teaches creative writing and poetry and humanities in the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga’s interdisciplinary honors program.  He is the author of ten books of poems including Resonance (2010) (Eric Hocher Award), Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (2004) and Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (2003).  He is also the author of two crucial books, Acts of Mind: Conversations with American Poets (Choice Award) and Dismantling Time in Contemporary Poetry (Agee Award Winner).  He has been named a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, Witter – Bynner Fellow, NEA fellow, NEH Fellow.  In 2009 he won the AWP George Garret National Award for Teaching and Arts Advocacy.

born in 1933.  Lives in the North Beach district of San Francisco, where he is a member of the Union of Street Poets, a group that distributes leaflets of poems to people on the streets of the bay city.  He has also been instrumental in the formation of the Union of Left Writers of San Francisco.  His poems, which have been compared to those of Hart Crane and Dylan Thomas, often reflect the poet’s leftist political views and are noted for their novel treatment of language.  The many languages he has translated include Russian, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Albanian, Yiddish, Vietnamese, and Creole.  He remains dedicated to the power of poetry.  The Contemporary Poetry critic concluded, “He is a tireless presence at rallies, demonstrations, and benefits, and he remains one of the most galvanizing readers of poetry performing today.”

resides in the Portland, Maine area with her husband and two children.  Most recently, she won a full scholarship to attend the Stonecoast Writer’s Conference in Freeport, Maine.  She has published poems in Words and Images and The Wife of Bath and looks forward to the publication of her first chapbook, Tenants, through Finishing Line Press, available this winter.

continues to teach for City College of San Francisco and has had poems recently published in, Fugue Literary Journal, Field Magazine, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, (sadly departed), Bayou Poetry, and a recent long piece in Skidrow Penthouse coming out in September.