POETIC LABOR PROJECT

Greetings DEAR READERS:  Back in 2011, many of us here in Oakland experienced the most active sense of political possibility in our liv...

ROBERTO CONTRERAS (Santiago, Chile, 1975), is a writer, teacher, and editor. His work moves across different genres, he has published ficti...

JUAN CARLOS URTAZA (1982) is a Chilean writer. He lives at the 13th kilometer of the Route 7 (Carretera Austral, CH-7). He hangs out with s...

DANIELA ACOSTA , Journalist, graduated from the University of Chile. In 2010, she published the online version of the book of poems La otra...

JUAN PABLO PEREIRA (Santiago, Chile, 1978) is a Chilean poet, translator and poetry reviewer. --------------------------- I'm a poet...

JAIME PINOS (Santiago, Chile, 1970). Writer, editor, and producer. He has a degree in Literature from Universidad de Chile. He was the edit...

PABLO LANGLOIS is a Chilean visual artist.  For about 8 years, he’s been working on different devices dealing with the question “Is Art a jo...

PAUL EBENKAMP works at Saint Mary's College and co-curates/edits books of poetry and anthologies with Counterpoint Press. Before these g...

JEANINE WEBB is a poet and writer and works in San Diego teaching writing. Her immediately previous job was manual horticultural labor. He...

SANDRA SIMONDS is the author of four books of poems including The Glass Box (forthcoming, Saturnalia), The Sonnets (Bloof Books, forthcomi...

TED REES has worked as a legal researcher, model, barista, teaching assistant, music journalist, brand representative, camp counselor, radi...

KATY BOHINC' s first job was at Patterson's Fruit Farm in Cuyahoga County, Ohio at age 13.  She received $4.25 an hour because farm ...

CHEENA MARIE LO lives and works in Oakland. They have worked as an art curator, an ice cream scooper, a line cook, a workshop facilitator, ...

CATHERINE THEIS is a Provost Fellow at USC. She is the author of The Fraud of Good Sleep (Salt Books, 2011). She’s been paid to slice turk...

RED TEES is a confused, wayward fellow. He enjoys drinking fine wine, listening to acid house, and eating Pop-Tarts. ------------------- ...

TRISH SPOTTS grew up in a small town. She never put her roots down. Daddy always kept moving, so she did too.  ------------------- 1099-M...

BRITTANY BILLMEYER-FINN is a poet living in Oakland. She has worked at various small retail businesses as a vintage, DIY & consignment ...