Clear-Sighted
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.
On This Fresh Morning in the Broken World
In the Garden of Girlhood
Lunuganga
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
28.6
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.