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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.

Poets & Writers & Twitter

By Johnathon Williams on May 12, 2009

Collin Kelly rounds up some tweeting poets, and provides a handy link to Mashable’s favorite 100 literary types who are active on Twitter.

Twitter seems perfect for poetry in so many ways — the 140-character limit creates a form in and of itself — but I’ve yet to see anyone make full use of it. (What “full use” means here is anyone’s guess. Perhaps I’ll know it when I see it?) I’m surprised we haven’t seen a poetry-related, Twitter-based web app yet — something in the vein of Foamee or Favrd. I have a few notebook pages of app ideas, but none that I haven’t been able to talk myself out of.

Also Twitter-related: Dan Baum just finished tweeting the story of his firing from The New Yorker. It’s impossible to link to a sequence of tweets, but the story starts here and ends here.

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