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John Geyman

John Geyman is Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and author of Falling Through the Safety Net. He was founding editor of the Journal of Family Practice.

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Jill Quadagno

Jill Quadagno, Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar in Social Gerontology and Professor of Sociology at Florida State University, is author of One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance.

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Dara Wier

Dara Wier is author of You Good thing, Hat on a Pond, Voyages in English, and Reverse Respect.

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Peter Richards

Peter Richards is the author, most recently, of Helsinki. His poems have appeared in Agni, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, The Yale Review, and other journals. Richards is the recipient of several poetry awards and has taught at Harvard University, Tufts University, Museum School of Fine Arts, and University of Montana-Missoula.

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Thylias Moss

Thylias Moss’s most recent collection, Wannabe Hoochie Mama Gallery of Realities’ Red Dress Code: New and Selected Poems, will be published this fall by Persea. Her eight previous books of poetry include Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and Slave Moth, named Best Poetry Book of 2004 by Black Issues Book Review. She is is Professor Emerita in the departments of English and Art & Design at the University of Michigan and lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan. A video piece based on “Wannabe Hoochie Mama Gallery of Realities’ Red Dress Code” can be found here.

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Ernest Hilbert

Ernest Hilbert is the editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review, and his poems have appeared in The New Republic, The American Scholar, and Fence.

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Robley Evans

Robley Evans lives in Connecticut.

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C. Durning Carroll

C. Durning Carroll's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Brooklyn Review, Folio, and Tarpaulin Sky.

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Aleš Debeljak

Aleš Debeljak is a Slovenian poet, cultural critic, and translator. His most recent poetry books in English are The City and the Child and Dictionary of Silence.

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Susan M. Schultz

Susan M. Schultz is a professor of English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her most recent books are And Then Something Happened and A Poetics of Impassse in Modern and Contemporary Poetry.

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Ken Parille

Ken Parille is associate professor of English at East Carolina University.

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Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her latest book is Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.

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F. Daniel Rzicznek

F. Daniel Rzicznek teaches English at Bowling Green State University, where he also serves as the poetry editor for Mid-American Review. His chapbook of prose poems, Cloud Tablets, recently won the 2004 Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Competition.

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Larissa Szporluk

Larissa Szporluk is the author of Dark Sky Question; Isolato; The Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind; and the forthcoming Embryos and Idiots. She is an associate professor of English at Bowling Green State University and a recent recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant.

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Adam Benforado

Adam Benforado is Frank Knox Fellow at Cambridge University.

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Jon D. Hanson

Jon D. Hanson is a professor at Harvard Law School.

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Eliot Weinberger

Eliot Weinberger is the author of What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles.

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Christopher Preble

Christopher Preble is the director of foreign-policy studies at the Cato Institute. He is the author of John F. Kennedy and the Missle Gap.

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Brian Katulis

Brian Katulis is the director of democracy and public diplomacy on the national-security team at the Center for American Progress.

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Lawrence Korb

Lawrence Korb is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

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Randall Forsberg

Randall Forsberg (1943–2007) launched the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. She was the executive director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies in Cambridge.

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Russell D. Feingold

Russell Feingold served as U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1993-2011.

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Vivek Chibber

Vivek Chibber is associate professor of sociology at New York University.

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Joseph R. Biden

Joseph R. Biden Jr., former U.S. Senator from Delaware, is President of the United States.

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