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Gary Lawless

Gary Lawless:  is co-owner of Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick (with Beth Leonard).  His new collection of poems is How the Stones Came To Venice.  At Spindleworks Art Center in Brunswick, he has helped adults with disabilities produce three anthologies of poetry.  As an artist-in-residence at Preble Street Resource Center in Portland, he has produced an anthology of poems written by homeless and low-income authors.

Shirley Glubka

Shirley Glubka:  is a retired psychotherapist, poet, and novelist. Her most recent publication is Burst Thought Shall Show Its Root: erasure poetry.  She is a contributor to recent Littoral Books anthologies: Balancing Act 2  (poetry) and North by Northeast (fiction).  She lives in Prospect, Maine with her spouse, Virginia Holmes.

Richard Foerster

Richard Foerster:  his eighth collection of poetry is Boy on a Doorstep: New and Selected Poems (Tiger Bark Press, 2019).  His numerous honors include the “Discovery”/ The Nation Award, Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize, a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, two NEA Poetry Fellowships, and two Maine Literary Awards for Poetry.  He lives in Eliot, Maine.