"Going for the heart of the matter, as though it were the soul of the thing -- the ding an sich -- that's where the revelation is, where there's no further place you can go, and all that you are has been arrived at..."

John Gilmore

Currently at work on a memoir about Marilyn Monroe, John Gilmore's books include Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia, Live Fast, Die Young: Remembering the Short Life of James Dean and many others

The Official John Gilmore site

"It is the interior image that translates to the page, the image that is created from the poet and artist as a separate language..."

Lyn Lifshin

Lyn Lifshin, whose Before It's Light won the Paterson Poetry Award, has published more than 100 books of poetry, and her work has appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies. Her new chapbook, Barbie Poems, is out.

The Poetry of Lyn Lifshin