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.
From Adam Tessier comes Our Daily Sonnet, a cool new project that promises to post a daily video reading of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, each by a different reader. Adam describes it thus:
The project came out of a terrible cold I had a week ago — I was home sick from work and my eyes were bothering me and rather than read the sonnets as I was planning to do all day as part of my homework for Bennington I thought I’d listen to them on Youtube or something first, before going to the text when I felt better — surely there must be videos of people reading these poems out there. There are a few, but I realized quickly, not nearly enough.
Adam’s posted six so far, and he’s looking for more. If you’d like to submit a video, email ourdailysonnet [at] gmail [dot] com.
Adam’s poem “Jacob’s Dream” appeared on Linebreak on Nov. 11.
Recently, it was brought to my attention that “there’s a certain kind of NPR nerd.” Not only did my fiance and I get excited that there was going to be an “On Point” and “Planet Money” crossover, the written promo for the show was “On Point and Planet Money, together at last!” At last, indeed! We were holding our breath! They knew we would be excited!
“Planet Money” generally has little to do with poetry or design, unless you consider the intricately designed failures of our economy to be poetic, but I’m pretty sure it’s covered under the “culture” banner. The “Planet Money” folks produced (at least) two wrenching shows for “This American Life“ on the financial crisis: “The Giant Pool of Money” and “Bad Bank.” They’re so good, they even find a way to make you feel bad for the guy who used to make a big show of ordering Cristal at the club before everything came tumbling down.