and subtle variety of fonts. Its first title was The Hotel Wentley Poems by John Wieners. Its catalogue, uniformly out of print, includes works by Jack Spicer; Diane DiPrima; Philip Lamantia; Michael McClure; Philip Whalen; David Meltzer; William Everson (Brother Antoninus); Charles Olson; and the first edition of Exterminator, an early collaboration in cut – ups by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. These among others were the “insurgent American writers” that the press detected in its search for the “bold, free and courageous in modern writing.” Thanks to the printer’s touch as much as to the collaborative energies of artists like Bruce Conner, Ray Johnson, Robert LaVigne, Robert Ronnie Branaman, and Wallace Berman, the Auerhahn’s books — and its ephemera — floated in the shadows of high art. In 1964, Haselwood turned production and last rites of the Auerhahn Press over to his partner Andrew Hoyem and started Dave Haselwood Books.

is a writer and illustrator. He has been a frequent guest faculty member at Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, in Boulder, Colorado. His latest books include A Brief History of Flying and Blue Chips.