#gillian hamel

[omnidawn]

Up at The Conversant: Gillian Hamel interviews Rebecca Gaydos about Gaydos’s new poetry collection “Güera:”

Gaydos: I do 'write from experience,' as they say. For instance, threaded throughout this book are various love poems that are based on actual romantic relationships, relationships that happened as part of my everyday life. But when pieces of language, gestures, stores, bars, etc. get onto the page, something else has already happened or is about to happen...

[omnidawn]

(  ) death I cause       I result in breaking heads along the highway. burial as it fits between transit. buttons make time stop and shirt buttons make time not work for me faulting clothes to shame physics. time as a round thing I fumble to break           our paradox meant to save to leave machines. each dream ends on a hill. each leaving the stadium           night indoors      a day and things growing           past the margins near the realities where I conclude. I’d better say sorry among grass. an easy shape pushing upward. re-recording the sound of my own hands.

  Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel is Omnidawn's Managing Poetry Editor & OmniVerse Managing Editor

[omnidawn]

they all went to breakfast and came back in a great burst of light. give sustaining—who’s an angel? vinegar.

Gillian Hamel, OmniVerse managing editor, in the Volta's Trash issue