‘Elegy’
— Hannah Cohen
The future of poetry is in the hands of some amazing young, up-and-coming poets, as revealed in the inaugural poem published in the new The Ellis Review. A magazine that proudly exclaims “new beginnings” for anyone with a voice, O’Malley’s stunning short poem delivers their mission statement with power and poignancy. This poem is a world where “graveyards grow” and contains “an endless winter”—with all the violence and fear in our current day and age, it is especially important for writers to take the ugly in this time and make it beautiful, haunting. With the poem’s epigraph, a quote from one of Russia’s greatest poets, Anna Akhmatova, her legacy continues to inspire and reach those who care about language and power.