Bill Berkson — with love (1939-2016)

This week, we hold a moment of silence for our beloved friend, Bill Berkson.
In 2014, he offered us

We send him love and gratitude for the privilege and pleasure of his company.

Here is the Paris Review on the day he died. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/06/16/bill-berkson-1939-2016/
and an obituary from SFGate
http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Bill-Berkson-San-Francisco-poet-art-critic-and-8283479.php

Maureen Owen

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Maureen Owen, former editor and chief of Telephone Magazine and Telephone Books, is the author of Erosion’s Pull from Coffee House Press, a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her title American Rush: Selected Poems was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and her work AE (Amelia Earhart) was a recipient of the prestigious Before Columbus American Book Award. She has taught at Naropa University, both on campus and in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program, in Naropa’s Summer Writing Program, and edited Naropa’s on-line zine not enough night through 19 issues. Her newest title, Edges of Water is available from Chax Press, chax@the river.com. She has most recently had work in The Denver Quarterly, Vol. 48 #1, Vanitas #7, Bombay Gin’s Anselm Hollo Issue and in New American Writing 2014. Upcoming poems will appear in Hangling Loose #107, Fall 2016. She can be found reading her work on the PennSound website.