Mary Warner
Mary Warner’s career in journalism included the Associated Press in Portland and the Bangor Daily News. She has returned to poetry in her retirement. Her work appears in recent or upcoming editions of Roanoke Review, Mud Season Review, and Green Hills Literary Lantern. She lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Adam Valentine
Adam Valentine writes poems and roams the woods in western Kentucky. His work has appeared in The Lumberyard, Poetry Super Highway, and The Heartland Review.
Geo. Staley
Geo. Staley is retired from 25 years of teaching at Portland Community College. He had also taught in New England, Appalachia, and on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. His poetry has appeared in Chest, Four Quarters, New Mexico Humanities Review, Fireweed, Evening Street Review, and others. Arc of the Ear is his 3rd chapbook of poems and was released by Finishing Line Press in 2015.
Meg Smith
Meg Smith is a poet, dancer, journalist, and events organizer living in Lowell, Massachusetts. She served on the board of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! from 1995 to 2009. In addition to previous appearances in The Café Review, her poems have appeared in Pudding, The Offering, Poetry Bay, and many other publications and anthologies. She has recently published her second poetry book, Dear Deepest Ghost.