Nathan Whiting is the author of eight books of poetry and has work in many magazines including Virginia Quarterly, South Dakota Review, Hanging Loose, The New York Times, and in The Best American Poetry, 2002. He performs dances in many venues in New York and elsewhere.

Frank Simone … New York poet since the early 80's . He has (MA in Linguistic Sociology, Columbia U., BFA Fine Arts, Kean U., a turn down from Yale for penury, and International Business Certificates from Pace U.) His poetry has been anthologized in In the Arms of Words (2005), Heal (2004), scads of other publications both national and international in print and online

Elizabeth Smith is a Brooklyn-based writer and artist whose drawings, short stories, and novel-in-progress explore themes from pulp westerns—at last count, she had 272 on her shelves. She is a fiction editor and columnist for Mad Hatters’ Review, writing "The Modern Buckeroos’ Guide to the Western World."

Judy Kamilhor writes very short poetry and much longer sports articles. Her haiku, senryu, and cinquains have appeared in Simply Haiku, Haiku Harvest, Wisteria, Amaze, and most importantly, Clwn Wr. She is working on her second chapbook, called Cats Dream.

Jane Ormerod’s poetry and prose has appeared widely in US and UK publications including Failbetter, Word Riot, Eratio Postmodern Poetry, Arsenic Lobster, and Dirt. A spoken word CD "Nashville Invades Manhattan" has just been released. In January 2007, Jane toured the west coast from Vancouver, Canada, to San Jose with singer-songwriter Lisa Dewey as part of the Perpetual Motion Roadshow.

Carol Novack waged uphill battles for many years as a criminal defense/constitutional lawyer. A book of her poems was published in Australia, where she received a grant equivalent to an NEA. Writings may or will be found in many publications, including The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets, American Letters & Commentary, First Intensity, LIT, Notre Dame Review, Diagram, BlazeVOX, Del Sol Review, and La Petite Zine. Carol publishes the e-journal Mad Hatters' Review: http://www.madhattersreview.com.

EK Smith writes poetry in the illustrious e-group Brevitas, makes artist books at Purgatory Pie Press with Dikko Faust, is author of Random House's upcoming How to Make Books book, teaches at Cooper Union and CUNY, and is the EK Smith Museum in a 7 year art/life performance with Linda Montano.

KFC is one of our fine organizations that support the progress of chicken and poetry. Thomas Fucaloro has won our Lord Byron Biscuit Grant. Thomas is happy...so what this means is that Thomas was chopped into 68 small pieces and mailed to 68 families where they tasted Thomas and then gave feed back to our KFC representatives and Lord Byron. So what we have here is the New Honey Barbecue Bucket Fucaloro with wings and thighs you can really rip off.....oh.....and Thomas likes poetry too.

Bob Hart likes the silences and then the birds. Says he likes the dingy city. Old now, he used to walk blocks and blocks, miles and miles of it enjoying the differences, but also the rivers’ edge – both rivers. He learned something about writing poetry with a very good teacher in high school. Later wrote poetry as a substitute for painting. At some point came onto the NY poetry circuit – stayed in it, is in it still. Like other poets you’ll hear, has been featured in various places. Is in 3 or 4 anthologies and his own chapbook ACROBAT.

Jean Lehrman came from a peach pit someone threw out in the alley. her "father", who was an artist, picked it up to use in a collage, and was surprised when a baby popped out. her mother loved it when the baby talked in poetry, and started writing it down. later jean learned to write it down herself, and she did this frequently until the alley called her back. she stopped writing for 20 years, then 3 years ago began again. she has since featured at the ear inn, the bowery poetry club, cornelia street cafe and most other places and hopes there will be some new places soon.

Trystette’s new album, The Deepest Part of My Soul, is singer/songwriter Carrie Beehan's second album. Fronting 1990's Berlin satirical band Cadillac Crooning and the Berlin electronica duo Tryst (BMG/Universal), Beehan departed from Berlin's Chamaeleon Variete stage in the late 1990s lauded as "an exceptional artist whose high-class talent as singer and performer made it a joy for us to engage her". Previously featured on MTV and international radio, Beehan has lived in five countries with a diverse renaissance background in music, film, paint and theater reflective in her lilting, beguiling & intrinsic lyrics mixed in a techno pastiche of urban & angelic textured vocals.

About Dennis Diamond … Brooklyn born and raised, self-taught (started with drums at age 5, moved to guitar at 13, started performing at 14). Done more stuff than I can remember, including a bit on Living Colour's Vivid and recording (and co-writing some of) Corey Glover's Hymns. Currently guitarist with Trystette and composing songs for a (long overdue) solo record, with a desire to form a band and tour for it…