was born on September 24, 1934, in Great Falls, Montana.  He attended Colgate University, where he majored in English, graduated cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1956.  He earned an M.A. in English Literature at Columbia University in 1957 and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature in 1967.  He taught for 41 years at the Brooklyn Center of Long Island University (1961–1983) and at the University of Oklahoma (1983 –2000), where he served as Chair of the Department of English (1983–1990) and Director of Creative Writing (1990 –2000).  He was a founding editor of The Chelsea Review (1957– 1960) and co -founding editor of Trobar and Trobar Books (1960 –1964) with poet Robert Kelly.  He has published many books of poetry, translations, and scholarly criticisms.  His books include, Ananios of Kleitor, Poems & Fragments (Shearsman Books, 2009); Acts of Love, Ancient Greek Poetry from Aphrodite’s Garden (Random House, 2006); Century Dead Center & Other Poems (Left Hand Books, 1997); Harmonies & Fits (Point Riders Press, 1987); Voluntaries (Corycian Press Iowa City, 1984).  He is married to poet and playwright Rochelle Owens.  They live in Philadelphia and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

is an American poet born in Providence, Rhode Island.  He was, perhaps more than any other person, responsible for inspiring the entire experimental field of Language Poetry, which became popular among avant – garde, mostly American poets, during the 1960s and 1970s.  His association with the Language School, his experience as a jazz drummer, and his interest in a wide array of subjects including caves, geology, bebop, weather, Salvador Dali, Jack Kerouac, and movies often finds correspondence in his work.  His most recent books are The Act of Providence, a long poem about his home town (Combo Books, 2012), and This Time We Are Both, the result of a trip to the USSR with the Rova Saxophone Quartet in 1989.  He lives in Petaluma, California.

born in 1952, she is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic, and literary magazine editor. She is a Professor and Chair of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University.  With her husband, Paul Hoover, she edits the long – running literary journal, New American Writing. She is the author of six books of fiction and ten books of poetry, most recently The Turning (May 2008) and Among the Names (2005), both from Apogee Press.  Both her novel, American Heaven, and her book of short stories, Some of Her Friends That Year, were finalists for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award.  With Paul Hoover, she has translated The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, which was published by Omnidawn Press in 2008, and won the 2009 PEN Translation Award.

is a poet, critic, and performance artist, whose books include Definitions (1967), Autobiography (1967), Code of Flag Behavior (1968), Meditations (1971), Talking (1972 & 2001), After the War (A Long Novel with Few Words) (1973), Dialogue (1980), Tuning (1984), Selected Poems 1963 –1973 (1991) and What It Means to be Avant – Garde (1993).  His most recent book, from Granary, is A Conversation with David Antin, a dialogue with Charles Bernstein, part of which is available on – line from the Review of Contemporary Fiction.  He is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.