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.
This video mashup is the most disturbing and subtly brilliant thing I’ve seen in weeks. Amazing how much pathos is wrung from simple juxtaposition.
How long, do you suppose, before this kind of editing is acknowledged as a primary rather than secondary creative act?
Reading Radar is a new mashup that combines the best seller lists from The New York Times with reviews and sales data from Amazon. The result is a site that instantly places popular books in context. It is subtle and brilliant, and gives me an idea for two or three new poetry-related mashups.
Which is exactly what I need, don’t ya know — a few more ideas for web sites.
Update 5 p.m. This got me thinking about whether best seller information is even available for small press poetry books. Yea verily it is, from Small Press Distribution.
Update 5:08 p.m. You guys know what a mashup is, right?