normal:  born in paterson nj — ww2 toddler memories on passaics last farm picking raspberries /eating worms from great–granny hannah’s victory garden — somewhere btwn 7 & 800 pieces published 1992 to present — boasting no computer skills, normal remains “one of the last american primitives” in the underground press — his most rcent book i see hungers children, selected poems 1962– 2012 published by lummox press in 2012.

Catfish McDaris: has been active in the small press world for 25 years. He shot howitzers for 3 years in the army and used to fish and hunt as a boy in New Mexico. Sometimes he goes down to Lake Michigan and feeds seagulls and dreams of mountain horses. He’s working in a wig shop in a high crime area of Milwaukee.  He’s been translated into Spanish, French, Polish, Swedish, Arabic, Bengali, Mandarin, Yoruba, Tagalog, and Esperanto.

Paul Marion: of Amesbury, Massachusetts, is the author of Union River Poems and Sketches (Bootstrap Press, 2017) and editor of the early writing of Jack Kerouac, Atop an Underwood (Viking / Penguin, 1999). His book Mill Power (Rowman & Litdefield, 2014) documents the comeback of historic Lowell, Massachusetts.

Michael Horovitz: was characterized in 1970 by Allen Ginsberg as a “Popular, experienced, experimental, New Jerusalem, Jazz Generation, Sensitive Bard.” He is a jazz poet, singer–songwriter, visual artist, translator, literary journalist, and editor–publisher. In 1959 he founded New Departures, introducing early works by Samuel Beckett and William Burroughs. In 2007 he published A New Waste Land: Timeship Earth at Nillennium. He continues to front the Wm Blake Klezmatrix band in which he sings and plays the anglo–saxophone (a kazoo–based instrument of his own devising), and to perform as a duo with Vanessa Vie. His website is www.poetryolympics.com.