Tom Sterner

Poet, Colorado Tom {WordWulf} Sterner, lives in Redding, California and Arvada, Colorado. He has been published in magazines and on the internet, include Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, The Storyteller, and Flashquake. He is the winner of the Marija...

Thomas Wertman

Thomas is filling in for Susan Lindauer as a monthly columnist in week 2 of each month. Thomas Wertman is the Director of Ohio MUFON Mutual UFO Network http://www.mufonohio.com/mufono/index.html

Debra Sweet

Debra Sweet is the Director of World Can’t Wait, initiated in 2005 to “drive out the Bush regime” by repudiating its program, forcing it from office through a mass, independent movement and reversing the direction it had launched.  Based in New York City, she leads...

Doug Draime

Poet, California Doug Draime has been a presence in the ‘underground’ and independent press since 1968. He was awarded small PEN grants in 1987 and 1991 and has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes in the last few years. He lives in the southern...

Jack Cohen-Joppa

Co-editor of The Nuclear Resister http://www.nukeresister.org/ Since 1980, the Nuclear Resister has provided comprehensive reporting on arrests for anti-nuclear civil resistance in the United States, with an emphasis on providing support for the women and men jailed...

Sam Smith

Journalist, Washington, D.C., Maine Sam Smith (born 1937) is an American journalist and political activist who was an early pioneer in alternative media. He was also involved in the establishment of the Green Party of the United States....

Rex Butters

Poet, Southern California Since 1976, longtime SoCal resident Rex Butters has published journalistic writings on sites and in magazines including BAM, Rapport, All About Jazz, Folk Works, the LA Free Press, and the Free Venice Beachhead. His poetry has appeared for...

Phil Hey

English professor, retired, Briar Cliff College, Sioux City, Iowa PHIL HEY — English professor, refused induction to the draft in 1967 — and he’s still here http://mpalecek.blogspot.com/2009/07/phil-hey-english-professor-refused.html He refused his induction...

Peter B. Collins

Radio show host Peter B. Collins is burdened with too many opinions.  He follows news and politics to a degree that one friend calls “borderline obsessive”and the Peter B. Collins Show is his therapy.  From San Francisco, he brings you his views and...

Melissa “Misty” Rowan

Minneapolis, poet, activist RING RING POEM EIGHT, 24th and Dupont Ave S, Minneapolis, MN; May 28-31 May 29, 2013 by Cole 24th and Dupont Ave S, Minneapolis, MN Misty Rowan speaks faster than most humans I know, and is one of two poets I know whose main reason for...

Marc Beaudin

Marc Beaudin is an award-winning poet, theatre artist and bookseller living in the writer’s haven of Livingston, Montana, dubbed “America’s finest open air asylum” for multiple reasons. His work has been anthologized in Poems Across the Big Sky Volume II, An Elk River...

Leigh Herrick

Poet, Minneapolis http://leighherrick.com/ I have been writing since I was 10 years old, and tapping my foot as far back as I can remember.  It seems natural then that I have followed the rhythmic path in life.  A member of Phi Beta Kappa, I hold degrees in English...

Alice Cherbonnier

Editor of The Baltimore Chronicle ALICE CHERBONNIER — rarely spotted, some think it’s merely a myth, this is what real journalism looks like http://mpalecek.blogspot.com/2009/06/alice-cherbonnier-rarely-spotted-this.html