Don Gorvett
Don Gorvett produces his powerful reduction woodcut prints on a large French Tool etching press. He is a graduate of the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. His works may be found in the collections of the Boston Athenaeum, the Portland Museum of Art, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, the Cape Ann Museum, the Duxbury Art Complex, the Currier Museum of Art, and numerous corporate and private collections. For more information and to view more examples of his work, please go to, www.dongorvettgallery.com. Please note that the front cover image is a detail from a larger reduction woodcut titled, Twilight, Portsmouth’s Finest Hour, Too,29”x44”.
Dana Wilde
Dana Wilde: writes reviews of poetry and fiction by Maine writers that appear regularly in the Off Radar column in the centralmaine.com newspapers. He lives in Troy, Maine, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. His recent book is Summer to Fall: Notes and Numina from the Maine Woods
Kevin Sweeney
Kevin Sweeney: has published three books of poems, Rags of Prayer,Ordinary Time,and Imminent Tribulations,all from Moon Pie Press. He received a master’s of fine arts from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1975. Since 1983, he has taught English at Southern Maine Community College, where he is department chair and shop steward of his union. He is a poetry editor at The Café Review.
Julie Poitras Santos
Julie Poitras Santos: has had poetry and essays appear in The Café Review, The Chart, La Fovea, The New Guard’s Bang!, and the Wesleyan University Press blog. Also a visual artist, her interests include areas where visual art and language intersect. Her artwork has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. She holds two master of fine arts degrees and teaches at the Maine College of Art. Poitras Santos lives in Portland, Maine.