On My Art
July 17, 20191952. I was born in Canada and raised in Utah. Received a BFA and MFA from BYU and taught printmaking there for sixteen years. Drawing and then painting desert landscape has been my primary focus…
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The Maidservant’s Witness | Mette Harrison, The Book of Abish
July 17, 2019Every writer, whether prophetic or not, questions some things and assumes others. One of the attractions of a retelling is the way it highlights subjectivity—something we tend to ignore as readers of history, myth, or…
Understudies for Angels | Megan Sanborn Jones, Contemporary Mormon Pageantry: Seeking After the Dead
July 17, 2019The cover photo startles us into the book’s theme: two tribes, ghosts and mortals, staring off in the same direction. Beyond that cover we take a trek through Mormonism’s pageantry—not the pageantry of temple rituals…
Reasonably Good Tidings of Greater-than-Average Joy | Grant Hardy, ed., The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, Maxwell Institute Study Edition.
July 17, 2019For serious readers of scripture, the publication of a major study edition is cause for great rejoicing. The HarperCollins Study Bible and the major Oxford Study Bibles (the Jewish Study Bible, the Catholic Study Bible,…
Bode and Iris
July 17, 2019Listen to the piece here. It may seem odd that an experienced fornicator like Bode Carpenter would get the girl pregnant in the first place—particularly because he carried a condom in the watch pocket of…
New & Everlasting
July 17, 2019The former widow
and the former widower
seem happy
Sweater
July 17, 2019Horizontal stripes
black and white
The Moldau in a Utah Living Room
July 17, 2019I most recall the river music. Smetana’s Moldau
meandered often into the air at our house,
European classical sounding in the high Utah parroquia.
The Mormon Peace Gathering
July 17, 2019Last Vegas, Nevada : March, 1992
Fresh from Mountain Meadows, headed home
from the Nevada Test Site, we were high
from crawling under barbed wire, and trespassing,
when I flipped the doe into the suicide lane.
Sunday School
July 17, 2019Each week the teacher gave us
something to be grateful for,
for we saw
with perfect pity,