Craig Sipe
Craig Sipe: lives on Orr’s Island, Maine. He is author of the book Hero Sandwich. His recent work has appeared in the Maine Arts Review, Goose River Anthology, Good Fat Poetry Zine, The Café Review, and Right Hand Pointing. He is a poetry editor and the audio editor of The Café Review.
John Reinhart
John Reinhart: an arsonist by trade, John Reinhart was awarded a Dark Poetry Scholarship by the Horror Writers Association, maintains a membership with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, and cavorts with demons in full daylight. The author of seven poetry collections, his work has been published internationally and in various anthologies on themes ranging from zombies to Christianity, Judaism to climate, children to fire. Find him on social media and hiding under large rocks.
Carl Little
Carl Little: his poetry has been featured in Maine Sunday Telegram’s “Deep Water” series and “Poems from Here” on Maine Public Radio and appears in the anthology Local News: Poetry about Small Towns (2019) and Maine Coast Heritage Trust’s 50th anniversary publication “Voices from the Coast.”
Vanessa Vie
Vanessa Vie: abandoned a career in medicine in favour of literature, music, and visual art. Her latest collaboration is with British poet and artist Michael Horovitz. Her debut book Open Windows, Open Doors has just been published in Britain by New Departures. It is a volume of diverse poetic writings, plus a substantial selection of visual inventions. The book’s title invokes the opening of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s, Populist Manifesto: For Poets with Love / “Poets come out of your closets / Open your windows, open your doors, / You have been holed–up too long / in your closet worlds.” She lives and works in the UK.