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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.

It’s the city of the FUTURE!

By Jennifer on May 9, 2009

I have no idea what the city of the future will look like, but I hope Mitchell Joachim is going to be part of the planning team.  If the name sounds familiar, he appeared on the Colbert Report last week, carrying pictures of future tree houses and people movers shaped like sea life:

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What does it have to do with poetry?  Everything or nothing, I suppose.  I’m fascinated by poets who produce work under the (specific) influence of their environment.  It’s impossible to picture someone like Auden without the influence of the industrial structures of English coalworks.  Who knows which strange machines and structures will become commonplace, working their way into the world of letters without much notice?

0 comments // design, environment, futurism

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