Jeffrey Beam is the author of seventeen works of poetry including Midwinter Fires (French Broad) and Visions Of Dame Kind (The Jargon Society), and a spoken word audio collection, What We Have Lost: New & Selected Poems 1977 - 2001. His The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems, 1977 - 2001 is forthcoming (Off the Cuff Books).
John Balaban is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose. He is actually Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English in the creative writing program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. In Spring, 2006, Copper Canyon Press will publish his new book of poems, entitled Path, Crooked Path,