Natasha Sajé
Natasha Sajé: is the author of two books of poems, Red Under the Skin (Pittsburgh, 1994) and Bend (Tupelo, 2004), and many essays. She teaches at Westminster College in Salt Lake City and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Ed Sanders
Ed Sanders: achieved fame in the counterculture world of the 60’s as poet, magazine founder, and leading force of The Fugs, a satirical folk rock protest band. In 1962, he founded his infamous avant-garde journal, F**k You: A Magazine of the Arts. Two years later, he opened the famous Peace Eye Bookstore, in Greenwich Village which became an international Mecca for Bohemians and radicals. Later, he achieved national recognition for his 1971 book, The Family, a study of mass murderer Charles Manson and his followers that was critiqued as “excellent” and “terrifying.” His poetry has been likened in energy and ambition to William Blake, Walt Whitman, and Allen Ginsberg, blending slang, neologisms, classical Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. His book 1968: A History in Verse (1997), was named the Poetry Book of The Year. If you haven’t heard Ed’s CD, “Songs in Ancient Greek,” (1990) you haven’t heard the epitome of scholastic lyrical poetry. He not only wrote but is exemplary of Tales of Beatnik Glory. Ed lives in Woodstock, New York with his wife, the writer and painter, Miriam R. Sanders. Together they publish the Woodstock Journal.
normal
normal: lives in Saugerties, New York.
Jack Myers
Jack Myers: the 2003-04 Texas Poet Laureate, and Professor of English and creative writing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, is the author of sixteen books of and about poetry, including: Routine Heaven (2005), the textbook The Poet’s Portable Workshop (Wadsworth, 2004) and The Glowing River: New & Selected Poems (Invisible Cities Press, 2001), winner of The Violet Crown Award. Others include OneOnOne (Autumn House Press, 1999) and Blindsided (Godine, ’93) winner of the 1993 Texas Institute of Letters Award, and an anthology of contemporary poetry coedited with Roger Weingarten, New American Poets of the 90s. He has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Texas Institute Awards, is a National Poetry Series Open Competition winner, and Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at several universities. He served as the co-Vice-President for Associated Writing Programs from 1993-95, as well as Chairman of The Writer’s Garret, a Dallas literary center founded by his wife Thea Temple.