Photos from the Stanford reading Friday night

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Ash Bowen's poetry has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Blackbird, and Black Warrior Review, among other publications. He lives and works in Texarkana, AR.

Jennifer Jabaily's poetry has appeared in Mannequin Envy and Fickle Muses. She's a second-year MFA student at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

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Photos from the Stanford reading Friday night

By Johnathon Williams on Oct 23, 2008

These photographs from the opening reading at the Frank Stanford Festival aren’t doing any good sitting on my hard drive, so here they are in all their glory. The reading offered a fantastic introduction to sixteen or seventeen different small press poets, most of whom were unfamiliar to me. Being exposed to so many new voices in a single night was both overwhelming and exhilarating. Congrats and thanks to Matt and Katy at Cannibal Books, who put the festival together.

Oh, and a special thanks to Abraham Smith, Maureen Alsop, Tony Tost, Adam Clay, and Ralph Adamo for recording poems for future updates of Linebreak. Abraham’s reading of Emma Bolden’s Testimony was posted on Tuesday.

Any omissions or inaccuracies in the photo captions should be posted to editors@linebreak.org.