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is a former college professor and poet living in Burlington, Vermont. His work has appeared in the anthology Onion River: Six Vermont Poets and

is the current Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine. She is the author of four poetry collections, including When We Invented Water (Moon Pie Press,

has published five books, including two poetry collections, The Occasions of Paradise (U. Tampa Press, 2012) and The Green Girls (Pleiades Press,

has had recent work in Prairie Schooner and Cutthroat and work forthcoming in the Massachusetts Review. His most recent book, Keep Your Head

by G. H. Smith This is not a poem about the inevitability Of old age, decrepitude, and death. You won’t find a single Reference to lost

by Didi Jackson The blade came too close to my own throat. I walk as far away as I can from the home of your hands. Here, in the dark, I

by Doug Anderson They come across by light of cell phone, by blood trail, by the gleam of the coyote’s incisor, by the eye in the dollar’s

by Bruce Holsapple Sandy mountain road, twisting high thru pine & jumper, into that saddle where the peaks divide, rocky gullies start hers,

has degrees from California (Pa) State College and the University of Massachusetts. He is chair of the English department at Southern Maine

writes poetry, teaches Contact Improvisation dance, and practices massage therapy. She earned an MFA in Poetry Writing from Vermont College in

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