Jack McCarthy (born May 23, 1939 in Massachusetts) is an American writer and slam poet living in the state of Washington, who began writing in the 1960s, however, did not begin performing his works for audiences until the 1990s. It was then that he was introduced to slam poetry at the Cantab Lounge in Boston, Massachusetts, after intending to get his daughter interested in the artform.

Michael Matthew McGee, more commonly known as Mighty Mike McGee, (born January 12, 1976) is an American slam poet. Born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, McGee is the oldest of 8 children from several marriages. He has spent most of his life in and around San Jose, California where he started his career in spoken word, poetry slam and performance poetry in 1998. He is a contemporary of Jack McCarthy and Buddy Wakefield.

John Giorno (born 1936) is an American poet and performance artist. He founded the artist collective Giorno Poetry Systems and coined its mass communication experiment "Dial-A-Poem". He became prominent as the subject of Andy Warhol's film "Sleep". He is also an AIDS activist and fundraiser.

Hedwig Gorski (born Trenton, New Jersey, July 18 1949) is an American performance poet and an avant-garde artist. She describes her ethnic background as first-generation Polish-American, a distinct cultural group that is among what she calls the "invisible European minorities" in the United States.

Bob Cobbing (July 30, 1920 - September 29, 2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival.

Joolz Denby (9th April 1955) (previously more widely known simply as Joolz) is a poet and novelist and artist based out of Bradford, UK. Initially, known simply as Joolz, Denby first gained recognition for herself as a touring "punk" performance poet one of the first to gain recognition in modern times, and one of the only women to do so, She now does not consider herself a 'performance poet' as the style has changed radically since she began performing, …

Gerard McKeown (born 1980) is a writer from Ballymena, Northern Ireland. A graduate of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, he is best known for his performance poetry, which draws as much from disciplines such as stand up comedy and bardic story telling as it does poetry. He has performed as a support act for other writers such as Stewart Home and John Cooper Clarke. He is the current holder of the Belfast Performance Poetry Cup.

Sandra Alland is an Edinburgh-based Canadian writer, multimedia artist, bookseller, micropress publisher and activist. She has published two full-length collections of poetry, "Proof of a Tongue" and "Blissful Times". Her writing has also been published in many anthologies including, "The State of the Arts: Culture in Toronto" (Coach House Books), "radiant danse uv being: A Poetic Portrait of bill bissett" (blewointment), …

Maggie O'Sullivan (born 1951) is a British poet, performer and visual artist associated with the British Poetry Revival. O'Sullivan was born in Lincoln, England of Irish immigrant parents. She moved to London in 1971 and worked for the BBC until 1988. Her early work appeared in magazines such as Angel Exhaust. She now lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. O'Sullivan's work is influenced by Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Beuys, Jerome Rothenberg, Bob Cobbing and Basil Bunting.

Bill Griffiths (born 1948) is a poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival. Griffiths was born in Middlesex. As a teenager, he became a Hells Angel, and his experiences with bikers provided material for many of his early poems. From 1971, these poems were published in "Poetry Review", under the editorship of Eric Mottram, and by Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum.

Pi O or П O is an Australian, working class, anarchist, poet of Greek origin. Came to Australia with his family to Bonegilla migrant camp around 1954 from where they escaped to Fitzroy. He started writing poetry in 1970 when he heard Johnny Cash reciting (religious) poetry while tunning up his guitar and thought he could do better. His work ranges from standup-type rants to 'conceptual' page poetry, …

Susan McMaster (born 1950) is a Canadian poet, literary editor, and spoken word performer who lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Susan has published poetry books, wordmusic, performance poetry recordings, and scripts; edited collections and series; founded "Vernissage", the magazine of the National Gallery of Canada, and the national feminist magazine "Branching Out" (1973-); and was an original member of the intermedia group First Draft, (1981-), …

Adrian Arancibia is a poet, writer, educator and, along with Adolfo Guzman-Lopez and Miguel-Angel Soria, a founding veteran of the seminal Chicano spoken-word collective the Taco Shop Poets. Adrian Arancibia was born in Iquique, Chile in 1971. Arancibia is the co-editor of the "Taco Shop Poets Anthology: Chorizo Tonguefire" and currently writes for the San Diego Union Tribune and for national magazines like The Green Magazine.

Stanley F. Lombardo (b. 1943) is an American professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. He is best known for his translations of the "Iliad", the "Odyssey", and the "Aeneid" (published by the Hackett Publishing Company and notable for their anachronistic cover artwork). The style of his translations is a more vernacular one, …

W. Joe Hoppe (born Dec. 24, 1961, in Ypsilanti, Michigan) is an American poet, short story writer and filmmaker who was at the forefront of the performance poetry scene in Austin, Texas. He grew up in Jackson, Michigan, where he worked as a janitor in a tool & die shop and as a gas station attendant. He received a degree in communications from the University of Michigan in 1984 then headed to Minneapolis to pay off his debt to society by working in shelters.

Mario Yedidia (b. November 5, 1984 in San Francisco) is an American film actor. Yedidia was born in San Francisco to an Israeli Jewish father and a Colombian mother; he has family in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. Yedidia found fame through a starring role in the film "Warriors of Virtue", after working under the direction of Francis Ford Coppola on the movie "Jack". He went on to feature in the Disney Channel movie "Under Wraps".