-Photograph by John Laue
John Laue, teacher/counselor, former editor of Transfer, San Francisco Review, and Monterey Poetry Review has won awards beginning with the Ina Coolbrith Poetry Prize at The University of California, Berkeley. With five published books, and a sixth come out last year (A Confluence of Voices Revisited ((Futurecycle Press))), he presently coordinates the reading series of The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium. An accomplished photographer, Laue had two successful shows of his photos last year and has had many selected for local and international galleries and featured in magazines.