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.
approach a microphone.
Linebreak is always looking for vocal talents to match the poetic talents we publish. If you’re interested in putting your voice down on some .mp3 or .wav virtual wax, let us know.
Fine print: You must have a way of recording your voice. Johnathon, our technical adviser/editor/all-things-to-all-people can assist you if you’re in need of technical help, though.
Ash
Linebreak Talent Scout
We didn’t make much of it at the time, what with the inauguration and all, but Tuesday was Linebreak’s first anniversary. Since our launch on Jan. 22, 2008, we’ve published a single poem each week. This week, M.C. Allan’s “Rube Goldberg Draws the Human Heart” became our 53rd poem. We’d like to thank all of our contributors, especially those who took a chance on us when all we had was a concept and a legal pad with a sketch of our design. Linebreak is what it is because so many poets have been so generous with their talents — both written and recorded — and we appreciate that generosity more than we can say.
Of course, there’d be little point to any of this without our audience. From all of us here at Linebreak, thanks for reading and listening. Here’s to another year.
Poets Geoff Brock and A.E. Stallings get their formal on at Able Muse. He also gives us a plug:
“my three favorite new [literary magazines] are linebreak.org (which does interesting things with audio—I love Leon Stokesbury’s reading of Seth Abramson’s “Cash at Folsom”), memorious.org (which is well edited and exquisitely designed), and unsplendid.org . . .”
Read the rest here at www.ablemuse.com/v6/featured-poet/geoffrey-brock
Brent Goodman elaborates on the writing and real-life background of his poem “Evaporation,” which we published on Tuesday.
One of the things Brent mentions is that we requested a revision after reading the poem’s original submission. Revisions aren’t something we ask for very often — generally we either take a poem as submitted or not at all — but it worked out in this case. Brent’s second take on the poem won us over immediately.
Thanks to Lori Lamothe for the reading.
Despite our election day jitters, we managed to update Linebreak this morning. Thanks to Sandy Longhorn for the poem, and to Maureen Alsop for the recording.
Enjoy the diversion — then get down to your polling place and vote.
Thanks to Maureen Alsop for the poem, and to Adam Clay for the reading.
Submissions remain welcome at submissions@linebreak.org. Guidelines are available on the about page.