is a poet and critic who, with his wife, Adelle, performs his work frequently in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He was born in Neptune, New Jersey in 1940, grew up in Port Chester, New York, educated at Cornell University (BA, English Literature, 1963) and the University of California at Berkeley (MA, English Literature, 1965).  Since 1988 he has hosted a show of interviews and poetry presentations on Berkeley radio station KPFA.  His current show, “Cover to Cover,” is on every Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.  His poetry books include Letters /  Lights — Words for Adelle (1987), Gershwin (1991), Adrift (1993), Exiles (1996), and (with Ivan Argüelles) New Poetry from California: Dead / Requiem (1998).  He has also published three poetry chapbooks: Advice to the Lovelorn (1998); Saint James (with Ivan Argüelles, 1988), an homage to James Joyce; and Some Songs by Georges Brassens (2001).  Foley’s Greatest Hits 1974–2003 (2004) appeared from Pudding House Press.

is a poet and short story writer from East Norriton, Pennsylvania.  His poems have appeared most recently in Snail Mail Review, Sliver of Stone, and Tidal Basin Review.  In addition, he has published two poetry chapbooks: The Splinter in Passion’s Paw (New Spirit) and Theory of Everything (Pudding House).  Currently he teaches writing at the Community College of Philadelphia.

a poet, novelist, and essayist born in Transylvania.  In 1966, he moved to Detroit.  He is the author of dozens of books of poetry, including Jealous Witness (2008), It Was Today (2003), and his debut, License to Carry a Gun (1970), which won the Big Table Poetry Award.  He is also the recipient of the 2005 Ovidius Prize.  In 1983 he founded Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Books & Ideas.  Nonfiction, includes the retelling Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments (2011); The Poetry Lesson (2010), a teaching memoir; The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess (2009); and the memoir The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile’s Story of Return and Revolution (1991).  He wrote and starred in the 1993 documentary film Road Scholar, for which he won a Peabody Award as well as Best Documentary awards from the Seattle International Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival.  He can be heard regularly on National Public Radio’s program “All Things Considered.”  He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Baltimore, and Louisiana State University, where he was the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English until his retirement in 2009.  He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

won the 2009 Emergency Press International Book Contest for Strata, her first book published in English. Prior to Strata, she released two books in Poland, Furkot and Sopilki.  Her poems and translations have appeared in many books and magazines in Poland, England, Italy, and the United States, including The Boston Review, The Colorado Review, and Aufgabe.  She is a professor of humanities at Colby – Sawyer College.