Una Nichols Hynum, from Volume 3:1

The poet laureate Billy Collins once called Una Nichols Hynum "the poet who made me wake up." Hynum was born in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of San Diego State University and a finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Prize, she has been published in Rattle, an island of egrets, A Year in Ink, San Diego Poetry Annual, Magee Park Anthology, and many poetry anthologies. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and is a member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.

Synesthesia Literary Journal Volume 3:1 features three poems by Hynum: "Conversation, with Soul," "Alchemy," and "Haunting." Each piece dazzles, the language lush, terse, meditative.

From "Haunting":

The cemetery sits on a hill, crosses
stamped on the sky, round shouldered

clouds shuddering in the chill Santa Ana wind.

[...]

                                                           Hell
would be knowing, or living through something

again you cannot live through or die from.

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Read Hynum's amazing poems in full! Navigate over to Synesthesia Literary Journal Volume 3:1!