William Seaton is the author of Spoor of Desire and Tourist Snapshots. Seaton, whose work has also appeared in six anthologies and indozens of journals, has taught at Long Island University and Adelphi as well as in West Africa and in a New York State prison. A part from poetry, he has published translations, criticism, and textbooks.
For the past fifteen years Seaton has been dedicated to the Poetry On the Loose reading series, featuring published poets and open mike sessions. Poetry On The Loose is held currently the first Saturday of every month at Baby Grand Books and The College of Poetry.
To read Bill Seaton's Blog, go to williamseaton.blogspot.com
Robert Milby, of Florida, NY is a founding member of Northeast Poetry Center's College of Poetry in 2009 with William Seaton and Steve Calitri. He has been reading his poetry throughout the region since early 1995. Robert is the author of 5 poetry chapbooks since 1998. His first book of poetry, Ophelia's Offspring (Foothils Publishing, 2007); 2nd book of poetry: Victorian House: Ghosts and Gothic Poems is pending publication by Foothills early 2011. He has been widely published in magaizes and anthologies, and is an editor, with poet Steve Hirsch, for the College of Poetry's Annual: The Wawayanda Review due out in 2010. www.robertmilby.com
Ed Sanders, who calls himself an "investigative poet, is the author of the multi-volume America: A History in Verse and the recently released Poems for New Orleans as well as dozens of other books. He is also popularly known for his book The Family about Charles Manson, his work with the ground-breaking musical ensemble the Fugs, and his Peace Eye Book Store, a center of Lower East Side culture during the sixties.
Sanders, the featured speaker for the Poet's Sunday Supper, will return to conduct a seminar during the The College of Poetry's Summer session.
Mary Makofske received a B.S. from Douglass College and an M.A. from the University of Minnesota. A published writer of fiction and poetry (The Disappearance of Gargoyles), she has also been a reporter and college instructor.Says the poet Marge Piercy; “Mary Makofske’s poetic voice is quiet, somber, but never humorless. She writes poems that seem simpler than they are because they are immediately accessible, strongly female, directly rooted in the little and large pleasures and pains of a woman’s life...."
Body of Water, Janet Hamill's fifth collection of poetry, featuring photographs by Patti Smith, has recently been nominated for the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Prize. Bob Holman calls her “our Baudelaire.” She often performs with musicians such as Smith, Lenny Kaye, and Moving Star. Hamill serves on the Board of Advisors of the College of Poetry.
Lynn Hoins is the author of You Were Always Music which deals with love and loss. Her new chapbook Called by Stones is inspired by her long association with Pacem in Terris, the concert venue, sculpture garden, museum, and meditation center near Warwick. She writes award-winning fiction as well and serves on the Board of Advisors of the College of Poetry
