Elizabeth Garcia

ELIZABETH CRANFORD GARCIA is the current poetry editor for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, previous poetry editor for Segullah, and a contributor to Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, and her first chapbook, Stunt Double, was published in 2015 by Finishing Line Press. Her three small children compete with her writing for attention, and usually win.

Reviving Desdemona | Dayna Patterson, O Lady, Speak Again

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 4

When I began analyzing literature in high school, I was trained to see a poem as a thing made perfect by intent, by genius, an idea that prepared me to become adept at finding an…

Some Definitions of Gratitude

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 3

On our ride home from my brother’s house last Easter Sunday, having spent a few hours basking in our blessings of atonement and progeny, we pass an accident on the interstate. I say accident, though…

Sunni Brown Wilkinson. The Marriage of the Moon and the Field

Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 3

“To speak to Moses, God / put a stone in his mouth, put on / a sackcloth of verbs (want, need), / cleared his throat. Cried out” (3). Sunni Brown Wilkinson this way begins her collection The…

The Holy Ghost in Polyhymnia’s Closet

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 1

The Holy Ghost in Melpomene’s Closet

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 1

Atlanta to Salt Lake

Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 2

Prose will not capture some people, the way
they drift. You can only see them dragging
their furniture through Wyoming night,
down a dark throat of road, the ice

Drum Major

Articles/Essays – Volume 48, No. 4