Joe Safdie’s last two books from Spuyten Duyvil Press are The Oregon Trail (2021) and, this year, the
hybrid chapbook The Secular Divine. Next year a book of his selected essays, Poetry and Heresy, will be
published by MadHat Press. He moved to Portland in 2019 and has been studying the language of trees.
http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/the-oregon-trail.html
http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/the-secular-divine.html

Patrick James Dunagan lives in San Francisco and works at Gleeson Library for the University of San Francisco. A graduate of the Poetics program from the now-defunct New College of California, he recently edited David Meltzer's Rock Tao (Lithic Press) and Roots and Routes: Poetics at New College of California (eds. Dunagan Lazzara & Whittington, Vernon Press). His new book of poems, After the Banished (Empty Bowl), consisting of variations off of ancient Chinese poets Li Bai & co, is dedicated to Tom Clark.
https://www.emptybowl.org/.../after-the-banished-by...
https://www.lithicpress.com/inde.../our-catalog/126-rock-tao

Charles Alexander is the founder & director of Chax Press, author of 6 full-length books & 13 chapbooks of poetry, multiple essays, articles, & reviews, & editor of a critical collection on book arts. Most recent books of poetry are AT the Edge OF the Sea: Pushing Water II (Singing Horse), Pushing Water (Cuneiform), & the chapbooks Some Sentences Look for Some Periods, & Two Pushing Waters, both from Little Red Leaves Textile Series. Pushing Water III is forthcoming from Cuneiform. Has taught literature and writing at Naropa University, University of Arizona, & University of Houston-Victoria, where he directed the MFA Creative Writing Program & managed the UHV Center for the Arts from 2014 through 2018. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his partner, the painter Cynthia Miller.