The U.S. Women’s Movement of the 1970s focused on several issues, with passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) at the forefront. In the middle of this battle stood Sonia Johnson, a Ph.D. in education,…
We had only cameras
and yearning, but the wind rasped
stone like a hot tongue
and cameras and yearning
A few years ago a member of our Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2nd Ward bishopric and his wife made their first journey across the United States. Born and reared in Japan, they were anxious to see the…
During the winter of 1994 a man I represented was taken to a small room in Huntsville, Texas, strapped to a gurney, and his life was taken from him by strangers in the name of…
I arrived in San Diego the day before Christmas to visit my mother and to clean out her garage. I am the fourth of seven children, most of whom live much farther away than L.A.…
These bodies
look like they were pancake mix
that, when poured on the skillet,
turned out to look sort of human.
Preliminary Considerations: Counting Wives Some readers may regard the accompanying chart of Joseph Smith’s plural wives as overly conservative. Fawn Brodie counted forty-eight wives in her biography of Joseph Smith; more recently D. Michael Quinn…
Lying on my mother’s bed
listening to tropical rain skitter
across a mottled screen,
I hold my daughter, sprawled in sleep,
As earth began to shed the snowy clouds of
death and slumber,
as darkness ebbed within the solstice,
you slept in my dark womb,
In Lewis Horne’s short story, “The People Who Were Not There,” the young Mormon protagonist looks at the notebook of Clifford Wellington, an Indian boy from a local reservation, and declares, “The pages gave off…