Alixa Brobbey

ALIXA BROBBEY spent portions of her childhood in both the Netherlands and Ghana before traveling to study English at Brigham Young University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Canvas, Blue Marble Review, the Battering Ram, Segullah, Inscape, the Albion Review, the Susquehanna Review, and others.

Agency and Its Aftermath in Three Recent Poetry Collections | Sharlee Mullins Glenn, Brighter and Brighter Until the Perfect Day; Marilyn Bushman-Carlton, We Wore Dresses; and Steven Peck, Experiments in the Fading Light

Articles/Essays – Volume 59, No. 02

“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” What will you do with your agency, your desires, your very body? These questions repeatedly came to mind as I read three recent poetry collections by Latter-day Saint authors—Brighter and Brighter Until the Perfect Day by Sharlee Mullins Glenn, We Wore Dresses by Marilyn Bushman-Carlton, and Experiments in the Fading Light by Stephen Peck. Each collection, with its own themes and poetic styles, grapples with and answers these questions in its own way.

Passion

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 2

“And he said unto me: Knowest thou the condescension of God?”—1 Nephi 11:16 A body so light, it floatedacross wind-whipped wavesand did not sink. So full of life,it survived empty forty days,no wheat for forty…

Daffodils

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 3

Your lips are melting petals,Wilting into my mouth.My tears not clearEnough to revive them. When you learn to fly,Will they forget to dance?Lose their maypole eyelashesAnd languish, lonely, withWings cut. And yet,I pray, make me…

Created in His Image

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 3

I.The first lie they told me wasBlonde Jesus. Thick Belinda locks,And blue ocean eyes.He hangs on the cross, whiteLike a tender lamb, orWhite like a lily flower,Or like white snowSmothering brown ground. II.The second lie…