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.
Billy Mills’s Guardian column from last week provides an introductory selection of ars poeticas, though sadly it’s a bit late at this point to participate in his challenge to write and share one of your own.
One of my favorite examples of the genre is Ashley Capps’s “Ars Poetica,” available in this PDF excerpt of her first book, Mistaking the Sea For Green Fields.