was born and continues to live in Portland, Maine. He is a graduate of Franklin Pierce College and is the author of ten books of poetry; the latest being Twelve Moons, Twelve Poems.  He was appointed to a two – year term as the second Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine.  Twenty two years ago, he founded The Café Review and has, to this day, remained the Publishing Editor.

was born in Albany, New York and grew up in Northern Ohio.  A friend of poet Charles Olson, he edited SET in the 1960s, a literary journal that fused Modernist poetic experiment with occult and spiritual themes and served as a precursor of and influence upon the subsequent counterculture.  His books of poetry include Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth (2009), Heavenly Tree /Soluble Forest (1995), and the cross – genre collection, A February Sheaf  (2003).  He collaborated with Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese on the art book Turning Leaves of Mind (2002).  He has taught at Bard College and lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

born in Far Rockaway, New York City, he grew up in New York, Hollywood, and Europe.  He received a B.A. from the University of Maryland in 1960 and in 1962 joined the Jack Spicer circle of poets in San Francisco, where he also was friends with Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, and Robert Duncan.  He began publishing the Adventures in Poetry magazine (4 volumes, March 1968–Summer 1969) and chapbooks (1970–1976).  In 1975 he founded Danspace with Barbara Dilley and was its artistic director through 1980.  He taught writing for many summers at Naropa Institute’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, as well as at the New School University.  Since 2000 he has edited and published Sal Mimeo magazine and continues to teach privately.  Selected bibliography includes, Parade of the Caterpillars (Angel Hair, 1968); Twelve Poems (Angel Hair, 1972); Landscape, with George Schneeman (Angel Hair, 1972); Rhymes of a Jerk (Kulchur Foundation, 1974); Seven Poems (Big Sky, 1976); Poems Larry Fagin Drawings Richard Tuttle (Topia Press, 1977); and I’ll Be Seeing You: Selected Poems (Full Court Press, 1978).

over the past decade, five collections of his translations, five collections of his poetry, and two collections of essays have been published.  Over the years he has published his writing and translations in over 500 literary magazines and newspapers, and given readings of his work at over 200 universities.  He is now Professor Emeritus at Eastern Michigan University.  In the fall of 2008, Black Widow published a 600 page “Eshleman Reader,” a selection from forty years of his poetry, prose, and translations, called The Grindstone of Rapport.  Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1935, he earned a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in creative writing, both from Indiana University.  The author of more than thirty books, his collections of poetry include: Reciprocal Distillations (Hot Whiskey Press, 2007), An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire (2006), and Archaic Design (Black Widow Press, 2007).  From 1967 to 2000, he founded and edited two of the most seminal and highly – regarded literary magazines of the period.  Twenty issues of Caterpillar appeared between 1967 and 1973.  Selections from the magazine were collected as A Caterpillar Anthology  (1971).  In 1981, while Dreyfuss Poet in Residence at the California Institute of Technology, Eshleman founded Sulfur magazine.  The forty – sixth and final issue of Sulfur, which received thirteen National Endowment for the Arts grants, was published in 2000.  His awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, several fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and several research fellowships from Eastern Michigan University.  He lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan.