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is the author of over thirty books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth are among his many

is the author of Sailing through Cassiopeia (2012) and A Primer on Parallel Lives (2007). He lives in the mountains of Central California.

is a poet, satirist, social activist, and co-founder of the parody news syndicate, Yossarian Universal News Service (1980). His work has

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

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

is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He is the best-known of a group of young poets including Frank Davey, Fred

is the current Poet Laureate of Rockland, Maine. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Cream

grew up in the lower Yakima valley of Washington state, where his father homesteaded a grape farm after working as a coal miner in Arkansas. His

by Jim Harrison Rumi advised me to keep my spirit up in the branches of a tree and not peek out too far, so I keep mine in the very tall willows

by Diane Wald Not sure if the buck in the rose garden is a sign or a just buck in the rose garden. He raises his velvet antlers as if he were

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