lives with his wife Carol at the end of a dirt road in Vienna, Maine.  She weaves and he writes; writes mostly about prehistoric petroglyphs in Maine and elsewhere in the world.  See film “Song of the Drum” (2004).

is very active in the literary community of Los Angeles, California.  He was owner of the legendary bookstore, Papa Bach’s, and in 1972 founded the Beyond Baroque Poetry Workshop, which continues to this day.

is a poet and translator living in East Calais, Vermont.  Her most recent poetry collection is Rooms and Their Airs.  She has translated many books from French, including The Serpent of Stars by Jean Giono and Small Lives by Pierre Michon, which won the 2008 French–American Foundation Translation Prize.  She has also won the Yale Younger Poets Prize and Whiting Writers Award.  She teaches at Vermont College of the Fine Arts.

is a poet from Sonora, Mexico where she has taught literature in the secondary school system for 35 years.  She has received a variety of literary awards for her many books of poetry, which include Escrito Sobre El Fuego and Galería de Instantes from which the poems in this issue were translated.