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Megan Grumbling

has been awarded a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Robert Frost Award, and St. Boltoph Emerging Artist Award. Her Vassar Miller Prizewinning poetry collection, Booker’s Point, is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press in April. She is     the librettist and cocreator, with composer Denis Nye, of the Hinge / Works spoken opera, Persephone in the Late Anthropocene, which will premiere this spring in Portland, Maine.

Brian Evans-Jones

recently moved to Maine from the United Kingdom where he was Poet Laureate of Hampshire, England, and taught creative writing. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Stoneboat Literary Journal, Silver Birch Press,   Word Gumbo, Enigma, and Avocado. He is taking his master of fine arts at the University of New Hampshire and runs community writing projects in New Hampshire and southern Maine.

George Evans

is the author of five books of poetry published in the United States and England, including his most recent, The New World (Curbstone Press), and Sudden Dreams (Coffee House Press), which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He also translated The Violent Foam: New & Selected Poems (Curbstone Press), by his wife, Nicaraguan poet Daisy Zamora; cotranslated The Time Tree: Selected Poems of Huu Thinh (Curbstone Press) from Vietnamese; and edited the twovolume scholarly work Charles Olson & Cid Corman: Complete Correspondence, 19501964 (National Poetry Foundation: University of Maine). He was editor and director of the national public arts project Streetfare Journal, which displayed contemporary world poetry, art, and photography on buses in major cities throughout the United States from 1984 to 1998. His poetry, fiction, essays, and translations have been published in numerous literary magazines. He and Zamora live in San Francisco.