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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.

The Casual Comedy

By Ashley on Oct 30, 2008

A first-edition copy of W. B. Yeat’s “Easter 1916″ sold for 7,100 euros ($9,600 dollars) according to an article published by the BBC. Yeats handed out 25 copies of the poem originally, but 22 are hiding out somewhere mysterious. Check your attic?

Taken from the National Gallery of Ireland, the manuscripts displayed all relate to poems informed by the Easter Rising
Taken from the National Gallery of Ireland, the manuscripts displayed are written by W. B. Yeats and are informed by the Easter Rising

A Wikipedia Fun Fact about the poem: “The date of the Easter Rising can be seen in the structure of the poem: there are 16 lines (for 1916) in the first and third stanzas, 24 lines (for April 24) in the second and fourth stanzas, and four stanzas in total.” I think Yeats may have been more neurotic about numbers than I am. That’s saying something.

Comments off. // first editions, w.b. yeats

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