A Beat poet close to Kerouac and Bob Kaufman, Janice Blue is the author of In Good Old No-Man’s Land and co-writer of a book with Bob Kaufman, Closing Time Till Dawn. Sore Dove Press is pleased to have had the opportunity to publish her book Footsteps in the Empty in 2006.

James Carver, the younger and only sibling of Raymond Carver made his first appearance in print in 2007 with Sore Dove Press publication of his family memoir, Memories of Ray. James graduated from Sacramento State University and worked in management until his retirement.

Poet Neeli Cherkovski was the first biographer of both Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski. Sore Dove Press has published a book of his long poem, Naming the Nameless and two broadsides. Neeli Cherkovski's most recent book is Leaning Against Time (R.L.Crow, 2005). Sore Dove Press will publish a new book of poems by Cherkovski in 2010.

Iranian-born artist and writer Soheyl Dahi has lived in San Francisco since the late seventies. He is the author of three books of poems and a book of interviews. His paintings have been shown in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. His recent book Her: A Short Story was published by and is available from Bottle of Smoke Press.

A native of Los Angeles, poet, novelist and memoirist, Sharon Doubiago has published many books of poetry and prose. When she does not live in her van, she considers home anywhere along the Pacific Coast. Sharon received two Pushcart Awards for both poetry and fiction. She also won the Woman Writer Genius Award, Gloria Steinem’s Woman Writer Award and the Oregon Book Award. She is the author of The Book of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes, published by Graywolf.

Founder and publisher of City Lights Books, Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a living legend. Ferlinghetti was appointed in 1998 as the first poet laureate of the City of San Francisco. He has published all the Beat icons like Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Corso and many others. Americus I, a book of Ferlinghetti’s poems was published by New Directions in 2004. Sore Dove Press published a book of interview with Ferlinghetti with six new poems in 2005. His artwork on porcelain plates have been released in 2009 as a signed limited edition of 12 plates.

Poet extraordinaire Jack Hirschman has been a political activist and an advocate for the homeless for most of his adult life. He has written many books and is also a translator of the kind of poetry that would otherwise remain unseen and unheard in the U.S. Sore Dove Press is proud to have published four books of poems and several broadsides by Jack Hirschman. In 2002, City Lights published his selected poems, Front Lines. He was the fourth Poet Laureate of San Francisco.

Canadian-born poet Robert Humphrey has lived in the South-West of England since the seventies. He is the author of two chapbooks published by Sore Dove Press, Leonard Cohen: Vertigo of Surrender and Leonard Cohen: One of Those Guys, and continues to publish his poetry around the world.

Her first appearance in literary history is as a character: Duluoz's girlfriend Billie in Kerouac's novel, Big Sur. Five years later Lenore Kandel became famous for her book of erotic poetry, The Love Book. In 1966, in the dawn of the psychedelic age in the Haight-Ashbury, the Psychedelic Shop was raided by police for selling obscene literature, namely, Kandel's book. She still lives in San Francisco, though homebound as a result of a terrible motorcycle accident few years ago. Sore Dove Press has published a signed broadside poem by Kandel as part of the Meat/Beat Broadside project.

Poet and sculptor Linda King’s history is forever linked with Charles Bukowski’s. She was the main character and femme fatale of Bukowski’s celebrated novel Women. She has sculpted busts of Bukowski and has written about her tumultuous relationship with him. Sore Dove Press has published two books of poems and several broadsides by Linda King.

Joanne Kyger arrived in San Francisco at the height of the Howl obscenity trial, and soon met Gary Snyder and moved with him to Japan. She later traveled to India (with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky), events that are chronicled in Kyger's Japan and India Journal 1960-1964. In 1968, she moved to Bolinas where she has since lived, writing poetry, editing the local newspaper, traveling to Mexico, and teaching occasionally at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

The literary career of David Meltzer began during the Beat heyday in San Francisco, reading poetry to jazz accompaniment at the famous Jazz Cellar. His acclaimed book of poems, Beat Thing, came out in 2004. Sore Dove Press has published a broadside by him in 2005.

An early friend and longtime correspondent of Charles Bukowski, Ann Menebroker is one of the few women among poets known as Meat Poets. Menebroker was born in Washington D.C. but has lived in California most of her life. She began publishing in the late 1950's and continues to this day. Her latest collection is titled Tiny Teeth (R.L. Crow 2005).

Poet and political activist Sarah Menefee is a well-known figure in the San Francisco poetry scene. Her books include I'm Not Thousand Furs, The Blood About the Heart, and Human Star. She is a founding member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America.

Harold Norse was born in 1916. At age 22, he became a member of W. H. Auden's inner circle. William Carlos Williams called him "the best poet of your generation". He was nominated for the 1974 National Book Award. Norse lived in the "Beat Hotel" in Paris, from 1960 to 1963, with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. There, he wrote his experimental cut-up novel, Beat Hotel. Harold died on June 8, 2009.

Amber Tamblyn is an Emmy-nominated actress and a talented poet. She played the title character on the acclaimed CBS series Joan of Arcadia and currently plays a lead role in The Unusuals on ABC. Her first book of poems (not counting two self-printed early chapbooks), Free Stallion, was published in 2005 with an introduction by Jack Hirschman. Sore Dove Press has published two limited edition broadsides by Amber. Photo Source.

Sacramento writer William T. Vollmann is a gifted novelist and short story writer. He won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction for his book, The Atlas. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New York Times, Spin, Gear, Grand Street, and Outside. His book Imperial, was published by Viking Press. Vollmann also paints and kindly contributed a drawing to the Meat/Beat Broadside project.

A ferocious reader of her poems, Anne Waldman, a second generation Beat poet, was born in New Jersey in 1945. During the 1960s, she became part of the East Coast poetry scene, giving frequent readings at the St. Mark's Church Poetry Project, which she ran for a time. She has published many books of poetry and prose, including The Blue Mosque. With Allen Ginsberg, she founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

ruth weiss left Berlin in 1933 as a 10 year old girl and eventually moved to the U.S. Most of her relatives perished by the Nazis in various concentration camps in Europe. Weiss became a regular at the Jazz Cellar in the North Beach district of San Francisco, performing her poetry with jazz musicians like Sonny Nelson and Jack Minger. Her book of poems Desert Journal came out in 1977. She is a featured poet in the anthology Women of the Beat Generation.

A.D. Winans is a native San Francisco poet, writer and photographer. He is a graduate of San Francisco State and a member of PEN. He edited Second Coming from 1973 through 1989. His work has appeared in over a thousand literary journals and anthologies and been translated into 8 languages. He is the author of 44 books of poetry and prose. Recnt books include The Holy Grail: Charles Bukowski And The Second Coming Revolution (Dustbooks); The Wrong Side Of Town (Cross Cultural Communications); and This Land Is Not My Land (Presa Press).