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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.

And a Dash of Tony Chachere’s

By Ash on Jun 1, 2009

This week’s Unstressed guest blogger is Alison Pelegrin. Pelegrin’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac.  She is the author of  The Zydeco Tablets, Squeezers, Voodoo Lips, and Dancing with the One-Armed Man.  Her book, Big Muddy River of Stars, won the 2007 Akron Poetry Prize.  A broadside of her poem “In Livingston Parish, Dreaming of Li Po” is being released this week from Broadsided Press.  A recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, she currently teaches English at Southeastern Louisiana University and lives in Covington, Louisiana, with her husband and two sons.

Read her poem, “The Last Holdout,” here.

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