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grew up in Brooklyn, New York, became a merchant seaman, and spent 1965 – 66 in Vietnam, after which he drove a taxi and tended bar until he

was recently invited to read his poetry for the second time by the Library of Congress. He is the poet laureate of Maine. The poem in this issue,

is the current Vermont Poet Laureate. He is the author of 10 poetry collections, most recently, I Was Thinking of Beauty (Four Way Books, 2013);

is the humanities poetry director of the Manayunk Roxborough Art Center where he has been coordinating a literary series since 1990. His poems

has published poems in the The Café Review, Cimarron Review, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Quercus Review. Her

has published dozens of poems in The Café Review. Three of them won the Helen Williams Award and were published in the Manhattan Mercury,

is a freelance writer and photographer whose work has appeared in The Portland Daily Sun, Dispatch Magazine, Magnitude, The Portland Forecaster,

is professor emeritus of English at West Virginia Wesleyan College where he teaches in the low–residency MFA Writing Program. His tenth

lives in Seal Beach, California, where he tends to several hundred plants, is apprenticed to a master mason, plays blues piano evenings, and

hails from Cleveland, Ohio where he lives with his wife, cat, and collection of 1960s soul records. Formerly a rural Ohio high school teacher, he

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