Alice B Fogel is the New Hampshire poet laureate. Her latest book (2017) is A Doubtful House. Interval: Poems Based on Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” (2015) won the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature and the 2016 NH Literary Award in Poetry, and her third book, Be That Empty, was a national poetry bestseller. She is also the author of Strange Terrain, on how to appreciate poetry without necessarily “getting” it. Nominated for Best of the Web and 9 times for the Pushcart, Alice has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Spillway, Hotel Amerika, The Inflectionist, and DIAGRAM. In addition to her poetry presentations with people of all ages and backgrounds, she works one-on-one with students with learning differences at Landmark College, in Putney, VT, and hikes mountains whenever possible. Find more on Alice at www.alicebfogel.com.

Donald has lived on the Vineyard off and on all his life. He published his first poem in the Vineyard Gazette, in 1976. He works as an editor and occasionally leads poetry workshops. His book of poems, Driving Lessons, was published in 2008. He has a poem in the forthcoming Cape Cod Review, also a poem on WCAI's Sunday Poetry series.

Annette has called Vineyard Haven home for over 30 years. She is a former Martha's Vineyard high school teacher of English, US and World Histories and English-as-a-second-language. She began her professional career as a writer when she was published in the Martha's Vineyard Magazine. During a seven year hiatus from the Vineyard, she served as an advertising copywriter and marketing consultant for ABC affiliate, WJET-TV, in Erie, Pennsylvania, and regularly wrote reviews of plays, operas, dance, concerts, gallery openings, and features in The Erie Times and Showcase Magazine. She also reviewed art and theater for the MV Times.
A Cleaveland House Poet, her poetry has been published in the anthology: Cleaveland House Poetry: 55 years, 2015— Legacy of Light: Poems for the Gay Head Lighthouse, 2014— Martha's Vineyard Poets' Collective New Work, 2013 — Vineyard Gazette and Martha's Vineyard Times.

Peter Ledermann is currently owner and Director of Engineering at the Soundsmith Corporation. He has spent much of his life designing and manufacturing all types of high end audio equipment including the “lost art” of hand making and rebuilding phono cartridges. He also worked for many years at the IBM T. J. Watson research center, a “think tank” located in Westchester county NY. His interests include philosophy, humor, all forms of science, travel, writing short stories and poetry, but most of all gathering with friends. He is a member of the Cleaveland House Poets and has published one book of poems, illustrated with his own water color paintings. Some of his poems also appear in the most recent Cleaveland house poetry anthology. Peter has been “spontaneously” receiving poetry since he was 9 years old, and states that he just “quickly writes what he hears”. Once given, he generally remembers most of what he has “heard” over the past 55 years.

Arnie Reisman lives on the island of Martha’s Vineyard with his wife, former television consumer reporter and executive coach, Paula Lyons. He served as Martha’s Vineyard Poet Laureate from 2014-2017. He is a member of the Martha’s Vineyard Poetry Society and the Cleaveland House Poets. His published books of poems include Clara Bow Died For Our Sins, and Sodom and Costello. He is also a columnist for the weekly Vineyard Gazette, a playwright, a filmmaker and a radio performer. His dark stage comedy, Not Constantinople, had its world premiere at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse in June, 2015, directed by MJ Bruder Munafo. Since the radio program’s debut in 1996, along with his wife, he has been a regular panelist on the weekly NPR comedy quiz show, Says You! Among his film credits are Hollywood On Trial (the Blacklist era), which received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, The Other Side of the Moon (Apollo astronaut program), which he co-produced for PBS with Mickey Lemle, and The Powder & the Glory (the Helena Rubinstein-Elizabeth Arden business rivalry), which he co-produced for PBS with Ann Carol Grossman - and became War Paint, a Broadway musical.