The late poet Rosemary Manno moved to San Francisco in 1983. She grew up in Buffalo, New York and had lived in Paris whenever possible. Most winters she would travel to her beloved Mexico with artist-musician Roger Strobel. They shared a home life in North Beach for many years. She is a poet, artist, lover of foreign tongues, the natural world and revolutionary struggle. Her work has appeared in numerous chapbooks, magazines and anthologies. In her debut major collection Marseille which was published in 2019 by Barncott Press of London, the poems of Rosemary Manno offer disquieting and sometimes humorous images in the spectrum of existence great and small.

Archivist, poet, photographer and filmmaker, Tate Swindell is the founder of Unrequited Records, which specializes in poetry records released on the vinyl format. In addition to an album of rare Bob Kaufman recordings released in 2020, he co-edited the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman for City Lights Books (2019). He also edited ON VALENCIA STREET: POEMS AND EPHEMERA by Jack Micheline, (Lithic Press, 2019). Tate, and his brother Todd, worked extensively on the Harold Norse archives, which were donated to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. He is currently writing short stories about his experiences in the early days of the San Francisco medical cannabis movement. His previous collections of writings include Palpitations, The Creation of Deadlines and Fotopomes. His new books of poems and photos, GHOST ECLIPSE, will be published by Lithic Press in 2024.