Paul Pines
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
Wesley McNair
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,
Sydney Lea
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);
Peter Krok
is the humanities poetry director of the Manayunk Roxborough Art Center where he has been coordinating a literary series since 1990. His poems
Leonore Hildebrandt
has published poems in the The Café Review, Cimarron Review, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Quercus Review. Her
Raymond Hall
has published dozens of poems in The Café Review. Three of them won the Helen Williams Award and were published in the Manhattan Mercury,