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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.

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Polaroids

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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.

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Between the Tides

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The Dying Art of Letting Go

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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.

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Prayer for Ali

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Q&A with Grant Vecera

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Fundraiser

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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.

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Let Me Explain

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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.

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Outline of a Soul

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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.