Went the Flame Once in My Heart
On Discovering Frank O’Hara
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.
Treatise on the Solivagant
Histology
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Calp
Playtime is Over
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.
How Shall I Defy You Who Wound Me in the Night?
Q&A with Oliver Smith
Out of Time
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.
MIRROR
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.
Polaroids
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.
Between the Tides
The Dying Art of Letting Go
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.