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A weblog from the editors of Linebreak

The regulars

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.

Ashley Anna McHugh is a third-year MFA student at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Measure, DIAGRAM and Memorious as well as other publications.

Johnathon Williams's poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2009, the Pebble Lake Review, and Unsplendid. He lives in Fayetteville, AR, with his wife and daughters.

A sonnet a day

From Adam Tessier comes Our Daily Sonnet, a cool new project that promises to post a daily video reading of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, each by a different reader. Adam describes it thus:

The project came out of a terrible cold I had a week ago — I was home sick from work and my eyes were bothering me and rather than read the sonnets as I was planning to do all day as part of my homework for Bennington I thought I’d listen to them on Youtube or something first, before going to the text when I felt better — surely there must be videos of people reading these poems out there. There are a few, but I realized quickly, not nearly enough.

Adam’s posted six so far, and he’s looking for more. If you’d like to submit a video, emailĀ ourdailysonnet [at] gmail [dot] com.

Adam’s poem “Jacob’s Dream” appeared on Linebreak on Nov. 11.

via YouTube – Sonnet 5.

Guinzio in Focus at Dear Camera

Carolyn Guinzio is the featured poet in the current issue of Dear Camera.

But since you’re here, you may as well enjoy her poems that we’ve published here and here.

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