poems appearing in this issue are from Penetralia, to be published by Black Widow Press in 2016. This fall, Black Widow will bring out Clayton Eshleman /The Essential Poetry, 1960 –2015, 231 poems spanning his long career. In December 2015, Wesleyan University Press will publish A Sulfur Anthology, based on the 46 issues of Sulfur magazine he edited between 1981 and 2000.  His website is: www.claytoneshleman.com.

is a writer and traditional storyteller from the Adirondack Region of northern New York where he lives in the house he was raised in by his grandparents.  Author of over 130 books in several genres for young readers and adults, his experiences include running a college program in a maximum security prison and teaching in West Africa.  His newest book of poetry Four Directions, New and Recollected Poems will appear this fall from Mongrel Empire Press.

is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer.  He is the best-known of a group of young poets including Frank Davey, Fred Wah, Jamie Reid, and David Dawson who studied together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s.  There they founded the journal TISH. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

is the current Poet Laureate of Rockland, Maine.  Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Cream City Review, and others.  Her most recent collection, Native Moons, Native Days, was published by Bowman’s Books in 2012.