was born in Santa Monica, California in 1945. While in high school he edited The Black Cat Review, a poetry journal and began to publish in small literay magazines around the country.  In the early 70s he co – edited Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns with Charles Bukowksi.  He has published many books of poetry, including Public Notice, The Waters Reborn, The Juggler Within, Love Proof, Animal, Elegy For Bob Kaufman, and Leaning Against Time.  In 1979 he published Ferlinghetti: A Life.  He served as writer in residence at New College of California from 2002 through 2007.  He lives in San Francisco.

her poems have been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poetry East, Third Coast, Birmingham Poetry Review, Louisville Review, Agni, and others.  Between This Quivering won the Coreopsis Press Poetry Award.  She is the translator of Slovene poet Sreckop Kosovel’s Look Back, Look Ahead, and has given readings and workshops in the United States and Europe.  Her translations have appeared in The Literary Review, International Poetry Review, and The Sulphur River.  In 2005 and 2006 she participated in an international poetry translation workshop in Slovenia.

is the author of eight books of poems, eight plays, a novel, a collection of short stories, a picture book for children, and dozens of essays, introductions, speeches, and book reviews. His three most recent books of poems are Happy Life (Copper Canyon Press, 2011), While We’ve Still Got Feet (Copper Canyon Press, 2005) and Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse (Copper Canyon Press, 1999).  His collection of narrative poems, Judevine, was republished in an expanded edition by Chelsea Green Publishing Company in 1999.  His honors and prizes include an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from New England College, in Henniker, New Hampshire, in January 2009; a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry in 1981; a National Endowment for the Arts Play Writing Fellowship in 1991; The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award for Fiction in 1978; and The Vermont Arts Council’s Walter Cerf Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts in 2002.  He lives in the mountains of northern Vermont with his wife, painter Lois Eby.

is a poet, musician and visual artist.  His work has appeared in magazines, anthologies, online publications, and books for almost three decades.  His books include Species of Abandoned Light (Pantograph), Brambu Drezi (Books 1–3) (Barrytown/Station Hill), Cyclones in High Northern Latitudes (with Jeffrey Side and Rich Curtis) (Lavender Ink) among many others.  For information about his music, solo and with ensembles, visit: frontporchrecordings.blogspot.com or jakeberry.bandcamp.com.  He lives with his wife Bridget and three cats in Florence, Alabama.