is a former landscaper and horticulturist. His debut full–length poetry collection, Capturing the Dead, won the Stevens Poetry Prize and was published in 2008 by NFSPS Press.  His poetry has appeared in The MacGuffin, Weber: The Contemporary West, and Oberon.  He is currently enrolled in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at University of North Carolina, Wilmington, where he also teaches.

is a teacher and writer.  He has published two chapbooks and two books of poems, the latest from Moon Pie Press.  He is an avid and somewhat neurotic gardener, which leads him to believe spring begins in January.  He sings with the Maine Gay Men’s Chorus and is currently writing a libretto for a opera on Charlie Howard, gay man murdered by three teens.

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.

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.