lives in Northern Virginia and is the Director of Conferences for AWP.  His work has appeared or is forthcoming in several literary journals including The American Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Copper Nickel, The Kenyon Review Online, and The Literary Review, among others.

has published over seventy books and pamphlets of poetry.  He is probably best known for his work in ethnopoetics, a term he coined, involving the synthesis of poetry, linguistics, anthropology, and ethnology.

is a poet, writer, musician and artist.  His honors and awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.  He has taught at SUNY-Stony Brook, Bard College, the New School, and Naropa University.

has published eleven books of poetry, a novel, and a memoir.  He lives in Glens Falls, New York, where he practices as a psychotherapist and hosts the Lake George Jazz Weekend.  For more information, go to www.paulpines.com.