African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active on the creative writing & Spoken Word tips since the early 1990s. In the collection of badass poetry released on POOR press in 2019 called Skeletal Black: Poems from Beneath the Poverty Line, Dee tells the story of poverty, arson, displacement and removal us poor people face all the time, through all the evil means that the exploitative inhuman system called capitalism unfolds. Dee is also the author of 3 books [Boneyard, Unwritten Law, and STORMWATER all from POOR Press] and 16 anthology appearances [including Poets 11: 2014, Feather Floating on the Water, Rise, Your Golden Sun Still Shines, The City Is Already Speaking, What is Love and the newest from Vagabond Books, Extreme] under his figurative belt so far. Dee Allen is a member of the Po Poets Project of POOR Magazine and a founding member and resident of Homefulness - a homeless, landless peoples solution to homelessness.

Indigenous Purepecha/Raza artist, writer, poverty skola, danzante,  media producer, teacher and poet from Michoacan, Mexico. Co–teacher and member of the Poetas POBRES/Po Poets Project at Prensa POBRE (POOR Magazine), In/migrant & Indigenous and revolutionary artist & scholar in residence at the Race, Poverty Media Justice Institute, co-founder of Homefulness and staff writer for Voces de inmigrantes en resistencia and community Activist. He is the co-host of Po Peoples Radio on PNNKEXU 96.1fm and creator and host of bilingual radio Voces DE Inmigrantes en resistencia for PNNKEXU. Muteado is an actor, director and writer of several plays with Teatro de los pobres at POOR Magazine and with People of Color Action Theatre (POCAT) "We did not cross the border, the border crossed us" Raised in the East Side of Oakland by his single mother, born in Michoacan made in Oakland in a beautiful community of Black and Brown folks, land of the Homicides and Sideshows. "My pen is my gun, my words are my bullets", Done work with Color Ink, Theater of the Oppress, Oakland Unified School District, Unity Concepts, La Carpa del Feo....Muteado is a co-author of How to NOT Call PoLice Ever, and the Homefulness HandBook on Poorpress and His most recent book is Chimalli: Creando Arte Ceremonial / Creating Ceremonial Art available at poorpress.net 

Aunti Frances Moore is a Black disabled activist, elder, Black Panther and community leader from North Oakland/South Berkeley. She grew up in North Berkeley and has dedicated most of her time and care to her community. Aunti Frances used music for healing purposes while going through transition at a young age. She was honored to work alongside with courageous geniuses of the revolutions as a member of the Black Panthers. She continues on with the legacy of the Black Panther party using food as an organizing tool to fight against gentrification and displacement. In her work, she has touched the lives of many community members, housed and houseless, through her Self-help Hunger Program. She has helped transform Driver Plaza from a tiny patch of grass and cement to a fruiting edible garden and community hub. She is vital to the life of the neighborhood and is a memory-keeper and storyteller who preserves our history even as the city faces so many rapid changes. Frances is a brilliant actor and writer and has starred in Teatro de los Pobres productions since 2016. She is a founding member of Homefulness and the co-author of How to Not Call the PoLice ever and the Making of Aunti Volume 1 & 11 on poorpress.net 

tiny (lisa) gray-garcia aka “PovertySkola” is a formerly unhoused, incarcerated, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, poet, visionary, teacher and single mama of Tiburcio, daughter of a houseless, disabled mama Dee, and the co-founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. With her Mama Dee- she co-founded Escuela de la gente/PeopleSkool- a poor and indigenous people-led skool, as well as several cultural and theatre projects such as the Po Poets Project/Poetas POBREs Proyecto (co-founded with Leroy Moore), welfareQUEENs, the Theatre of the POOR/Teatro de los pobres, and Hotel Voices. In 2011 she co-launched The Homefulness Project - a landless peoples, self-determined land liberation movement in the Ohlone/Lisjan/Huchuin territory known as Deep East Oakland, the Bank of ComeUnity Reparations  and co-founded a liberation school for children, Deecolonize Academy and is the creator of a PoemCast from a poverty skola- a podcast series and as well is the co-host of Po Peoples Radio News Hour on PNNKEXU 96.1fm and bi-weekly on KPFA.

Tiny has taught Poverty Scholarship, the criminalization of poverty and poor people led liberation, poetry and media at universities and encampments across Mama Earth including Columbia and UC Berkeley. She has  authored several essays for The SF Bay View Newspaper, 48 Hills and POOR Magazine as well as books including  Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America, co-editor of A Decolonizers Guide to A Humble Revolution, Born & Raised in Frisco and co-author of Poverty ScholarShip - Poor People Theory, Arts, words and Tears Across Mama Earth , How to Not Call PoLice Ever, Po Peoples Survival Guide Through Covid 19 and the Virus of Poverty and the Homefulness Handbook- How to Build a Homeless, Landless peoples solution to homelessness. She also authored two bi-lingual childrens books: The Hardworker/El Trabajado Fuerte and When Mama and Me Lived Outside - one families journey thru homelessness (which has become an award winning animated short movie of the same name) and  The Sidewalk Motel - poems and Poshunary from a poverty skola which was released in 2022. In 2021 tiny returned to playwriting with the new play Crushing Wheelchairs, launched with workshops with fellow houseless and formerly houseless, disabled elders and youth soon to be on stage at The Lab and Lowe Bottom Playas and is concurrenty working on her next play Broken - the MamaLogues- based on the whispers and prayers, and terrifying trauma of her houseless, disabled Mama and auntis who suffered forced sterilization, homelessness, incarceration, eviction and more violence than any human could withstand