is an associate editor with The Café Review.  Lately, he has been working with local poets and police officers to produce The Portland Police Poetry Calendar 2010.  He learned a great deal from his friend and mentor, and fellow digger in the dirt, Jack Myers.

is a Registered Nurse, poet, freelance writer, and Publishing Editor of Oak Bend Review.  She lives with a houseful of teens, animals, and Jack in Flower Mound, TX where she dreams of becoming a Rodeo Clown but is unwilling to put up with the bull.  Please visit: www.oakbendreview.com

her poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Birmingham Poetry Review, Eclipse, Smartish Pace, Cimarron Review, roger, Atlanta Review, and Poetry East.  Her collection Call Me Misfit won the 2009 Frank Cat Poetry Prize.  She lives in Michigan.

has published eight collections of poetry, most recently Ghost Pain (Sarabande, 2005); two collections of nonfiction, the latest A Little Wildness: Some Notes on Rambling (Story Line, 2006); and a novel, A Place in Mind.  He founded, and for thirteen years edited, New England Review.  Of his seven previous poetry collections, Pursuit of a Wound, (University of Illinois Press, 2000), was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.  He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Fulbright foundations, and has taught at several European Universities as well as Yale, Wesleyan, Middlebury, and Dartmouth Colleges.  He currently teaches poetry to graduate students at Dartmouth.  His stories, poems, essays and criticisms have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated and many other periodicals, as well as in more than forty anthologies.