earned an MFA from Vermont College.  Jack Myers was one of his four advisors.  A poem he began while working with Jack won an AWP Intro Journal Award.  Since graduating, his poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Tar River Poetry, Connecticut Review, and elsewhere.

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.