Marjorie Appleman (1928-2021) was an American playwright and fiction writer, and a resident of Sagaponack LI. In the 80s and 90s she had a number of stage productions mounted in Los Angeles, including Fox Trot on Gardiner’s Bay. She wrote a book of poetry, Against Time (Birnham Wood, 1994) and her fiction was published in such journals as Confrontation, Kentucky Poetry Review, and Long Island Quarterly.

Philip D. Appleman (1926-2020) was an American poet and writer, and a resident of Sagaponack LI. He was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. Author of seven volumes of poetry, and editor of the Norton Critical Edition, Darwin and the Norton Critical Edition of Malthus’ Essay on Population Appleman wrote many poems drawing on the work of Charles Darwin and in 2003 he signed the Humanist Manifesto.

Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr (1916-1998) was a poet and educator, and a resident of Garden City LI. Author of Moonflowers at Dusk (Birnham Wood, 1996) she was a Mennonite who grew up among the Southern Cheyenne in Oklahoma, was co-editor of Xanadu, a literary journal, and was awarded the Mary Elinore Smith Poetry Prize by The American Scholar.

Jill Bart (1900-2004) was an American poet and writer, and a resident of Water Mill, Long Island. She was author of five books of poetry, including Paumanok Press (Paumanok Press, 2002), First Light (Paumanok Press, 1988), Of Frogs and Toads (Ione Press, 1998), Out of Season (Amagansett Press, 1997), and The Naked & the Nude (Birnham Wood, 1993)

Karen Blomain (1944-2012) was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. A poet and novelist, she held an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, and went on to become a professional writer and university professor. A regular visitor to the poetry scene on the East End of Long Island, she gave lectures and presentations around the world, and was the author of The Slap (1990), Normal Ave. (1998), Hard Bargain (2009) and other works.

Margaret B Brehmer (1929-2016) was born in New Jersey, studied at Mt Holyoke, and was a resident of Greenport. A poet and a quilter, she worked for many years as an assistant editor at World Education in NYC.

John A Brennan (1950-2022) was a resident of Garden City and an award-winning author, having received a Next Generation Indies award from the NYC Harvard Club for ‘Don’t Die with Regrets, Ireland and the Lessons My Father Taught Me, an autobiography detailing the author’s childhood in Ireland, his travels, and his eventual migration to America. Brennan, who frequently wrote on the subject of the British Invasion and Rock & Roll history, also was author of Out of the Ice, The Journey, and In the Realm of Spirit.

Lynn Buck (1921-2011) was a poet and activist, and a resident of Hampton Bays, with a home on Red Creek Road named Serendipity, overlooking Peconic Bay. Remembered as a feisty community activist, she marched on Washington, wrote countless letters to the editor, and championed women’s rights and environmental conservation. Originally from Missouri, she was author of Two Minus One (Birnham Wood, 1994), and Autumn Fires (Red Creek Press, 1989), and her poetry appeared in such journals as Blueline, Crazyquilt, Heartland Journal, Live Poets Society, and Long Pond Review.

Lawrence ‘Larry’ Carradini (1953-2014) was a Long Island native from Deer Park, who rose to prominence as a principal figure and board president at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, a Lowell Massachusetts literary organization. A scientist by profession, he authored numerous works in his professional field, was n avid fly fisherman and a member of Trout Unlimited, as well as of the Museum of Flyfishing. His poetry appeared in numerous literary journals, including Café Review, and a poetry book, “Burning Heads.”

Siv Cedering (1939-2007) was a poet and fiction writer born 30 kilometers south of the arctic in rural Sweden, began writing poetry at age 8, and at age 14, immigrated with her family to San Francisco. She lived for man years on a farm on the East End of Long Island, in Sagaponack. Cedering wrote many books in her native language, as well as in English, her second language, publishing 20 books (including Playing In The Pighouse, winner of a Best Book of the Year award in Sweden) and four works of translation.

Diana Chang (1924-2009) was a Chinese-American novelist and poet, born in NYC and a resident of Water Mills LI. She was best known for her novel The Frontiers of Love, one of the earliest novels by an Asian-American woman, and is considered to be the first American-born Chinese to publish a novel in the United States. Published in Poetry Magazine as a college student, Chang worked as a book editor at Avon Books, Bobbs-Merrill and A. A. Wynn, as the editor for the -sponsored journal American Pen and was a creative writing teacher at Barnard College.

Vince Clemente (1932-2020) was a poet, biographer, critic, editor, archivist, and professor of English who lived in Stony Brook and later Sag Harbor. The son of an Italian-American fisherman and seamstress from New York City, Clemente was interested and inspired by local surroundings and artists – and noted for his extensive correspondence with numerous literary figures in the 20^th and early 21rst century. He was author of nine volumes of poetry, including Under a Baleful Star, A Garland for Margaret Fuller (2006), Watergaw Along the Thames (1999), This Shining Place (1992), Girl in the Yellow Caboose (1991), and Snow Owl Above Stony Brook Harbor (1977). He authored four books: John Hall Wheelock: North Atlantic Review (1991), John Ciardi: Measure of the Man (1986), Paumanok Rising: Figures in a Landscape (1982), and From This Book of Praise: Conversation with William Heyen (1981). Clemente took pride in the legacy of Long Island authors and artists, was a trustee of Whitman’s Long Island birthplace (where he founded the poet-in-residence program) and was a leader in the movement to erect a memorial statue to author John Steinbeck in Sag Harbor.

Lynn Carroll Cohen (1950-2019) was author of “Between the Years.” (Bluelight Press, 2017 ), “Dreams and Dreamers” (Bluelight Press 2010), and “Lonestar Days” (Salem Press 2003). She has presented scholarly papers and poetry readings in Ireland and at Hofstra, and taught at Hofstra and Suffolk Community College. A co-editor of The North Sea Poetry Scene’s LI Sounds III and IV poetry anthologies and other poetry anthologies, she studied at Syracuse University, where she was a student and mentee of Pulitzer Prize Winning poets Stephen Dunn and W. D. Snodgrass.

Ellen de Pazzi (1933-2003) was a producer, painter, poet, cable television host and resident of Westhampton LI. She served as a director of the Hampton Art Center, began a sidewalk show program for children’s art, and was a longtime friend of the late Russian-born painter and poet David Burliuk.

Richard Elman (1934-1997) was born in Brooklyn, lived in Stony Brook, and in addition to being a novelist and poet, was a world-traveling journalist, focusing extensively on urban poverty in 196a0s America (Compton, LES) as well as the war in Nicaragua against the Somoza regime. He was also publicity director for WBAI. His childhood experiences in Yiddish-speaking Brooklyn is colorfully retold in his novel Tar Beach, and his poetry books included Homage To Fats Navarro, The Man Who Ate New York, Cathedral-Tree-Rain and other poems; and translations from Euripides and Menander.

Willam A Fahey (1923-1998) was a resident of Northport and taught at CW Post English Department. His scholarly studies of Francis Ponge, John Donne, Anglo-Irish Literature and Eastern mysticism helped forge a poetry style that forged classical eroticism with bawdy Anglo-Irish writing traditions. He was editor of West Hills Review at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, author of F Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream, and the poetry chapbooks Body Parts and Fruit and Vegetable Suite, both published by Birnham Wood Graphis in the 1990s.

Pat Falk (1950-2022) was born in New York City and lived in Amityville LI. She taught at Nassau Community College and Empire State College, and won wards from the National League of American PEN Women, the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92^nd St Y, the National Writer’s Voice Project, and the Edward C Mack Fellowship. Her books include Crazy Jane, In The Shape Of A Woman (Canio’s Editions) and a literary memoir, It Happens As We Speak: A Feminist Poetics.

Ray Freed (1925-2009) was, until moving to the Kona Coast in Hawaii, closely associated with the Street Press poetry scene, and before that a NYC saloon that featured poetry readings (Diane Wakoski, Paul Goodman, Jack Micheline) called Dr Generosity Pub, where he was a waiter. His poetry is full of paradox and playful, disjointed wordplay superimposed on ‘street talk,’ to deliver poetry of striking and incisive social commentary. He was publisher of Dr Generosity Press in the 60s, and his chapbooks included numerous Street Press collections, (Much Cry, Little Wool, All Horses are Flowers, Hualalai, Shinnecock Bay and necessary lies, etc).

Pierre Gazarian (1937-2017) was born in Paris, France, came to the United States at the age of fifteen, when his older brother Jean joined the United Nations, and divided his time between an apartment on Beekman Street and a cottage in Orient. He studied at the Lycee Francais and Columbia University, worked for Renault USA at an early age, and was its President when, in 1987, he chose an early retirement. The author of wry, engaging poems, described as grieving, often somewhat surreal, he read widely across Long Island and penned If You See My Dog His Name Is Moon and Seagull on my Roof, with contributions by his sister, Marie-Lise Gazarian, Director of the Graduate Program in Spanish, St. John’s University

Jennie Hair, (1923-2010) b Mary Virginia Reppert, was poet, chorister, scholar and graduate of Wellesley College, a school psychologist and member of the Friends community on Long Island. A resident of Northport, she was active with the Long Island Poetry Collective and published A Sisterhood of Songs and An Old Century; A New Testament.

Barbara Hoffman (1936-2017) was a resident of West Babylon, and a popular poet and educator on Long Island. The author of Each in Her Own Way (Queen of Swords Press, 1994) and Catholic Girls (Penguin, 1992), she earned her undergraduate degree at Adelphi University and a Masters of English and Creative Writing from SUNY Stony Brook; and worked at the Berkeley School as their Director of Placement and as an English Teacher at Uniondale High School until she retired in 2006.

Jean Kemper Hoffman (1918-2012) was born in Larchmont and was a long time resident of Eats Hampton, where she was a poet and short story writer. She was author of The Palette: Hampton Artists Cookbook, and Storm Warnings. Politically active, she organized an anti-McCarthy group in Manhattan in the 1950s, and ran for public office on the east end.

David Ignatow (1914-1997) was born in Brooklyn and spent most of his life in New York City and East Hampton. He began his professional career as a businessman. After committing wholly to poetry, Ignatow worked as an editor of, among other periodicals, the American Poetry Review and Beloit Poetry Journal, and as poetry editor of The Nation. He taught at the NYU, Columbia and the New School, among others, was president of the Poetry Society of America from 1980-84. His many honors include a Bollingen Prize, two Guggenheim fellowships, the John Steinbeck Award, Sheeley Memorial Ward, Frost Medal, William Carlos Williams Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters award for a lifetime of creative effort.

Kay Kidde (1930-2020) was a poet and NYC literary agent living in Westhampton. For 25 years she was at the agency Kidde, Hoyt & Picard, and held prior positions at NAL and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. She served on the board of the Peconic Community Council, and founded the Peconic Housing Initiative in Riverhead for the homeless. A Vassar graduate, her books of poetry include Home Light: Along the Shore (1994), Sounding for Light (1998) and Early Sky: New and Collected Poems (Writers Ink Press 2002).

Jeanette Klimszewski (1920-2012) was a poet and co-host of a long-running reading series at the Stony Brook Library. An East Northport resident, she had a career as an educator and coach at Commack HS and professional clown, and as a poet was known for hosting soirees at her home. Her book of poems Promise was praised for its spirituality, appreciation for nature, and sensitivity to human fragility.

Lynn Kozma (1919-?) was a poet living in West Islip, and author of two volumes of poetry — Catching the Light (Pocahontas Press, 1989), Phases of the Moon (Papier-Mache Press, 1994)

Aaron Kramer (1921-1997) was a poet, educator and social activist who lived in Oakdale and taught at Dowling College. Born in Brooklyn, he wrote his first protest poems in his teens and wrote extensively about such subjects as the Holocaust, Spanish Civil War, McCarthyism, Suburbia, and the African-American experience. A mentor to many Long Island poets, his selected poems, Wicked Times (University of Illinois) surveys his poetry and offers a detailed account of Kramer’s life, along with photos and extensive explanatory notes.

Robert Long (1954-2006) was a resident of East Hampton, editor of the collection Long Island Poets, author of DeKooning’s Bicycle (Farrar, Giroux, Straus) and Blue (Canio’s Editions), and a contributor to The New Yorker and Partisan Review. In DeKooning’s Bicycle, the poet mixes storytelling with history to re-create the lives and events of East End icons Jackson Pollock, Fairfield Porter, James Schuyler, Frank O’Hara and Willem DeKooning, who shaped American art and literature as we know it today.

Barbara Reiher-Meyers (1935-2019) was raised in Richmond Hills and was a long-time resident of Ronkonkoma, where she ran an annual Princess Ronkonkoma Poetry Competition. A board member of the Long Island Poetry Collective, she curated a Long Island poetry calendar, ran monthly workshops in Ronkonkoma, edited several volumes of poetry, and hosted poetry readings widely across the region, including for North Sea Poetry Scene, Northport Arts Coalition and Smithtown Township Arts Council. Sounds Familiar was the title of her first book of poems.

Melanie Brawn Mineo (1954-2021) was born in Maine, studied at Stony Brook and Saybrook Universities, and was a resident of East Quogue. A poet, educator, and philosopher, she taught at Dowling College and published her poems regionally.

Dan Murray (1936-2000) was a Mattituck resident, winner of the Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America, and member of the ‘circle’ of Street Press poets that included Graham Everett, Ray Freed, Jim Tyack, Allen Planz and more. Recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including a Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Modern Drama, his books include None of This is On The Map (Street Press), Casualty Claim (Cumings Press), Poetry With A Purpose (Backstreet Editions), and Duck (Birnham Wood).

Raymond Patterson (1929-2001) was born in Harlem, moved to Long Island as a teenager, received his MA in English from NYU and was a prolific poet whose work was widely anthologized. Author of 26 Ways of Looking At a Black Man and Other Poems (1969) and Elemental Blues (1983), founded the Langston Hughes Festival at CCNY, and served on the boards of the Walt Whitman Birthplace, the Poetry Society of America, and PEN American Center.

Edmund Pennant (1917-2002) was born in New York City and taught in the NYC school System and at Adelphi University in Garden City. A Queens poet laureate, he was a MacDowell Colony and Yaddo Fellow, member of the Modern Language Association, served on the governing board of the Poetry Society of America, and was the author of The Wildebeest of Carmine Ave and Askance and Strangely: New and Selected Poems (Orchises Press).

Si Perchik (1923-2022) aka “the most widely published unknown poet in America.” Was educated at NYU, worked as an attorney before his retirement in 1980, and resided in East Hampton. He was best known for his highly personal, non-narrative, untitled style of poetry, which appeared in over 30 books,

Sue Pilewski (1969-2022) was born in Flushing and lived in Smithtown and surrounding areas until her untimely death. An educator and poet, she taught at Stony Brook and Suffolk Community College. published Fetish (Writers Ink Press) in 2007, and was anthologize widely.

Allen Planz (1937-2010) was born in Queens and was a poet and fisherman, former poetry editor of Nation Magazine, and a regular on the East End and Manhattan poetry scene. Fourteen books of his poetry and hundreds of his articles have been published. He was the recipient of numerous awards and endowments, including an award from the North Sea Poet Society in 2005 and a 1976 Pushcart Prize, was a contributor to The East Hampton Star and was also a teacher, having led a “poets in the schools” program in Suffolk County grammar and high schools and seminars on writing poetry for fellow teachers.

Georgette F Preston, (1927-2022) daughter of painter George Constant, was a resident of Water Mill, and a member of the East End writers community. Her published books include a richly illustrated 1961 biography of her farther, and Wedded To The Light: Poems of the Aegeean, Songs of Cities (Birnham Wood)

Louis Simpson (1923-2012) was born in Jamaica, lived in Stony Brook. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, for his work At the End of the Open Road. A student of Mark Van Doren at Columbia, he taught at Columbia, UC-Berkeley and SUNY Stony Brook. He also briefly taught at The Stony Brook School, a private college prep school, prior to his retirement.

Hope Terris (1952-2022) was a poet and educator at Long Island colleges, including Suffolk Community College and Farmingdale, and a resident of Rocky Point. She studied at Stony Brook Southampton in their MFA program, won The Raynor Wallace Award, the West Hampton Writing Competition and The American Penwomen State competition.

Virginia R Terris (1918-2012) was born in Brooklyn, a resident of Freeport, a poet and professor at Adelphi, and a member of the Modern Language Association, Poetry Society of America, and Common Cause. Her books include Folding/Unfolding and The Metaphysical Raisin (Birnham Wood Graphics) and PUR-R-R (Channel Press).

Jim Tyack (1938- 2003) was a member of the Port Jefferson based Street Press group, poet and visual artist living in New Hampton, NY. Born in Brooklyn in 1938, has worked as a land surveyor, bartender, clown, art critic and college professor. He has published numerous books and chapbooks of poetry, including: THE RENTED TUXEDO, A LIMOUSINE TO NOWHERE, and TUNDRA. His work has appeared in Down Here, Exquisite Corpse, Prairie Schooner, The Village Voice, etc.) and has been widely anthologized (Starting From Paumanok, On Good Ground, Paumanok Rising, The Stiffest of the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader, Thus Spake the Corpse, In Autumn, The McGraw Hill Book of Poetry).

Michael C Walsh (1949-2015) of Rocky Point, graduated at the top of his class from Gilmour Academy, did course work at Yale University and John Carroll before taking his B.A. in Anthropology from Cleveland State University, and was an active fossil collector and a prolific writer, much of his writing drawing on his lifelong study of prehistory as well as the natural and spiritual worlds. A member of the Southampton Writers Group at the Rogers Memorial Library, he was the author of Up Green Ladders (Birnham Wood).

Richard (RB) Weber (1929-2004) was a resident of Flanders, a co-editor of Long Island Quarterly, and completed a long teaching career (Skidmore, Univ Louisville) at Southampton College. An honors graduate in English from Bates, he earned an M.A. from Iowa State University and Ph.D. from the Union Institute. He conducted poetry and creative writing workshops, acquiring signed copies of books from visiting writers, bequeathed as part of a several-thousand volume library to the Ladd library. A mentor to young writers and poets and a civil rights activist during the ’60s who also supported environmental causes, Weber’s chapbooks include Beard Poems, Poems from the Xenia Hotel and Movie Poems (Birnham Wood).

Muriel Weinstein (1924-2018) was born in Brooklyn, lived in Great Neck, and was a poet, educator and author of children’s books.one of her books, Play, Louis, Play!: The Story of a Boy and His Horn”, about Louis Armstrong’s childhood — told to the tune of his first trumpet — won the Paterson Prize, a national poetry award, and was nominated for the Texas Bluebonnet Award.

Maxwell Corydon Wheat Jr (1927-2016) was a poet, naturalist and activist living in Freeport. Born in Geneva, NY, he was named Nassau County Poet Laureate by acclamation among the poetry community after his position was taken from him by county authorities, Wheat established poetry programs throughout LI – workshops and talks at the Freeport Library, poetry programs at Cedarmere, home of poet William Cullen Bryant and at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, Taproots programs in Syosset and Port Washington, workshops at the Hempstead Plains, courses at the Farmingdale Adult Education program, and conducted readings and talks throughout Long Island. He collaborated with the NYS Marine Education Association, National Marine Education’s Association, Federation of NYS Bird Clubs, Science Council of NYC, The American Nature Study society in Dingman’s Ferry Pennsylvania, a Cape Hatteras National Seashore. His books included Limulus, Thermalling (publisher Virginia Terris) and Art Gallery (Birnham Wood).

Claire Nicolas White (1925-2020)was an American poet, novelist and translator of Dutch literature. She was a niece of Aldous Huxley and related by marriage to architect Stanford White. born in Groet, Netherlands, the daughter of a Dutch stained-glass artist who emigrated to America just before World War II, she grew up in the European exile community in New York City and lived in St James LI. Founder and editor of Oberon Magazine, her many books of poetry include Here and There (Street Press), An artful of time (Waterline Books) and News From Home (Birnham Wood).

Jack Barrett Wohl (1932-2021) was a resident of Roslyn Heights, an attorney with an extensive private practice, and a supervising ADA in the Queens District Attorney’s office. Self taught as a painter, pianist and poet, he participated widely in poetry readings around Long Island.