Steve Luttrell: is an internationally recognized Poet and Publisher. He is the founding editor of The Cafe Review, an award winning art and poetry journal, published in Portland, Maine since 1989. He is a past Poet Laureate for the city of Portland and is the author of five published collections of poetry, including his latest, Plumb Line, published by North Atlantic Books (Berkeley, Ca.) in 2015.

Carl Little: lives on Mount Desert Island, Maine. In addition to many art books, he is author of Ocean Drinker: New & Selected Poems. His poems have been featured in Maine Sunday Telegram’s “Deep Water” series, “Poems from Here” on Maine Public Radio, and Local News: Poetry about Small Towns.

Ted Kooser: lives in rural Nebraska and recently retired from fifteen years of teaching poetry at The University of Nebraska. His most recent collection of poems is Red Stilts, Copper Canyon Press, 2019. He and Connie Wanek have a collaboration in poetry for children forthcoming from Candlewick Press in 2022.

Ron Kolm: born in 1947 and lives in New York City. He is one of the founding members of the Unbearables literary collective, and an editor of several of their anthologies; most recently The Unbearables Big Book of Sex! He is a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin magazine and the editor of the Evergreen Review. His papers were purchased by the NYU library, where they’ve been catalogued as part of the Downtown Writers Group.