Barbara Cole is the author of Little Wives (Potes & Poets, 1997). She received her M.A. from Temple University. She currently lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Villanova University.


Gregg Biglieri currently lives in Philadelphia where he pursues the Ph.D. at Temple University. He is the author of Profession (idiom 1998).


Rachel Blau DuPlessis is the author/editor of numerous books of poetry and criticism. Among these titles are The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice, The Selected Letters of George Oppen, Objectivist Nexus (with Peter Quatermain), and 3 full-length volumes of her Drafts have been published by Potes & Poets Press. DuPlessis teaches at Temple University.


Lisa Jarnot's publications include Heliopolis (rem press, 1998), Some Other Kind of Mission (Burning Deck, 1996), Sea Lyrics (Situations, 1996), and The Fall of Orpheus (Shuffaloff, 1993). She currently lives in Brooklyn.


Bill Luoma is the author of Western Love (Situations, 1996), Swoon Rocket (The Figures, 1996), and Works & Days (The Figures & Hard Press, 1998), among others. He currently lives in Hawai'i.


Jenn McCreary lives & works in Philadelphia where she co-edits ixnay magazine and press. Her errata stigmata appeared in 1999 from Potes & Poets.


Rod Smith's publications include Protective Immediacy (Roof Books, 1999), In Memory of My Theories (O Books, 1996), and The Boy Poems (Buck Down Books, 1994). He is editor of Aerial and the publisher of Edge Books. He lives in Washington, D.C.


Cole Swensen is the author of many books of poetry-- including Numen, Noon, and Try. Noon won the National Poetry Series Prize in 1996 and was published by Sun & Moon. Try won the 1998 Iowa Prize for Poetry. Swensen lives and works in Colorado.