Jon Andersen is the author of a book of poems, Stomp and Sing (Curbstone Press/ Northwestern University Press 2005), and the editor of an anthology, Seeds of Fire: Contemporary Poetry from the Other U.S.A (Smokestack Books-UK 2008).

Judy Shepps Battle has been writing poems long before she became a psychotherapist and sociology professor at Rutgers University. Widely published both in the USA and abroad during the Sixties and Seventies, she deferred publishing to concentrate on career and family. Fortunately her muse was tenacious and she continued to write during the next three decades filling a file cabinet with scrawled and typewritten poems that are now being organized into chapbooks and individual submissions. The material submitted for publication represents her return to active participation in the writing community. She can't think of a better way to spend her retirement. In the past six months, her poems have been accepted in a variety of publications including A Handful of Stones; Ascent Aspirations; Barnwood Press; Battered Suitcase; Caper Literary Journal; Epiphany Magazine; Joyful; Message in a Bottle Poetry Magazine; Raleigh Review; Rusty Truck; Short, Fast and Deadly; and Write from Wrong.

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal has published widely in the small presses. His two most recent chapbooks are: Before And Well After Midnight, from Deadbeat Press, and Still Human, from Kendra Steiner Editions.

Robert Bohm is a poet and culture writer. He was born in Queens, New York. His 2007 Uz Um War Moan Ode is available from Pudding House Press. Other credits include two other books, a chapbook and work published in a variety of print and online publications. More information on Bohm's work can be found at his blog, Lethal Injections for the Conditioned Mind, and his website, Unburials: The Writer as Graverobber.

Jennifer Hollie Bowles lives in Knoxville, TN, where she edits The Medulla Review and avoids people who suffer from the lymphatic neurosis of sitcoms. Her work has been accepted for publication in over fifty literary journals, including The New York Quarterly, 3:AM Magazine, Muscle and Blood, The Toronto Quarterly, and Thieves Jargon. Jennifer's first poetry chapbook, Fire and Honey, was published with Flutter Press in July, 2010.

Buff Whitman-Bradley is the author of two books of poetry, b. eagle, poet and The Honey Philosophies. His work has appeared in a number of print and online journals. In addition to writing, he produces documentary videos and audios. His interviews with soldiers who have refused to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan can be heard on the Audio Project at www.couragetoreist.org. He lives with his wife Cynthia in northern California.

Christopher Butters’ poetry has been published here and there in small press magazines and anthologies since the last nineteen seventies. But he is proudest of his poetry contributions to Pemmican and Blue Collar Review, two magazines which have helped keep the flame of progressive working class poetry alive during this time in the United States. He is a former poetry editor of Political Affairs: A Magazine of Marxist Culture, and is the author of Garden State Graffiti and Other Poems (Pemmican), The Algebra of Doing It (Partisan Press) and Americas (Vietnam Generation) . He was recently reelected to his fourth term as a chapter chair of his AFSCME local in New York City.

Jared Carter is a Midwesterner from Indiana. He has published three books of poems. A fourth, Cross this Bridge at a Walk, was recently issued by Wind Publications in Kentucky. The book consists of a series of narrative poems dealing with incidents in American history from the Revolution to the present. For more information please visit Jared Carter's web site at http://www.jaredcarter.com.

Leonard J. Cirino is the author of 16 chapbooks and 13 full-length collections of poems from numerous presses since 1987. He lives in Springfield, Oregon, where he does home care for his 94-year-old mother. His collection, Ululations: Poems 2006, was published in 2008. His 104 page collection, Omphalos: Poems 2007 has been selected by Cervena Barva Press for 2009. Recent publications and acceptances include America (NYC), Osiris, Blue Collar Review, Pemmican, thepedestalmagazine.com, The Iconoclast, Barnwood, Grasslimb, Poesia, and others.

Tony Christini is the author of Political Fiction: Ganoga, Homefront, YouthTopia and Other Works. He is the creator of the websites Political Novel and Imaginative Literature and Social Change. With Mike Palecek and Andre Vltchek, he is the cofounder of Mainstay Press.

Philip Dacey's most recent full-length book, his eighth, is THE MYSTERY OF MAX SCHMITT: POEMS ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS EAKINS (Turning Point, 2004). Two recent chapbooks are THE ADVENTURES OF ALIXA DOOM AND OTHER LOVE POEMS (Snark, 2003) and MR. FIVE-BY-FIVE (Pudding House, 2005). He recently moved from Minnesota, his base for 35 years, to Manhattan's Upper West Side. His website is: www.philipdacey.com.

Lyle Daggett's books of poems include If There Is A Song, The First Light Touches Me and What Is Buried Here, all published by Red Dragonfly Press, and The Idea of Legacy, published by Musical Comedy Editions. His poems, translations, essays and book reviews have appeared in Blue Collar Review, Main Street Rag, Free Verse, Pemmican, and in many other publications. His blog is A Burning Patience, http://aburningpatience.blogspot.com and is one of the best resources for poetry available on the Web. He lives in Minneapolis.

Bill Dorris is a Yank mostly from California who ended up in Ireland by the usual chance processes chaosing all our lives, and that's fine by me. 'Derivatives' is courtesy of Terkel's /Hard Times/ and Jay Gould's buddies finally cranking it up this side...

Stacia M. Fleegal is the author of Anatomy of a Shape-Shifter (WordTech, forthcoming 2010) and the chapbooks The Lines Are Not My Friends (second place, Cervená Barva Press chapbook competition, forthcoming 2009) and A Fling with the Ground (Finishing Line Press, 2007). Individual poems are forthcoming in Fourth River, Skidrow Penthouse, Blue Collar Review, The Kerf, Prick of the Spindle, and Babel Fruit, and have appeared most recently in Inkwell, New Verse News, Dos Passos Review, and Protest Poems. She received her MFA in writing from Spalding University and is co-founder and managing editor of Blood Lotus (www.bloodlotus.org).

Brittany Fonte holds an MFA in Creative Writing. She currently teaches Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing at two universities, as well as acts as an assistant editor at Lowbrow Poetry Press. Her fiction and poetry can be found in journals such as Literary Mama, 42Opus, Wrong Tree Review, Breadcrumb Scabs and Mat Black Magazine. She enjoys creating poems while she runs or practices yoga; her drink of choice is caffeinated and sugar-free.

Anthony Frame is an exterminator who lives in Toledo, OH with his wife and cat. His first chapbook, Paper Guillotines, was published by Imaginary Friend Press and his poems have been published in or are forthcoming from Third Coast, Blue Collar Review, Versal, Tulane Review, Splinter Generation, and New Plains Review, among others. He is the co-founder and co-editor of Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Learn more at http://www.anthony-frame.com/

Miguel Gardel lives in New York and attended the City College and has worked at many things from janitorial to journalism and back again. His stories and essays have appeared in Tribes, Bi-lingual Review, Inquisitive, Political Affairs and others.

Veronica Golos won the 16th annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize (Story Line Press) for her book, A Bell Buried Deep (to be re-issued by Red Hen Press). Her second book, Vocabulary of Silence, (Red Hen Press, Feb. 2011) is a meditation and response to the continued wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the full-length poetry collections Lovesick (Press Americana, 2009), Heart With a Dirty Windshield (BeWrite Books, 2010), and Everything Reminds Me of Me (Desperanto, 2011), as well as numerous print and digital poetry chapbooks, including most recently Inspired Remnants from Red Ceilings Press and The Penalty for Trying from Ten Pages Press.

Terry Hauptman is a poet/painter who has traveled to many corners of the world, but her home now is in Vermont. She is the author of four poetry collections, Masquerading In Clover,(Boston, Four Zoas) Rattle,(Tulsa,Cardinal Press) and On Hearing Thunder,
(Minnesota, North Star Press.) Her newest manuscript with many poems published in Pemmican, and other journals, "The Indwelling of Dissonance," is circulating at publishers. She reads her poetry rhapsodically and exhibits her 5'x50' Songline Scrolls,nationally.

Katherine L. Holmes has had creative work appear in Barnwood, Cider Press Review, Eclectica, Literary Bird Journal, The South Dakota Review, Beyond the Margins, Review Americana, Shadowtrain, Straddler, Streetcake, Stirring, and Word Riot – more than 50 journals. In 2005, she was nominated for a Pushcart in poetry. Her web site is: http://home.earthlink.net/~klouholmes/

Suzanne Marie Hopcroft is a PhD student in Comparative Literature and writes poetry and fiction from New York City. Her work is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Gargoyle, LITnIMAGE, elimae, JMWW, and others. Suzanne also teaches developmental reading at a community college in the Bronx and writes fiction reviews for magazines including The Literary Review, World Literature Today, and Small Axe.

Raymond Keen was born in 1941 in Pueblo, Colorado, graduated with a B.A. degree in Psychology from Case Western Reserve University in 1963 and an M.S. degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Oklahoma in 1966. Five of his poems were published in the July/August 2005 Issue of The American Poetry Review, as follows: “Video Confession On Vacation in New York City,” “Going to Hell,” “Ixion,” “Holiday Madness, 1976” and “How It Will End (Previously Recorded).” He has also been published in Breadcrumb Scabs. He currently lives in Sahuarita, AZ.

Cleo Fellers Kocol loves making social comment, whether in poetry or prose. Recently her poetry appeared in the anthology, Riffing on Strings; one of her short stories was published in the anthology, When Last on the Mountain. Three of her novels were also published: Fitzhugh's Woman, Cleopatra: Immortal Queen, and her latest offering which takes place mostly in China,The Good Foreigner. The China book gave her a chance to weigh in on the Chinese Civil War, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square massacre in fictional form. All the books are available on Amazon.com

Benjamin C. Krause is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Diamond Point Press, an international non-profit (read: we lose money) publishing company. He is the author of one poetry chapbook, Classifieds and Other Poems, and his writing has also appeared in places such as Nibble, The Literary Bohemian, and Foundling Review, and is forthcoming in Gargoyle. Though primarily a freeverse poet, he has invented three forms called the byte, the quincouplet, and the shuffle. An article entitled "The Quincouplet: A Matter of Words" was published in Galatea Resurrects in issue 16. More information is available at http://benjaminckrause.com/.

Lavinia Kumar lives in New Jersey, and is now retired after various science and science education degrees, and uphill battles to get educators to use new technologies. She’s from Ireland, her husband’s from India, and they have a family of increasing multiculturalism. Her poetry has appeared in Waterways, Thatchwork (Delaware Valley Poets), Orbis, US1 Worksheets, Caper and the US1 newspaper.

P.J. Laska has been a poet-dissident since the days of the Vietnam War protests. At the end of the Seventies he edited THE UNREALIST-a Left Literary Annual. Several chapters of his translation and commentary on the Dao De Jing appeared in LEFT CURVE 33. He recently relocated from Appalachia to the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona.

Michelle Lerner is an attorney living in New Jersey, and worked as a legal aid lawyer for 10 years. She has an MFA from the New School and her poems have been published in various journals and anthologies. She is always thankful to discover (the few) fora that exist for political poetry, as it is what primarily interests her.

Grant Loveys lives in St. John's, Newfoundland - a small city on Canada's eastern edge. His work has appeared in numerous literary publications. More at http://grantloveys.tumblr.com.

Lucia May is a poet, violinist and longtime arts advocate who teaches and plays in St. Paul, MN. Her poems have been chosen for publication in Main Channel Voices, the Evening Street Review, Hot Metal Press, and Little Red Tree International Poetry Prize 2010: Anthology, among others.

B.Z. Niditch is a poet, playwright, fiction writer and teacher. His work is widely published in journals and magazines throughout the world, including: Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Art; The Literary Review; Denver Quarterly; Hawaii Review; Le Guepard (France); Kadmos (France); Prism International; Jejune (Czech Republic); Leopold Bloom (Budapest); Antioch Review; and Prairie Schooner, among others. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Mark Pawlak grew up in Buffalo, New York, and has lived in the Boston area for almost forty years. He has taught writing, science and mathematics at various levels and is presently Director of Academic Support Programs at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, where he teaches mathematics. Pawlak's original poems, and his translations from the German of Bertolt Brecht and others, have appeared widely in magazines, journals, and anthologies. SPECIAL HANDLING: Newspaper Poems New and Selected is the latest of his four poetry collections. He has received awards from the Massachusetts Artist Fellowship Program and from the Fund for Poetry. He is co-editor of Hanging Loose Press based in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 1966, Hanging Loose is arguably the oldest, continuously running, independent, literary magazine and press in the country. Hanging Loose counts among its stable of notable poets Sherman Alexie, Ha Jin, Jayne Cortez, and Hettie Jones. Last year Pawlak edited Shooting the Rat: Outstanding Poems and Stories by High School Writers, the third in a series of his anthologies drawn from the celebrated high school section of Hanging Loose magazine. Shooting the Rat is a collection of extraordinary poems and stories by 93 of the nation's most outstanding high school writers and it was recently name a 2003 top young adult non-fiction title by both VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) and by the Association of Pennsylvania School Librarians. All the work first appeared in the special high school section of Hanging Loose magazine, the standard for cutting-edge work by teenage writers since 1968. Pawlak has given hundreds of readings and performances of his work locally, across the nation, and overseas.

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Rafts (Parsifal Editions) is his most recent collection. For more information, including his essay “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” and a complete bibliography, please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com/.

dan raphael waits patiently for more poems to come. Besides Pemmican, current poems appear in Otoliths, Knock Journal, New Mystics, Unlikely Stories and Heavy Bear. :Last December saw the re-issue of 1985's Bop Grit Storm Cafe; most recent book of new material is Breath Test; Impulse and Warp: Selected 20th Century poems, should out by 2011. dan would like to come to your town and read/perform, as he has at Wordstock, Bumbershoot, Portland Jazz Festival and Burning Word. Otherwise, living in Portland, working at the DMV, arranging readings, reading a variety of fiction and non-, & brewing.drinking and reviewing beer.

Doren Robbins has published poetry in over seventy literary journals, including The American Poetry Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Indiana Review, International Poetry, Hawaii Review, Paterson Literary Review, Sulfur, New Letters, 5 AM, Exquisite Corpse, Willow Springs, Bombay Gin and Hayden's Ferry Review. Essays and book reviews have appeared in Sagetreib, Contact II, Onthebus, and The Daily Iowan. From 1975-82, he was co-editor for the Los Angeles-based journal Third Rail. In 1994 he served as a contributing editor to the Japanese-based literary journal Electric Rexroth. Robbins has received a state fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts, as well as prizes, grants, and awards from The Indiana Review, River Styx, Literal Latte, Passaic Poetry Center, the Loft Foundation, The Centrum Residency Program, The Judah Magnes Museum (first prize for the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Jewish Poetry Award), The Chester H. Jones Foundation (commendation prizes in '93, '96 and '97), The Lane Literary Guild (first prize), The Seattle Arts Commission and, as an editor, from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines and The California Arts Council. His four previous collections are Driving Face Down, winner of The Blue Lynx Prize, Lynx House Press, 2001; The Donkey's Tale (Red Wind Press, 1998); Sympathetic Manifesto (Perivale Press, 1987); and The Roots and the Towers (Third Rail Press, 1980). His chapbooks are Dignity in Naples and North Hollywood, introduction by Philip Levine (Pennywhistle Press, 1996), Under the Black Moth's Wings (Ameroot, 1987); Seduction of the Groom (Loom press, 1982). In 2006, Eastern Washington University Press will publish a new book of poems, My Piece of the Puzzle. A mixed media artist as well as a writer, two of his works are currently on exhibit at the Crossing Boundaries: Visual Art by Writers exhibit, held at the Paterson Museum in New Jersey. Currently, he teaches creative writing and literature at Foothill College where he is director of the Foothill Writers' Conference.Currently, he is Professor of Creative Writing/Literature at Foothill College, where he is coordinator for The Foothill Writers' Conference.

Daniel Romo teaches high school creative writing, and lives in Long Beach, CA. His recent poems can be found in Scythe, Fogged Clarity, and Praxilla. He is an MFA candidate in poetry at Antioch University. More of his writing can be found at Peyote Soliloquies

Scott Ruescher teaches English part-time in the Boston University Prison Education Program, coordinates the Arts in Education program at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and does volunteer work for bilingual Spanish-English schools in Cambridge and Central America. Sidewalk Tectonics, his 2009 chapbook from Pudding House Publications, takes the reader on a road-trip from Lincoln's birthplace in Hodgenville, Kentucky, to the site of Martin Luther King's assassination in Memphis.

Rebecca Schumejda is working on a collection that loosely and playfully mimics the format of the U.S. Constitution. Most recently her work has or will appear in print or online at Breadcrumb Scabs, The Smoking Poet, Stirring, Home Planet News, The New York Quarterly, Red Fez and Right Hand Pointing. Her full length collection Falling Forward was published by sunnyoutside press last year. For more information, check out her website: www.rebeccaschumejda.com

Nancy Scott is the current managing editor of U.S.1 Worksheets, the journal of the U.S.1 Poets’ Cooperative in New Jersey. She is the author of two books of poetry, Down to the Quick (2007) and One Stands Guard, One Sleeps (2009) both published by Plain View Press, and a chapbook, A Siege of Raptors (2010) published by Finishing Line Press. Nancy was a caseworker for the State of New Jersey for more than twenty years, working with homeless families, abused children and individuals with AIDS. Her writing is often informed by those experiences. Recently, her poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Cadeceus, Slant, and New York Quarterly, as well as online at Segue and Umbrella.

Emily Severance has had poems published in several magazines including Boston Literary Magazine, Defenestration, qarrtsiluni, and Sisyphus. She teaches elementary special education in New Mexico.

Samuel Smith originally hailed from Winston-Salem, NC, but now lives, works and writes in Denver, CO. He'd love it if poets sold millions of copies of their work and played stadium tours, but since that's not the planet he was born on he labors away in the exciting world of marketing by day and plies his craft in the evenings and on weekends, which never last long enough. His work has appeared in places like The New Virginia Review, Poet & Critic, The Cream City Review, storySouth and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. He is the executive editor and poetry editor for Scholars & Rogues, an online magazine of culture, arts, literature and politics.

Thomas R. Smith is a writer and teacher living in western Wisconsin. He is a Master Track instructor at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. His most recent poetry collections are WAKING BEFORE DAWN (Red Dragonfly Press) and KINNICKINNIC (Parallel Press). Another new book of poems, The Foot of the Rainbow, was recently published by Red Dragonfly Press. Visit his web site at www.ThomasRSmithpoet.com.

Joel Solonche is coauthor of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books). His work has been appearing in magazines, journals, and anthologies since the 1970s. He teaches at SUNY Orange in Middletown, New York.

Charles Springer is an award winning painter, an advertising director and an avid bicyclist. He writes from Pennsylvania. Charles is published in Apalachee Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, Cold Mountain Review, Faultline, Heliotrope and Licking River Review, among others. A new poem currently appears in Oak Bend Review. He is very proud of this, his first appearance in Pemmican.

Julia Stein is the author of What Were They Like?, her fifth book of poetry. She has also edited two books of poetry: Walking Through a River of Fire: 100 Years of Triangle Factory Fire Poetry and Every Day is an Act of Resistance: Selected Poems of Carol Tarlen. She studied medieval Islamic history at UC Berkeley and UCLA. From the feminist and Holocaust poetry work of her first book Under the Ladder to Heaven (1984) to her poetry about the Central American Wars in the 1980s in her second book Desert Soldiers (1992) to the love poems and poems about teaching in SouthCentral during the 1992 troubles in Walker Woman (2004), Stein’s poetry ranges from love lyric to explorations of war,. peace, and work. Her work has been published in Germany, Ireland, France, and England.

Theresa Swanson works as a legal secretary in Omaha, Nebraska. Having raised her three children, she is pursuing a master's degree in writing and English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She lives, proudly, in the same working class neighborhood in South Omaha where she grew up.

Tobin Terry is an Instructor of English at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. He is the recipient of the 2009 Sam Ella Dukes Memorial Promising Fiction Writer Award. His work has appeared in The Akros Review, and YACK, and his prose poems, "The Consequences of Containment," "Grand Opening: The Largest Assembly Facility in the World, 1966," and "Affair in Boiler Room 6, Dearborn, Michigan" have appeared in Pemmican.

James Valvis lives in Washington State with his wife, daughter, and cat. His poems or stories have recently appeared in Arts & Letters, Atlanta Review, Crab Creek Review, Hanging Loose, LA Review, Nimrod, Pank, Rattle, River Styx, and is forthcoming in Daily Science Fiction, Fractured West, Kill Author, Midwest Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Night Train, Pinyon, Sierra Nevada Review, Verdad, and many others. In addition to being a multiple Pushcart and Best of the Web nominee, a poetry collection, How to Say Goodbye, is due in 2011.

Margaret Walther is a retired librarian from the Denver metro area and a past president of Columbine Poets, an organization to promote poetry in Colorado. She has been a guest editor for Buffalo Bones, and has poems published or forthcoming in many journals, including Connecticut Review, anderbo.com, Quarterly West, Naugatuck River Review, Fugue, The Anemone Sidecar, Chickenpinata, The Smoking Poet, Barrier Islands Review, Gone Lawn, Willow Review, A cappella Zoo, Pirene’s Fountain, Tattoo Highway and Nimrod. She won the Many Mountains Moving 2009 Poetry Contest. Two of her poems published in the online journal In Posse Review in 2010 were selected by Web del Sol for its e-SCENE best of the Literary Journals.

Rob Whitbeck is a farmer and timber thinner living in eastern Oregon. A full-length collection, Oregon Sojourn, is available from Pygmy Forest Press. A second collection, The Taproot Confessions, also from Pygmy Forest Press, was released in the summer of 2003.

Kelley White has returned to New Hampshire to work at a rural health center. Her poems have been widely published, in journals including Exquisite Corpse, Rattle and the Journal of the American Medical Association and in chapbooks and books, most recently TOXIC ENVIRONMENT (Boston Poet Press) and TWO BIRDS IN FLAME, poems related to the Shakers in New Hampshire (Beech River Books). She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant.

Buff Whitman-Bradley, a long-time peace and social justice activist. He has been a member of the Courage to Resist (www.couragetoresist.org) organizing collective, was the originator and producer of the Courage to Resist Audio Project, and co-editor, with Sarah Lazare and Cynthia Whitman-Bradley, of the new book based on Audio Project interviews, About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War (PM Press, 2011). He is also a member ¡Presente! a non-violent direct action affinity group actively opposing war and empire. His poems have appeared in many print and online journals and he has written two books of poetry, b. eagle, poet and The Honey Philosophies. He has co-produced/directed two documentary films, Por Que Venimos with the MIRC Film Collective, and with his partner Cynthia, an award-winning documentary about visitors to death row, Outside In.

Marilyn Zuckerman has published four books of poetry: Personal Effects (Alice James Books, Cambridge, 1976), Monday Morning Movie (Street Editions, N.Y, 1981), Poems of the Sixth Decade (Garden Street Press, 1993), and from Cedar Hill Publications,
Amerika/America, 2002, as well as a chapbook from The Greatest Hits series, Pudding House Publications, 2001. Her many poem publications include magazines such as New York Quarterly, The Little Magazine, Nimrod, Pig Iron, Mystic River Review and Pemmican (last two online) She has also received a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award and an Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. Her latest book, recently out from Red Dragonfly Press, is In The Ninth Decade.