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has published 19 books of poems, most recently After the Point of No Return, (Copper Canyon Press, 2112). He has also published ten novels, one

her roots are in the Rio Grande Valley, San Benito, Texas. She earned a B.A. in Sociology at Metropolitan State University of Denver and a Master

75, has been a teacher of German in colleges and Latin and English in private secondary schools. He was a member of the 1964 Olympic Nordic Team

is a native Californian artist, musician, and poet living in San José, California. His work is informed by the diverse and interconnected

lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with his wife and dog. He has taught at Southern Maine Community College since 2004. He earned an M.F.A. from the

is a twenty–two year old artist /poet living and working in Glens Falls, NY; a small town in the foothills of the southern Adirondack

is a poet from Burlington, Vermont. He has written freelance pieces for the arts section of the Burlington Free Press, as well as a biography of

is a long–time contributor to The Café Review. Maine readers will recognize the source of her poems in this issue in Gov. Paul

is a mangy old poet with bad teeth living in Ashland, Oregon. A graduate of the Kerouac School, his work has appeared — mysteriously — in various

teaches at Murray State University. He grew up in Alexandria Bay, NY, the Heart of the Thousand Islands, where he learned how to shoot pool and

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