David Lampe is a native Iowan who completed his graduate work at the University of Nebraska, where he was a student of Karl Shapiro. Trained as a medievalist, he taught at Buffalo State College for 37 years, during which time he brought over a 100 poets and writers to read on campus. He donated a collection of over 800 books to Butler Library that show the range of those writers (English, Australian, Irish, Canadian, and American). His own first collection of poems, The Trees Walked, appeared in March 2006.

David Landrey spent 38 years teaching literature—35 of them at Buff State—where he was afforded the freedom to develop courses in American Postmodern Poets, and thus to educate himself about what has been most interesting in letters in our time. He studied briefly with Charles Olson at UB and feels blessed to have met and worked with him and so many exciting poets, known and unknown. Co-editor (with Robert Bertholf) of Drawing From Life (Moyer Bell, 1997), a selection of poet Joel OppenheimerÕs Village Voice columns from 1969 to 1984, and editor of Oppenheimer's Poetry: The Ecology of the Soul (White Pine Press, 1983), LandreyÕs own books include Intermezzi to Divorce Poems and Dinner Table Scenes (Jensen/Daniels, 2002), with Divorce Poems and Dinner Table Scenes itself still an opus in progress. A new book, Consciousness Suite, is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil. Landrey has recently had critical essays published in various collections from Talisman House, including an essay on William Bronk, and essays on Oppenheimer and Robert Creeley in The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry in Our Time.

Earth's Daughters magazine—the oldest continuously published feminist literary arts periodical in the U.S.—is currently celebrating its 36th year. Its publication is made possible by a Decentralization grant from the Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. Earth's Daughters magazine presents The Gray Hair Series, a monthly reading series hosted by Hallwalls and co-sponsored by Just Buffalo that spotlights primarily local or formerly local writers who have long contributed to the literary life of Buffalo and upstate New York.