is a high school teacher in rural Maine.  His poetry, prose, and cartoons have appeared in many publications, including the New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, the Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and the Antioch Review.

her poetry has appeared in Runes, The Comstock Review, Room of One’s Own, Earth’s Daughters, and Georgetown Review, among others.  Her show, “Braided Lives: A Collaboration Between Artists and Poets,” was sponsored by the Taos Institute of Arts in 2003; travelled to San Francisco’s SomArts Cultural Center in 2005; and was hosted by Tennyson Gallery, Denver, CO, RANE Gallery, Taos, NM, and Studio Rasa, Berkeley, CA in 2006.  She is co – editor of HeartLodge: Honoring the House of the Poet.

his poetry collections include With Naked Foot (Little Scratch Pad, 2008) and Political Cactus Poems (Palm Press, 2005).  He founded and edits the journal ecopoetics, http://www.ecopoetics.org, which features creative – critical intersections between writing and ecology.  His most recent essay, “Thoughts on Things: Poetics of the Third Landscape,” appears in the )((eco (lang)(uage (reader)) (Portable Press at Yo – yo Labs and Nightboat Books, 2010).  He teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at Bates College in Central Maine, where he makes his home.

is the owner of Yes Books in Portland, Maine.  These poems were written while traveling Europe in 1991 –1992.  Other poems, including cantos from Clarion Vice and translations from Spanish, have appeared previously in The Café Review.