Luis Garcia: was born in 1939 and raised in Berkeley, California. His first book of poems was published in Santiago, Chile in 1963 where he had been studying with the poet Nicanor Parra. He subsequently had volumes published by George Hitchcock’s Kayak Press, Robert Hawley’s Oyez Press, White Rabbit Press and other notable publishing houses. In recent years, he has been instrumental in organizing a series of readings at the Berkeley Art Center. He has given readings at numerous locations in Berkeley and San Francisco as well as such places as Seattle, Washington and Kauai, Hawaii.

Jim Daniels: his eighteenth book of poetry is Gun / Shy, published by Wayne State University Press. Other recent books include his fiction collection, The Perp Walk, and his anthology, RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music, co–edited with M. L. Liebler, which was a Michigan Notable Book and received the Tillie Olsen Prize from the Working–Class Studies Association (both published by Michigan State University Press). A native of Detroit, he lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and teaches in the Alma College low–residency MFA program.

Fukuda Chio-ni: 1703 –1775, fully embraced peace through the Way of Haiku.

Elliot Cardinaux: born in Dayton, Ohio in 1984, he is a pianist and poet now living in Northampton, Massachusetts. He studied jazz piano at The Manhattan School of Music, as well as contemporary improvisation at the New England Conservatory. He is the founder of The Bodily Press through which he has released the works of other poets, as well as several of his own projects, including, most recently, the full–length poetry collection Around the Faded Sun. He is a current candidate for an MFA in Poetry at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.