a poet and independent scholar, he is the author of eleven books of poetry including, The Hat Rack Tree (Station Hill Press) and From Mimir’s Head. His examination of the poet Charles Olson’s use of C. G. Jung, The Secret of the Black Chysanthemum (Station Hill Press) is a classic study of that poet’s work. He studied ancient Greek at Columbia University and received a doctorate in literature from the University of Connecticut. His new verse translation of Homer’s The Odyssey came out in 2008. His recent exploration of the Eleusinian Mysteries, Persephone Unveiled (North Atlantic Books, 2006) includes his translations of The Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the extant writings of Parmenides. He lives in Barrytown, New York, with classical guitarist, choral director, and research historian Megan Hastie.

born in 1945 in Colusa, California, he attended Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement.  He worked as a carpenter on both the Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg houses and built a cabin next door. His books include, I Hate the Men You Sleep With, The Only Way to Reduce Crime is to Make Fewer Acts Illegal, Dr. Montoya’s Medicine, Luminosita Numinosa, Sanguis Spiritualis, and others.  He has read at the Internazionale Percorsi Poesia Festival in Locarno, Switzerland, recorded in Ostheim, Germany, and was inducted into the Royal Order of Black Hat Fools, in Lubeck, Germany.

achieved fame in the countercultural world of the 1960s as poet, magazine founder, bookstore owner, publisher, journalist, anti – war protester, and leading force of The Fugs, a satirical folk – rock band. He is the author of a new memoir, Fug You:  An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the F**k You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side.  A major collection of his poetry was published in 2009, Let’s Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War. In 1971, he published The Family, a critically acclaimed profile of the “Manson Family,” widely regarded as a classic piece of journalism of its period.  Other books include, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century, Selected Poems 1961–1985 (1988), winner of the American Book Award; Chekhov (1995), a major verse biography of the Russian physician, writer, and dramatist; 1968: A History in Verse (1997), a mix of memoir, anecdote, and factual research about that fateful year; and Allen Ginsberg (2000), a biography – in – verse. With his wife, Miriam, he publishes the online Woodstock Journal.

began writing at age twelve and reading her poetry in San Francisco cafes in the late 1970’s. She has self – published five chapbooks, and in 2007 Vimala published her Buddhist hospice manual, Instructions for the Transitional State. Her poems have been published in various anthologies such as Poets Against the War and most recently, Beatitude — Golden Anniversary 1959 –2009. A collection of her poetry, House of the Unexpected, is forthcoming from Wild Ocean Press. Visit her website at www.julrogers.com