The Principle, Kathryn Smoot Caldwell’s first novel, received the significant encouragement of first prize in Randall Book’s 1983 LDS Novel Writing Contest —$500 plus a $1,000 advance on royalties. (Second and third place winners Carol…
Merchants and Miners in Utah is a mis leading title, for Jonathan Bliss’s volume extends far beyond the boundaries of territorial Utah, extensive though they were, to tell the epic story of the Walker Brothers…
Mouth over the reed,
you empty your feelings
into the hollow heart.
These are the pieces left:
I keep diaries in my head
At night I write on sealed pages
In dream codes a sort
Of dot-dot-dash Morse himself
Fern left Relief Society early. She had never done that before, but she had a headache. Or something. It wasn’t really a headache, but it was in her head. Or her neck, or back. It wasn’t…
I had just hung up my topcoat and scarf and tossed my jacket on the f unmade bed when the telephone rang. There was a time when I liked to hear that sound; it meant…
When I slid the damask
from its plastic sleeve
to spread it on the table,
the stain throbbed against crisp white.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it seems, has had little ^ use for poetry that cannot be sung. The chief place of verse has always been the hymnal, and not without reason:…
In the early years of this century,” observed David A. Shannon, “the Socialist Party of America was a young and virile organization that could not escape notice. Far stronger than any contemporary party on the left,…
I’ve found it useful at times to think of Christ as an intellectual in the ser vice of the faith. I find that he assumes and champions the ability of persons to examine and revise…