George Wallace is guest editor of this section. He is editor of Poetrybay and co-host of PoetryBrook at WUSB. He has published eight chapbooks and recorded several CDs. His latest books are Swimming Through Water (La Finestre Editrice 02, distributed by Writers Unlimited USA 03) and Greatest Hits (Pudding House Press, 03). Creator of the four-city Big Sur marathon, he appears frequently in performance with David Amram, and recently opened for Levon Helm, former lead singer of The Band.

Steve Abbott is a founding member of The Poetry Forum and teaches at Columbus State Community College. His work has appeared in Wind, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Heartlands Today, and several anthologies.

David B. Axelrod's most recent of fifteen books of poems is Random Beauty. His poems have appeared in hundreds of magazines internationally and in a dozen languages. He is director of Writers Unlimited Agency, Inc. and sponsors writersunlimited.org and poetrydoctor.org.

Anny Ballardini, Italo-American journalist, translator and artist, lives in Bolzano, Italy. She translated into Italian George Wallace's collection, Swimming Through Water, and is currently translating the poetry and essays by Arturo Onofri.

Joe Bruchac's Abenaki Indian ancestry is a major thread in his writing. Two new books of his poetry, Ndakinna and Above The Line, will be published in 2003 by West End Press.

Bill Costley has lived (mostly) in Wellesley MA since 1979. His early poems appeared in the '60s underground/smallpress, often in Hugh Fox's Ghost Dance magazine and chapbooks. Most of his recent poems appear in online publications.

Ruth Daigon was founder and editor of Poets On:. Poetry awards include the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, 1997; and the Greensboro Poetry Award, 2000. Her publications include the Pudding House "Greatest Hits" series, 2000; Payday At The Triangle (2001) and Handfuls of Time (2002).

Adriana DiGennaro, a first-year student at Bennington College, was on Red River Reviewıs list of nominees for a Pushcart Prize in 2001. Her first book of poetry, Peripheral Vision, was published in 2001 by Writers Ink Press, and her poetry has been featured in various newspapers and online poetry sites.

Charles Fishman is director of the Distinguished Speakers Program at Farmingdale State University. His books include Mortal Companions, The Firewalkers, Blood to Remember:  American Poets on the Holocaust, and The Death Mazurka. His eighth chapbook, Time Travel Reports, was published by Timberline Press in Fall 2002.

Carol Hamilton is a former Poet Laureate of Oklahoma. Recent books include: Breaking Bread, Breaking Silence (Winner of the Chiron Chapbook Award), Gold: Greatest Hits, I, People of the Llano, and a children's novel, I'm Not From Neptune (not yet released).

C.E. Hegarty is currently an adjunct lecturer in the Speech and Theater Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). She is the author of Rafting to Galapagos (1994; Mindware Press).

Born in England, Tamara Jenkinson was raised all over the place, mostly Ireland, England, France, and Spain. A naturalized citizen of the U.S., she has published in local college magazines and chapbooks, and online at PoetryMagazine.com and SeekerMagazine.com.

Kate Kelly is Associate Editor of Poetrybay and a visual artist and poet who has been writing and presenting poetry with a strong sense of image and situation for two decades. She has a published collection of poems titled Barking at Sunspots.

Charles Levenstein is author of Lost Baggage, published by Loom Press in Lowell, Massachusetts. His poems have been published in many online journals, including Poetry Bay, Poems, Niederngasse, and Artemis. His latest (non-fiction) book is The Cotton Dust Papers (Baywood Publications).

Stefanie Lipseyıs poems have appeared in Reflections, Freshet, Poetz.com, Roguescholars.com, Big City Lit, The PPA Literary Review, and in the anthologies, Touched by Eros and Up From Ruins. She works in a library on Long Island.

J. Rutherford Moss is the author of The Other Side of the Window:  poems of grief, published by Mahtigwess Press, Ltd. She is a Transformational Breath facilitator working in the New York area and abroad. J. Rutherford works as a substitute teacher in the public schools promoting poetry whenever she can.

Barbra Nightingale is professor of English at Broward CC, South Campus, Fla. Her first full length collection won the 1999 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Award. Her Greatest Hits was published by Pudding House Press in 2000. She has had three other chapbooks published.

Robert Plath was born in Brooklyn in 1970. He has published poems in The Chiron Review, The Long Islander, Long Island Quarterly, Nerve Cowboy, Poetrybay, Polarity, and Sho, and this past summer appeared on two tracks of the Northport Celebrates Kerouac CD featuring David Amram. About ninety-five percent of his poems make references to wine, beer, whiskey, cigars, smoke, ashtrays, and death.

Orel Protopopescu's poetry has appeared in several literary reviews. Her book of translations, A Thousand Peaks, Poems from China (with Siyu Liu) was published by Pacific View Press in 2002. Simon & Schuster published her two picture books. A book for teachers, Metaphors And Similes You Can Eat and another, 12 More Poetry Writing Lessons, are forthcoming from Scholastic.

Lauri Ramey writes poems, essays and reviews in Wales, where she is Director of Creative Writing at Cardiff University. Every Goodbye Ain't Gone, her anthology of avant-garde African American poetry co-edited with Aldon L. Nielsen, is forthcoming from University of Alabama Press.

Michael Rothenberg has published several books of poems including Favorite Songs, Nightmare of the Violins, What The Fish Saw, and The Paris Journals. In Fall 2003, Unhurried Vision will be published by La Alameda Press. He is author of the novel, Punk Rockwell (Tropical Press) and publisher/editor of internet magazine Big Bridge.

Patti Tana is the author of the forthcoming collection, Making Your Way Across This Bridge:  New & Selected Writings (Whittier Publications, 2003), which will include this poem. She is also professor of English and Coordinator of the Creative Writing Project at Nassau Community College (SUNY) and the Associate Editor of Long Island Quarterly.

Mary Jane Tennerelli has appeared in ZuZu's Petals, the Poetry Super Highway, Another Sun, The Green Tricycle, Long Island Quarterly, The American Muse, and The University of Alaska's Explorations 2002. Her chapbook, Til Death Do Us Part, was recently published by Blast Press.

Susan Terris's book, Fire Is Favorable To The Dreamer, has just been published by Arctos Press. In 2004, Gary Metras at Adastra Press will publish a letterpress edition of her chapbook, Poetic License, and Marsh Hawk Press will publish her third full-length book, Natural Defenses.

Jim Tyack was born in Brooklyn and received a B.A. from SUNY Stony Brook and an M.A. from The Johns Hopkins University. He has published several books of poems and his work has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Prairie Schooner, The Village Voice, and elsewhere.

Barry Wallenstein is author of five poetry collections, most recently, A Measure of Conduct (Ridgeway Press, 1999). He is professor of literature and creative writing at the City University of New York and an editor of American Book Review.

Marc Widershien is a Boston-born poet and educator whose lyrical memoir, The Life Of All Worlds from Ibbetson Street Press, is now in its second printing. In addition, he is on the advisory board of the new renaissance, a magazine of ideas and opinions.