Massachusetts Cultural Council Poetry Fellowship and author of the collection Picnic on the Moon, combines subjects as diverse as African-American history, myth, jazz, and family. He offers poems personal and about music--written for Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Mingus, and other music greats.

"Charles Coe is a poet's poet, a kind of jazzy, postmodern Ben Jonson: bold, plain diction; soulful, improvised swirls in a matrix of straight-ahead narrative; understaded, but shimmering with wit, compassion integrity of purpose..." -- The Boston Phoenix

Michelle Gillet has won poetry fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and published work in numerous literary magazines. She is the author of Blinding the Goldfinches, winner of the Backwaters Press Poetry Prize and published in 2005; a chapbook, Rock & Spindle (Mad River Press), and The Green Cottage, winner of the Ledge 2010 Poetry Chapbook competition, out this fall. She received an MFA from Warren Wilson College. A regular op-ed columnist for The Berkshire Eagle, writing workshop teacher and partner in editing, writing and book development business, she lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Leslie Harrison's debut book of poems, Displacement, won the 2008 Bakeless prize in poetry and was published by Mariner Books, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in July of 2009. She holds graduate degrees from The Johns Hopkins Univeristy and the University of California, Irvine. Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies. Ms. Harrison was the Philip Roth Resident in Poetry at Bucknell University for the fall of 2010 and was awarded a 2011 Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts. She resides in the Berkshires.