Elizabeth Pinborough

ELIZABETH PINBOROUGH is a writer, editor, and artist who lives in Salt Lake City. She graduated from Brigham Young University and Yale Divinity School with degrees in English literature and religion and literature, respectively. She co-edits the literature and arts journal Young Ravens Literary Review. She edited Habits of Being: Mormon Women’s Material Culture, which was published by Exponent II. Her first poetry collection, The Brain’s Lectionary: Psalms and Observations, was published by By Common Consent Press in 2022.

From the Angels’ Perch at Mount Moriah

Articles/Essays – Volume 55, No. 2

Podcast version of this piece. Scene: Thicket for a Slaughter We have seenbets, contests— only the greatones sent tospar with God: father, son,sacrifice. Scene: An Examination Question:the brain, a tangledbramble—the fire and the knife,a fearsomebinding.…

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Recreating Abraham’s Star Charts

Articles/Essays – Volume 55, No. 2

Podcast version of this piece. I pause on the path, drop my sticks,and bend to read them like runes.Tell the stars, They said. So I do daily— I chart their breathless turning asI gather berries…

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Tender Rills

Articles/Essays – Volume 55, No. 2

Podcast version of this piece. If Gods are poeming Kolob,if I am poeming God, if we arepoems to each other, A word is more than a destinationthan a path, than a map. A word is…

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January 21, 2019

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 1

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A Shaker Sister’s Hymnal

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 2

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