won the Poetry Society of Virginia’s premier prize, the Edgar Allen Poe Memorial in 2013 and again in 2014. He won the University of Tennessee poetry prize in 1977 and the Hampton Roads Writers poetry prize in 2010. In 2013, Richer Resources Publications published his first book of poetry, Imagine Morning. He has been published in Artemis Journal, and Joys of the Table, An Anthology of Culinary Verse. He lives in Reston, Virginia, and is a Vietnam veteran.

his work has appeared in the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon), Place of Passage: Contemporary Catholic Poetry (Story Line), Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader (Black Sparrow) and Under the Legislature of Stars — 62 New Hampshire Poets (Oyster River) which he also co–edited. From 2009– 2011 he was the Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. You can check out his Postcard Project at pplp.org.

his latest book is Church of the Adagio and his previous book, Gimme Five, won the 2012 Blue Light Press Award.  He appears in Scribner’s Best American Poetry 2014. Winner of three Pushcart Prizes,  he has published whole volumes of poems about Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Eakins, and New York City.

has her MFA from University of Southern Maine–Stonecoast. She most recently placed poems in Cider Press Review and Apalachee Review. In 2012, her sonnets were used as part of the text of a multi–media dance–drama titled Shackled Spirits, which was performed at Holy Cross College and the Bali Arts Festival in Indonesia.