Elizabeth Garber
As the 2006 Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine, Elizabeth Garber coordinated monthly poetry readings and wrote a weekly poetry column published in three midcoast papers highlighting Maine poets. She is the author of three books of poetry, True Affections: Poems from a Small Town (2012), Listening Inside the Dance (2005), and Pierced by the Seasons (2004). Three of her poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac, and her poem “Feasting” was included in his Good Poems for Hard Times. She is the founder of the Illuminated Sea Press, encouraging the independent publishing of Maine poets.
Michael Estabrook
Michael Estabrook is a retired baby boomer child-of-the-sixties, freed after working 40 years for “The Man” and sometimes “The Woman.” No more useless meetings under fluorescent lights in windowless rooms. He’s devoting more time to making better poems when not trying to satisfy his wife’s Honey-Do list.
Mark DeCarteret
Mark DeCarteret has appeared next to Charles Bukowski in a lo-fi fold out, Pope John Paul II in a high test collection of Catholic poetry, Billy Collins in an Italian fashion coffee table book, and Mary Oliver in a 3785 page pirated anthology.
Charles Coe
Charles Coe is a poet, writer, and singer and is the author of two books of poetry, All Sins Forgiven: Poems for my Parents and Picnic on the Moon, both published by Leapfrog Press. He is an Artist-in-Residence for the city of Boston, has served as Poet-in-Residence at Wheaton College and the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, and is on the faculty of the Salve Regina MFA Program in Newport, Rhode Island.