Peter Money
Peter Money: his work has been found in The American Poetry Review, Provincetown Arts, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Talisman, The Hawaii Review, The North Dakota Quarterly, Origin, Hunger Mountain, Rivendell, Napalm Health Spa, in the City Lights’ anthology Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds, and on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, among others. His books include These Are My Shoes (1991), Finding It: Selected Poems (2000), To day — Minutes Only (2004) with Iraqi exile modernist Saadi Yousef, the CD Blue Square, and the underground novella, Che (2006 -2008). He has been founder or cofounder of the literary magazines, Writers Bloc (1985), Lame Duck (1988), and Across Borders (2005). He lives on a foothill of Mt. Ascutney, in Vermont, with his librarian wife and son and daughter. He directs a new Associate of Arts program at Lebanon College in NH and teaches courses such as “A Seminar In Form and Flux” at The Center For Cartoon Studies in VT.
Michael Macklin
Michael Macklin: is a maker of wooden things and word collections. He is also an associate editor for The Café Review. He aspires to be a crusty old man and learn the patience of stone.
Steve Luttrell
Steve Luttrell: founded The Café Review twenty years ago and remains the publishing editor. We, who know him, applaud and congratulate him on this long-standing “service to the muse.” He was born and continues to live in Portland, Maine, is a graduate of Franklin Pierce College, and is the author of ten books of poetry. His latest title, Twelve Moons, Twelve Poems, is currently available. He is married to Catherine who has phenomenal handwriting.
Joanne Kyger
Joanne Kyger: studied at University of California, Santa Barbara. She moved to San Francisco in 1957 and became involved in the beat poetry scene. In 1960, she joined Gary Snyder in Japan, where they soon married. She later traveled to India with Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky. She returned to the United States in 1964 and her first book, The Tapestry and the Web was published the next year. Kyger has published more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including, Going On: Selected Poems, 1958 –1980, (1983) and Just Space: Poems, 1979 –1989, (1991). She has lived in Bolinas, California since 1968, where she has edited the local newspaper and done some occasional teaching at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. In 2000, her 1981 collection of autobiographical writings was republished as Strange Big Moon: Japan and India Journals, 1960 –1964, which Anne Waldman has called “one of the finest books ever in the genre of ‘journal writing’.” More recent poetry collections include God Never Dies (Blue Press), The Distressed Look (Coyote Books), Again (La Alameda Press), and As Ever: Selected Poems published by Penguin Books. Her most recent book is About Now: Collected Poems from National Poetry Foundation. It won the 2008 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles National Literary Award for Poetry.