For years cultural geographers, folklorists, and other researchers have identified and delineated the Mormon region of the American West by charting characteristic elements of its cultural landscape. In his 1952 work The Mormon Village, Lowry…
In the first century A.D., Pontius Pilate, confounded by Jesus Christ’s forceful witness to his mission to “bear witness unto the truth,” asked, “What is truth?” (John 18:38) This was neither the first nor the…
In his landmark study of early Mormon economic life, Great Basin Kingdom, Leonard J. Arrington observed: Joseph Smith and other early Mormon leaders seem to have seen every part of life, and every problem put…
How does one capture Leonard Arrington? It is a pleasure to attempt, but certainly no easy task. I see Leonard as scientists see nature: in four dimensions. But just as scientists are now discovering and…
Dark berries abound
like full moons;
the sight of ripeness
in sunstruck orbs
A white-dusted woman looks up from sifting circles of
Yellow grain, and husks, and leaves.
In the clicking speech of her people she calls, Ah hello.
Dear God! Your two faces shine before me.
Few men have had a greater impact on the cultural life of contemporary Utah than has Obert C. Tanner. Through countless philanthropic endeavors, he and his wife, Grace, have guaranteed a quality of life otherwise…
Dennis Clark loves poetry and poets, and he also loves to write poetry. I don’t think this can be said of everybody in the poetry business. These three chapbooks are evidence of Dennis’s development as…
Mary B. ran
the Deseret
Milk Company,
