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J. P. Dancing Bear is the author of Billy Last Crow (Turning Point Books, 2004), seven chapbooks including Gacela of Narcissus City (Main Street Rag, 2006) and his second book of poems, Conflicted Light, to be published in 2007 by Salmon Poetry.  He is the host of “Out of Our Minds” a weekly poetry program on public radio station KKUP, the editor of The American Poetry Journal and the independent literary press, Dream Horse Press.  His poems have appeared in many journals, including The National Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Mississippi Review and New Orleans Review.

See J.P. Dancing Bear’s website.

See "Gacela of Animal Theory", poem of the day on Verse Daily for July 26.

  Dion Farquhar is a poet and prose fiction writer interested in her formative experience of the 1960s.  Her work has appeared in AUGHT, Rogue Scholars, Xcp: Streetnotes, boundary 2, Sulfur, Hawaii Review, Lip Service, American Letters and Commentary, Exquisite Corpse, City Works, Cream City Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly, among others.  Her chapbook, Cleaving, is the winner of the 2007 Poets Corner Press Chapbook Contest.

Read four poems by Dion Farquhar on the website of The Argotist.
 

Debra Spencer invented her own alphabet when she was three.  She wrote her first book in the second grade and went on to earn a BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1972 and an MA from San Jose State University in 1988, where she won the Anne Lillis Memorial Scholarship for Poetry.  In her desk she keeps a Bart Giammati baseball card, a fossilized sharkÕs tooth, the tuning key to an Anglian harp, and a piece of the Berlin Wall.  She works at Cabrillo College as a learning disabilities specialist, and sings with Community Music School of Santa Cruz.

Read five poems from Pomegranate by Debra Spencer on the Hummingbird Press website.
 

Philip Wagner was born in Santa Cruz County, served in the Peace Corps, edited the underground newspaper ACT in Paris, founded Resisters Inside the Army, made 10 documentaries and has published psychology and political articles as well as poetry.  He lectures on myth, psychology and art.

Read two poems by Philip Wagner on the Good Times website.
 

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