Isaac James Richards
ISAAC JAMES RICHARDS {[email protected]} is a PhD student at the Pennsylvania State University. During his master’s degree at BYU, he taught first-year, honors, and advanced writing. He is a contributing editor for Wayfare Magazine and has won 2nd Place in the Clinton F. Larson, Hart-Larson, and Vera Hinckley Mayhew poetry contests. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Amethyst Review, Blue Heron Review, BYU Studies Quarterly, Heart of Flesh, Inscape, Irreantum, Minyan Magazine, Yad Mizrah, Young Ravens Literary Review, and several other venues. He is also a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions nominee. Find him online at https://www.isaacrichards.com/.
A Modest Paraphrase of Alma 30:44
Articles/Essays – Volume 58, No. 2
All things denote there is a God, even the carpet, and
the tile, and the television. Tele- meaning “at a distance” plus “vision.” And yet the
toddler places his palm directly on the screen, patting the prophet’s
Rumination: Time
Articles/Essays – Volume 58, No. 2
What is like grating cheese? Hard
to begin with vehicle before tenor
but perhaps Samson’s falling locks.
Rumination: Love
Articles/Essays – Volume 58, No. 2
After passing another
I’ve been implored a
so fine. I will. This
my pinkie toe to my