Unstressed

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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.

“New Bad Poems Daily”

Gmail just advertised this link to me: “New Bad Poems Daily – Be the first to read some of the worst poems ever written“.

I’m not sure what that says about my inbox. Is it meant to be a challenge? Is it a sad, sad assessment of my work?  (I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!)

Regardless, it seemed like the kind of thing Linebreak readers would appreciate. But click at your own risk: Links sometimes take you places you never thought  you’d go

Then again, while ESPN might be off course, I’m assuming that most of you are readers of Linebreak and, therefore, could be -coincidentally or consequently – on first-name basis with Irish whiskey-based drinks.

Call it even?

Because you were sixteen years old, too

Craigslist needs your bad poems.  Craigslist needs your “Why doesn’t the quarterback/head cheerleader/quarterback and head cheerleader know my name?” poems.  Your “love” rhymes with “dove” poems.  Your “my anger is like a…” poems.

If you didn’t burn them or bury them in a chest on the beach, then bury the map to the chest on another part of the beach, may they find a home where the awkward turtle swims.

This was going to be an intellectual tour de force

However, my coffee has not kicked in yet.  You get cartoons instead!

The picture should link back to its home, Toothpaste For Dinner.  If not, this was just another failed technological experiment– but you got some really awful open mic flashbacks out of the deal, right?  Here’s the link anyway: Toothpaste For Dinner.  Everybody wins!

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