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Christopher Soden

is a native Texan, writer, teacher, critic, lecturer, and performer, who received his MFA in Writing (Poetry) from Vermont College.  He currently writes theatre critique for The Column and EDGEdallas.com.  His honors include: Distinguished Poets of Dallas, Poetry Society of America’s Poetry in Motion Series, Founding Member, President and President Emeritus of The Dallas Poets Community.  His work has appeared in, Ganymede Poets One, Gay City 2, The Texas Observer, Sentence, Borderlands, Off the Rocks, The James White Review, The New Writer, Velvet Mafia, Poetry Super Highway, Gertrude, Touch of Eros, Gents, Bad Boys, and others.

Betsy Sholl

is the current Poet Laureate of Maine.  She has published seven books of poetry, most recently Rough Cradle (Alice James, 2009) and Late Psalm (University of Wisconsin, 2004).  Other books include Don’t Explain, winner of the Felix Pollak Award (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997), and The Red Line, which won the 1991 AWP Prize for Poetry (University of Pittsburgh, 1992).  Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including, Field, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, and The Missouri Review.  She is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship and two Maine Artists Fellowships.