U F M # 3 8
Umbrella Factory Magazine
We are a small press determined to connect well-developed readers to intelligent writers and poets through virtual means, printed journals, and books. We believe in making an honest living providing the best writers and poets a forum for their work.
2
Issue 38 August 2019
3
Umbrella Factory Magazine
Submit Yes, we respond to all submissions. The turn-around takes about three to six weeks. Be patient. We are hardworking people who will get back to you. We consider ourselves at Umbrella Factory Magazine as a cooperative forum to connect readers to the best writing available. All writers and poets retain all rights to their work. Fiction Sized between 1,000 and 5,000 words. Any writer wishing to submit fiction in an excess of 5,000 words, please query first. Please double space. We do not accept multiple submissions, please wait for a reply before submitting your next piece. In the body of your email please include: a short bio—who you are, what you do, hope to be. Include any great life revelations, education and your favorite novel. Your work has to be previously unpublished. We encourage you to submit your piece everywhere, but please withdraw your piece if gets published elsewhere. ______________________ poetry We accept submissions of three (no more and no less) poems. Please submit only previously unpublished work. We do not accept multiple submissions; please wait to hear back from us regarding your initial submission before sending another. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please withdraw your piece immediately if it is accepted elsewhere. All poetry submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter that includes a two to four sentence bio in the third person. This bio will be used if we accept your work for publication. _______________________ art Accepting submissions for the next cover of Umbrella Factory Magazine. We would like to incorporate images with the theme of umbrellas, factories and/or workers. Feel free to use one or all of these concepts. Image size should be 980×700 pixels, .jpeg or .gif file format. Provide a place for the magazine title at the top and article links. We also accept small portfolios of photography and digitally rendered artwork. We accept six pieces (no more and no less) along with an artist’s statement and a third person bio.
4
Issue 38 August 2019
Jana Bramwell, Art Director Janice ILacqua, Copy Editor Anthony ILacqua, Editor in Chief
5
Umbrella Factory Magazine
6
Issue 38 August 2019
7
Umbrella Factory Magazine
8
Issue 38 August 2019
9
Umbrella Factory Magazine
Richard Weaver lives in Baltimore City (home of the original Umbrella Factory (1826)) where he volunteers with the Maryland Book Bank, acts as the Archivist-atlarge for a Jesuit college, and is the Official poet-in-residence at the James Joyce Pub and Restaurant. He is the author of The Stars Undone (Duende Press). His poems have appeared in River Poet’s Journal, Southern Review, Little Patuxent Review, Loch Raven Review, Adelaide, Slush Pile, and Elsewhere. Yes, there is a magazine named Elsewhere.
10
Issue 38 August 2019
Woman Facing the Window of the Sea Today the sea is an insatiable blue surrounding me. On all sides hands willingly accept my body's white curves, eyes retreat into patient shadows and bend with the available light. Like the white sailboats they are filled with desire, a hope that calls the wind to carry them; they are sailing out past the channel buoys. And now they've come racing back, jib sails hoisted, expectant. Moored in blond faith, they wave tanned arms and run along the dark line of the shore as the sun washes centuries into asylum and the envious palms lean to find their share slipping like mercury through burning fingers.
Richard Weaver
11
Umbrella Factory Magazine
D owsing for an Answer A letter came today from the mountains where the snow is finally melting, and lost skiers slowly drift down the slopes toward town. I open it, and the words are pieces of coal carefully arranged in ice: invitations to travel, leather tongues searching for my own. They read: a spring wells up at the mountain’s foot. It fills the crippled man with a numbing pride in the hollow of his legs. A stranger without hands, waving. The snow-blind face of Beethoven that melts as you stare.
1 2 Richard Weaver
Issue 38 August 2019
13
Umbrella Factory Magazine
14
Issue 38 August 2019
Michael Dittman 1 5
Umbrella Factory Magazine
1 6 Michael Dittman
Issue 38 August 2019
(contuniued)
Michael Dittman
17
Umbrella Factory Magazine
1 8 Michael Dittman
Issue 38 August 2019
19
Umbrella Factory Magazine
20
Issue 38 August 2019
21
Umbrella Factory Magazine
22
Issue 38 August 2019
23
Umbrella Factory Magazine
24
Issue 38 August 2019
25
Umbrella Factory Magazine
*
26
Issue 38 August 2019
27
Umbrella Factory Magazine
28
Issue 38 August 2019
29
Umbrella Factory Magazine
30
Issue 38 August 2019
31