Featured Ekphrastics

HUMBLE

Vol. IX

For Volume IX, HUMBLE, Quibble Lit features the artwork of Carol Shillibeer.

Our cover works, “sunflower” and “dreamcatcher,” are joined here by “rain,” “ant tracks,” and “storm before the poem comes.”

Writers are invited to spend time with these images and respond however they open themselves: through poetry, prose, memory, story, question, observation, or imagination.

HUMBLE asks us to learn to always be learning. These works offer five places to begin.

Featured Works

• sunflower

• dreamcatcher

• rain

• ant tracks

• storm before the poem comes

Selected ekphrastic responses will appear alongside Shillibeer’s work in HUMBLE: Volume IX.

Carol Shillibeer is a poet and visual artist whose work moves between image, language, observation, and the natural world. Her poetry and art have appeared across a wide range of literary publications, including Room, The Malahat Review, Contemporary Verse 2, and filling Station, and her work has received Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations.

Across both mediums, Shillibeer’s practice is rooted in close attention: to weather, landscape, living systems, and the unexpected connections that emerge when we look a little longer.