was born in Newcastle, England in 1946, left school at 14, and in 1964 co – organized the Morden Tower poetry readings, “a Golden Bloomsday for the revival of British poetry in the 60s.”  Called “the lyrical post – beat enfant terrible of the alternative poetry scene in 60s/70s UK,” he is credited with encouraging the British poet Basil Bunting to begin writing again. He was a great supporter of American experimental poetry, and gained a reputation as something of an ally among such poets as Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Olson.  His most recent offerings, Hole in the Wall: New & Selected Poems and The Dark Months of May were published by Flood Editions in 2002 and 2004 respectively.

is an American poet, writer, and self taught painter who left the U.S. for France in 2005 after becoming disillusioned with American culture and politics.  In the Shade of Arrows: A Memoir, is an experiment in “lean” autobiography, a “life” stripped of the romantic entanglements, but which includes an examination of a severely dysfunctional birth family and the resulting personal trials that shaped his character.  In 1976, he published his first of four books of poems.  His last, A European Education (1986), is a chronicle of his travels, actual and emotional, through the “geography” of the Holocaust.  He has two daughters and a son.  He divides his time between Vermont, where his children live, and Paris.

is a prominent Russian poet, the author of three books of poetry, and in 1981 was awarded the Andrey Bely Prize.

was born and lives in Rockland, Maine where he is Poet Laureate.