Q&A with Mary Fontana
After reading Mary Fontana's poems ‘Astronaut’ and ‘Gharial,’ as well as learning about her fascinating background in Immunology, we simply had to learn more about her writing process. Julian Kanagy, our hard-working Editor-in-Chief and poetry fanatic, learns more about the origins of her poetry, as well as the life that inspires it.
Q&A with Tamara J. Madison
Kicking off The Wild Umbrella premiere of Tamara J. Madison's double feature with poems "Morning Glory", and "Kitchen 1969", read our interview between the poet and Editor-in-Chief, Julian Kanagy.
Q&A with Laurie Kuntz
Our poetry team is starting the new year by publishing two new poems by Laurie Kuntz, titled 'Gilded' and 'This Personal Eclipse'.
Laurie Kuntz’s books are: That Infinite Roar, Gyroscope Press, Talking Me Off The Roof, Kelsay Books, The Moon Over My Mother’s House, Finishing Line Press, Simple Gestures, Texas Review Press, Women at the Onsen, Blue Light Press, and Somewhere in the Telling, Mellen Press. Simple Gestures, won Texas Review’s Chapbook Contest, and Women at the Onsen won Blue Light Press’s Chapbook Contest. She’s been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and two Best of the Net Prizes. In 2024, she won a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been published in Gyroscope Review, Roanoke Review, Third Wednesday, One Art, Sheila Na Gig, Anti-Heroin Chic, and other journals. Happily retired, she lives in an endless summer state of mind. More at: https://lauriekuntz.myportfolio.com/home-1
Recently Claire Beaver - one of our poetry editors - talked with the writer about her inspirations and her poetry more broadly.
Q&A with Michael Henson
Q&A with Eleanor Keisman
Q&A with Maria Giesbrecht
Q&A with Kat Quinn
This week our poetry team is excited to feature two poems from American poet Kait Quinn, titled 'In the Garden of Girlhood' and 'On This Fresh Morning in the Broken World' (after Mary Oliver). Both those poems can be read at the poetry tab in our website above.
Q&A with Elizabeth S. Gunn
This week our poetry team is featuring two poems from American poet Elizabeth S. Gunn, titled 'Treatise on the Salivagant' and 'Histology'. The poems are part of our growing poetry offerings, which you can read here in full.
Elizabeth S. Gunn serves as the Dean of the School of Arts, Sciences, and Business at Nevada State University. She writes poetry and fiction in Henderson, Nevada, where she and her wife live with their three rescue pups in the endless Mojave Desert. Her website is http://www.elizabethsgunn.com/ and she's on X at @_DeanGunn.
Q&A with Shannon Lise
This week our poetry team is featuring a new poem by Quebec-based writer Shannon Lise, called 'How Shall I Defy You Who Wound Me in the Night?'. A poem after 'Postlude' by William Carlos Williams, our team loved Shannon's work for its rich layers and the question-based form.
Q&A with Oliver Smith
Q&A with Valentine Jones
This week our poetry team is thrilled to feature a new poem – 'MIRROR' – by Limerick-based writer Valentine Jones. The poem is here in its entirety.
Q&A with Arden Eli Hill
This week our poetry team is excited to feature "Polaroids", a new poem by Arden Eli Hill. The piece of work, with its vignette form, is unlike anything we've published so far at the Umbrella, and we're happy to showcase the work alongside our growing poetry section.
Q&A with Anne van Wijgerden
Our poetry team this week is featuring two new pieces by writer Ann van Wijgerden, titled 'Between the Tides' and 'The Dying Art of Letting Go'. Our team loved these works for their melody, their immense lyricism, and for their great range. Both poems are doing something very different from the other.
Q&A with Frederick Livingston
Our poetry team is pleased this week to feature a new poem from writer Frederick Livingston, titled 'Prayer for Ali', which can be read in its entirety here. The editors loved it for its tenderness and for its powerful ending.
Q&A with Grant Vecera
Q&A with Jonathan Everitt
This week we're featuring a new poem by Jonathan Everitt, titled "Let Me Explain". The full poem - and the rest of our poetry offerings - are available here on our website.
Q&A with K.B. Ballentine
Claire Beaver, one of our poetry editors, talked with poet K.B. Ballentine about her work, what it's like teaching writing to younger students, and why she writes by hand before her poems make it to the computer.
Q&A with Christopher Forrest
As a part of our ongoing contributor conversation series, our editor-in-chief Julian Kanagy talked with Christopher Forrest about his new works, and about how fatherhood and legacy inform his work. This is their conversation in full.
Q&A with K. Rose Dallimore
The Umbrella's poetry team recently chose "History", by American poet K. Rose Dallimore, as our newest featured work.
Q&A with G.B. Prabhat
Our poetry team published new work from G.B. Prabhat – "Individuality", a translated poem from his original Tamil.