Contributors

Alan Brilliant is a poet who lives in Greensboro, N.C. With his wife, Teo Savory, he runs the Unicorn Press.

Thomas Rain Crowe, whose home is in the Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina, is a poet currently co-editing the bio-regional journal for the Southern Appalachians, Katuah, and is on the steering committee for the Western North Carolina Alliance.

Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and poet who lives in France.

Matt Lippa is a teacher of meditation and a carpenter who lives in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Jon Remmerde says, “I write because, though I still sometimes prospect, I’ve never found a gold nugget large enough that I wouldn’t lose it in my pocket. I write because I usually don’t remember my dreams. I write because, though I love my friends, I can’t visit for long without being overwhelmed with impatience at our doing-nothingness, unless we sing, unless we build.” He lives in Whitney Valley, Oregon.

Sy Safransky is editor of THE SUN.

Chögyam Trungpa is a Tibetan meditation master who founded the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, a center for Buddhist studies.

Thomas Wiloch is a writer who lives in Westland, Michigan.