Zbigniew Herbert
Zbigniew Herbert was born in Lvov, then part of Poland, in 1924, and died in Warsaw in 1998.
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Jana Prikryl
Jana Prikryl is the author of the poetry collections No Matter and The After Party. She is a senior editor at The New York Review of Books.
Ingrid Jonker
Ingrid Jonker (1933-1965) was a South African poet.
Terry Bisson
Terry Bisson is a science fiction writer who lives in Oakland, California. His most recent novel is Any Day Now.
Kade Crockford
Kade Crockford is director of the Technology for Liberty project at the ACLU of Massachusetts, where she edits and writes the Privacy Matters blog.
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is a professor (emeritus) at MIT. He is the author of many books and articles on international affairs and social and political issues, including 9/11, and a long-time participant in activist movements.
Chase Madar
Chase Madar is a former civil rights lawyer and the author of The Passion of [Chelsea] Manning: The Story behind the WikiLeaks Whistleblower.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a poet, playwright, publisher, and activist who helped to spark the San Francisco literary renaissance of the 1950s.
Richard Hofstadter
Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970) was an American historian. His many works include The Age of Reform,Anti-Intellectualism, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and The American Political Tradition.
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra lives in Dehradun, India. His Collected Poems from Gira-mondo was published in 2016.
Owen Davis
Owen Davis writes about education, money, and the seamy confluence of the two. He lives in Brooklyn.
Michael Ruby
Michael Ruby is the author of American Songbook and the coeditor of Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer.