Roxie Powell: was born in western Kansas during the Dust Bowl. He grew up in the high Sangre de Christo mountains of southern Colorado, where he rode in his first rodeo at LaVeta, Colorado. He earned a M.A. from Johns Hopkins University. While he’s had different loves throughout his life, the constant one has been writing, and he recalls his interactions with literary giants such as Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and other leading figures of the counterculture movement. His memoir is titled, Tumbleweed of Contradictions. After being a widower for fourteen years, he found the ultimate love of his life, Ann.

Deborah Pope: has published four books of poetry, Fanatic Heart, Mortal World, Falling Out of the Sky, and Take Nothing. Her collection, Fanatic Heart, was re–issued in the Classic Contemporary Series from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her work has appeared in such journals as Poetry, Threepenny Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, EPOCH, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Poetry Northwest. She has also been awarded the Robinson Jeffers Prize.

Charles Plymell: artist friend Bob Branaman and he were in Wichita jail together, after which he got a job running a multitilth. It was on that press he published Poets’ Corner and Mikrokosmos, two popular literary magazines. In 1967 he published his first book Apocalypse Rose which was admired by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, allowing him to be adopted by the Beat Generation. Johns Hopkins University awarded him a fellowship in 1970 where, soon after, he began to work on The Last of the Moccasins. Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Books published the novel in 1971. After receiving his M.A. in 1970, he moved to New York and started Cherry Valley Editions, publishing the likes of Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Janine Pommey Vega. He is still actively writing and his anthology Hand on the Doorknob: A Charles Plymell Reader was published in late May 2000.

Susan Bassler Pickford: is a retired adjunct teacher from the University of New England and a twenty year member of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at University of Southern Maine. A self–published memoir, Removing the Habit of God and ten books of poetry are available on Amazon.com. Poems have been published in National League of American Pen Women’s Poem of the Week, The Pen Women Magazine, Reflections, and West End News.