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.
John C. Abell, bureau chief for Wired.com, runs down the scammy subscription practices of print magazines.
I made the mistake of picking up a magazine in Barnes & Noble over the weekend, showering both my feet and the floor in subscription cards. Do people actually mail those silly things in?
Laura Miner muses on the evolution of the magazine and the development of Pictory, her excellent new site for multi-author photo essays.
It’s interesting to think about Pictory in the context of a magazine, because, while some people will call it an online magazine, in reality it is something else entirely — something new that we don’t have a word for yet. Innovative sites that bill themselves as online lit journals have the same problem. They’re not journals at all — and the use of old labels muddies our thinking.
The Monocle Review’s 2nd Edition includes a report on a long-standing Beirut bookshop struggling to survive amidst political instability and changing tastes.
The review is a new video production from Monocle Magazine, a fantastic (and exquisitely beautiful) source for international news on business, culture, and design. Each issue is as thick as a book and includes an exclusive manga series. I read it religiously, although I suspect I fall short of its target demographic by about $75,000 per year.