Pat Nolan is the author of numerous poetry selections beginning with Rock Me Roll Me Vast Fatality (1969) and Fast Asleep (1977) to the most recent So Much, Volumes I & II (2018-19) spanning fifty years of writing and publishing. “Interrogations” is the title poem of a soon to published selection of poems written over the last fifteen years as an exploration of sketching out longer improvisational segments into discursive compositional aggregates.
Norman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Soto Zen Buddhist priest. He has written and published steadily since the 1970’s. His recent poetry titles are Nature, There Was a Clattering As…, The Museum of Capitalism, and Men in Suits. Just out from Roof Books is his serial poem Through a Window. Chax Press brought out his Selected Poems 1980-2013 in 2022. His Experience: On Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion was published in the Poetics Series by University of Alabama Press in 2016. His latest Buddhist title is When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen. He lives in Muir Beach CA with his wife Kathie, also a Zen priest. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (wwww.everydayzen.org)
Jim McCrary’s first poems were published in the mimeo format of Grist Magazine 1966 in Lawrence Ks. Grist was edited and published by John Fowler and later went from mimeo to letterpress and finally to one of the first online mags as Grist-on-Line. Jim published 4 books, dozens of chapbooks and lots of poems in many obscure electronic and print magazines. Over the years he sat in McSorley’s with Paul Blackburn sharing bad poems with him. He sat on the roof of a hotel in Lawrence with Ed Dorn and they drank Old Style beer with John Moritz and Ken Irby. He studied with David Bromige at Sonoma State and spent time with Nolan, Mariah, Grenier, Kyger, Tills, Chadwick and others. It was the best of times. He worked most of a decade as Office Manager for William Burroughs in Lawrence, KS. McCrary is an old man and still lives in Lawrence, Ks.
Simon Schuchat has lived in New York, Chicago, Shanghai, Tokyo, Beijing and Moscow, just to name a few. His translations of Chinese and Russian prose and poetry have appeared in various anthologies and magazines, as has his own poetry, which has also been published in five collections, most out of print except for latest, THE CENTOS OF SIMON SCHUCHAT, from Aerialedge Books in DC. According to Kathy Acker, “his poetry doesn’t tell you stuff: it is consciousness.” Soviet Texts, his translations of Moscow conceptualist poet Dmitri Prigov came out in 2020 from Ugly Duckling Presse.
Ann Erickson was a WW2 baby and spent her early life on trains and on the move, growing up in the Midwestern U.S. and going to college on the East Coast. She has written poetry and short prose since she was a child but did not publish until she settled on the Russian River in Northern California. During the 49 years she lived on the River, her writing appeared in more than a hundred small press magazines and anthologies. She edited tight magazine, an independent international experimental literary quarterly, from 1989 through 2000. Ann moved north to the Pacific coast in Fort Bragg, California, in 2020 and has been painting seascapes and writing a little.
Alexandre Ferrere is a 34-year-old librarian living in Caen, France, and has a PhD on American poetry and little magazines. His poems and essays can be found both online and in print, and his latest experimental chapbook titled From Tomorrow, With Love has been published by Ethel in January 2025. Alexandre could have been a flower but cried himself to a human being.
Alexander Benedict is the editor of betweenthehighway, and he operates offset presses for a living in Cleveland, Ohio. He is also the author of the thesis “litany of the green lion,” which he is developing into a biography on Cleveland poet and publisher d.a. levy. He has had two books of poetry and German translation published: “Fragments of a Mirrored-Voice for a Friend” (Above / Ground) and “OFFHANDEDLY” (Ethel Zine). Recently, he has had two critical essays published: “waste is a form of devotion” (Community Mausoleum) and “From Requiems to Elegies” (Periodicities).
Andrei Codrescu’s (codrescu.com) latest poetry books are “No Time like Now,” “It was Today,” “So Recently Rent a World” and “An Epic of Care” (with Vincent Katz). He is currently building andreicodrescu.substack.com in Brooklyn.
Steven Lavoie is the co-founder the Black Bart Poetry Society, quickly exiled to the Corn Belt, only to return to a life in Oakland as one of the Bay Area’s best-kept poetry secrets. Before his exile with the Actualists, he launched Famous on an A. B. Dick brand mimeograph machine previously owned by Barrett Watten, co-editor with Robert Grenier of L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E, a little magazine often thought to be the crucible of the “language poetry” movement. Arguably, Ron Silliman’s work appeared in print for the first time in Famous–it also published future Nobel Prize-winner Czesław Miłosz alongside future American Book Award-winner Gloria Frym. Jackson MacLow, Victoria Rathbun, Michael-Sean Lazarchuk, Lana Marie Michaleczko, Jeffrey Miller, Andrei Codrescu, Alan Bernheimer, and Carla Harryman are among the poets to appear in Famous. The same mimeograph machine produced an affiliated series of chapbooks titled Famous Last Words. Steve spent many years writing a trail-blazing local-history column as librarian at the virtually defunct Oakland Tribune; then as librarian at the Oakland Public Library, taking up the task of bringing the collections of the Oakland History Room (now Oakland History Center) into cyberspace for the first time. He is the author of On The Way, published by Doris Green Editions, and Historic Photos of Oakland, published by Turner in Nashville, Tennessee where he should have relocated long ago to turn his considerable lyrical gift into a multi-million dollar songwriting career. Alas, he’s living in Santa Rosa, very near where he grew up in the B Section of Rohnert Park in a house designed by visionary architect Joseph Eichler. The B Section is NOT mentioned in Eichler’s Wikipedia entry.
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Mark Young was born in Aotearoa / New Zealand but now lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. He has been publishing poetry for over sixty years, & is the author of around seventy-five books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, non-fiction, & art history. His most recent books are One Hundred Titles From Tom Beckett, with paintings by Thomas Fink, published by Otoliths in June, 2024; Alkaline Pageantry, published by Serious Publications in September, 2024; The Magritte Poems, published by Sandy Press in October, 2024; the downloadable pdf, The Hit List, published by Scud Editions in February, 2025; &, due for publication, The Complete Post Person Poems from Sandy Press, & Some Unrecorded Voyages of Vasco da Gama from Otoliths.
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