Big Pink Umbrella

Susan Millar DuMars was born in Philadelphia in 1966 and earned an MA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Her poems and short stories have been published widely in the US, UK and Ireland, where she now lives. Susan and her husband Kevin Higgins have organized the successful Over the Edge reading series, showcasing new writers. Big Pink Umbrella is the first full collection of her poetry.

Part One
Fallen 1973	p. 11
Korea	p. 12
Honey	p. 13
I am an empty room	p. 14
Fourteen	p. 15
dis	p. 17
Shirt	p. 18
Hampshire College Halloween	p. 19
The Goddess and the Chickpea	p. 20
Winter, Eggs	p. 21
Bay Area Rapid Transit	p. 23
Rain Again	p. 25
Falling Alone	p. 26
Morning Kisses	p. 27
Open Palms	p. 28
Home from Work	p. 31
Silk Scarf	p. 32
Number Five	p. 33
Better Days	p. 35
Sky Multiplied By Two	p. 36
Part Two
To Sylvia Plath	p. 39
Salthill	p. 40
Trafalgar Square	p. 41
The Wellspring Wife	p. 43
My Husband, the Great Poet	p. 44
Part of Me	p. 46
On Not Getting Nominated	p. 48
On My Mother's Street	p. 49
Newcastle Road	p. 50
Cathal, Briefly	p. 51
To a Writer I Used To Know	p. 52
Crocodile Sonnet	p. 53
Poets Are Just Like Everyone Else	p. 54
Zelda Fitzgerald Holding Her Cat	p. 55
Karma the Cat	p. 56
Big Pink Umbrella	p. 57
What Seems To Be The Problem?	p. 58
Daughter	p. 60
Daisy	p. 61
Supermarket Selves	p. 63
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