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.
Deborah Ager, publisher of 32 Poems, asks how print journals can survive given production costs and the strain of the recession, and borrows a few answers from Charles Jensen.
Something I’d like to see, from Deborah or any publisher of a print journal, is more specifics on the economics of print. How much, for instance, does it cost to print and distribute an issue of 32 Poems?