Albert Vetere Lannon is a Tucson performance poet, retired labor educator and former union official. He lives in the Picture Rocks area with his partner, Kaitlin Meadows.

Ron Cipriani is the producer of A Poet's Moment, a community involvement project, and a DJ at KXCI radio. Poets who want to read their work on the radio can contact him at poet@kxci.org.  He's been in the ceramic industry for the last 18 years and the bicycle business for 15 years before that. Ron has lived in Tucson since 1968.

Otherwise known as "The FunKtional Adix", Andre Gavino (affectionately dubbed "FunK") can boast of a proud lineage: Filipino and Irish, but his presence is fully in the here and now. FunK is a powerful stage performer who has been coming up in the industry for nearly a decade, crafting his brand of musical spoken word even as he did double-duty as cameraman and film producer for projects such as his weekly Cable Access show “The FunKtional Adix Showcase.” As an educator FunK has worked w/ people of all ages helping them find their own voice and the confidence to present it. Selected as the Artist in Residence for The Osborne Middle School District in 2005, he used his technical skills in Video Production to encourage and expose young minds to the world of performance poetry. Also, in 2005 was his performance-oriented workshop for the University of Arizona, where he worked w/ the University's Poetry Center to once again blend his technical and artistic skills to educate and encourage other artists. www.thefunktionaladix.com

David Mitchell a literary activist, a familiar figure on the Tucson Poetry scene, is a founding member of Paris Moves, a spoken word performance troupe, and the Tucson Poetry Crawl. David writes with a keen eye for politics, the erotic and the supernatural. His prize winning poetry has been published locally and nationally.

Born and raised in California, Dov Diamond moved to Arizona to attend the University of Arizona and study Fine Arts and Creative Writing. Writing for the past ten years, he has performed at multiple featured readings in Tucson. In 2000, he started the weekly spoken word / poetry open-mic at Hazy Dayz Lounge - Café in Tucson

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