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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.

Sign of the Apocalypse: Poetry discussed on late-night TV.

So, for anyone who missed this, Craig Ferguson and Stephen Fry got together for a special audience-less taping of Ferguson’s show– mock at will, but I so rarely watch any late-night, and Ferguson is the only late-night host I actually enjoy these days– and they managed to talk about Robert Graves, Twitter, substance abuse, Emma Thompson’s huge crush on Hugh Laurie, tattoos, W.H. Auden and Lady Gaga.

Dana Stevens discusses the show at Slate’s Brow Beat– the link in her post goes to two clips of the episode hosted at CBS.com. Here’s the CBS clip of the show:

The full interview is also available (in 6 sections) at this YouTube account.

If you enjoy Fry’s sort of humor, he wrote a stupendously clever book on formal poetry:

Enjoy!

“Ode to My Sharona” by Sherman Alexie

Read the poem for yourself.

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