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Linda Buckmaster

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Linda Buckmaster: has an MFA from the University of Southern Maine. Her poetry, essay, and fiction have appeared in over forty journals, including The Café Review, Fall 2019. She has held residencies at Vermont Studios Center, Atlantic Center or the Arts, and Obras Foundation among others. Her hybrid memoir, Space Heart: A Memoir in Stages, was published by Burrow Press in 2018. Her latest hybrid, Elemental: A Miscellany of Salt Cod and Islands (Huntress Press 2022), is the first installment in a series of creative and eclectic responses to the beauties and realities of islands across the North Atlantic Rim.

Michael Basinski

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Michael Basinski: born in Buffalo, New York, he is the Curator of the Poetry Collection, State University of New York at Buffalo. His many books of poetry include Of Venus 93 (Little Scratch Pad, 1997) and All My Eggs Are Broken (Blaze VOX Books, 2007). He published more than 100 poetry titles and his work has appeared more than 750 times in literary magazines and journals. He co–founded Moody Street Irregulars: A Jack Kerouac Newsletter, a publication dedicated to the history and cultural influences of Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation. He performs as a solo poet and with the sound ensemble, BuffFluxus.