Reed Bye’s most recent poetry collections include Earth’s Hollow Breathing; Morning Rites; and Addled Smoke Material: Collaborative Poems with Jack Collom 1972-2017. He has new album of original songs, Down Here. He is Professor Emeritus at Naropa University where he served on the core faculty of the Jack Kerouac School, teaching poetry writing workshops and courses in classic and contemporary literary studies and contemplative poetics. 

“The mind may move faster than the hand can write but Reed Bye’s poems capture the dictates of thought as processed by the conspiratorial and wandering eye, all the light and shadow of the natural world, the peripheral glimpses of people and places where few poets ever go. Lucid, abstract, impulsive, beyond the pale—Fire for Thought is both a summing up and a starting over—'what seems to be necessary,' and something much more.”— Lewis Warsh

Mike Parker was born in the brass mill town of Waterbury Connecticut in 1944. D'Spare Press published three collections of his poetry: Don't Fall Off the Mountain, Wallflower Sutra, and Walking on Water in a Razorblade Breeze, and he has three live poetry CDs. He sang in the band Ballistic Kisses, recording two albums on Beggars Banquet Records, Total Access and Wet Moments. He served two terms of Artist in Residence for the Ward Public Library and was the recipient of the Neodata Literary Fellowship from the Boulder County Arts Alliance. He lives with his wife the poet Mary Johnston Parker and daughter Frannie in the town of Ward Colorado on the edge of the Indian Peaks Wilderness.