professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, has received many prominent honors and awards.  He is the author of four books of poetry, including Thirty – Seven Years from the Stone and Natural Causes.  The Café Review wishes to thank Mark for his help in assembling Jack’s poetry for us.

his latest book of poems, On Being Human, is due from Wings Press this spring.  He has published seven other collections, and the memoirs, West of The American Dream and Strangers In Paradise: A Memoir of Provence.  He is the coordinator of creative writing at Texas A&M Press.  He met Jack Myers ten years ago and was a frequent guest at The Writer’s Garret, of which Jack was chairman and chief guru.

 is the 2009 –2014 New Hampshire Poet Laureate, and the author of Sunday Evening at the Stardust Café, winner of the 2006 Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize.  He holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College, where he studied with Jack Myers, who remained his mentor and friend.

Beltran:  graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2003 with a BA in Sociology and a Minor in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis.  She had the great pleasure of learning from Jack Myers from 1999 to 2003, considerably expanding her poetic horizons.  She was First Place winner of the 2002 – 2003 David R. Russell Award in Poetry at SMU.  Currently, she is the National Sales Director for Texas Southwest Floors, Inc.