Jonathon Penny

JONATHON PENNY {[email protected]} is husband to one and father to three, and is the Associate Dean in the School of University Studies and Career Access at the College of New Caledonia. In addition to occasional scholarly pieces, he has published short fiction and poetry, and is the author of Blessed and Broad, These Badlands, a four-play cycle set in Southern Alberta, Canada. He is also the translator of Jad Hatem’s Postponing Heaven (Maxwell Institute, 2015), and currently serves as president of the associa￾tion Mormon Scholars in the Humanities.

Review: “Babbling on toward Ephemeral Patterns” Patrick Madden, Disparates

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 2

Alphabetize yourkarma, sever your qigong,jinx your wifi code. Disparates, 134 I want to suggest that Disparates is less disparate than it claims to be, that there is a running theme or a coherent message that…

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Out of the Garden: The Nature of Revelation in Romanticism, Naturalism, and Modernism

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 4

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Mere Tears and Torrents, Signs and Seals: The Sweet Semantic Everything of Troubled Love Matthew James Babcock. Four Tales of Troubled Love

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 1

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Winterscape: Prairie

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 2

Fallow soil, windblown, is a rigid latticework 
Pressed hard against patchwork fields etched with snow. 

A river, drawn amblingly, God’s Hancock doodle,
Flows its cursive way across the whole.

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Mormon Scholars in the Humanities Conference | Savior, silver, psalms, and sighs, and flash-burn offerings

Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 3

Help thou mine unbelief  and I 
Will give away my sins or keep them close to know you;   
Will seek you in the best  and brokenest of books; 
Will cling hard, let loose, bring forth flesh and fruit,  if this will please;
Will more-than-tithe my time and talent, open windows;   
Make room for oil and balsam, if you’ll pour;   
Will labor, useless, to admit,  but leave a spare under the mat,
Create diversions, throw down ropes; 
Will pray and fast and follow and hope; 

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“Epithalamion” by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 4

HARK, hearer, hear what I do; lend a thought now, make believe
We are leafwhelmed somewhere with the hood 
Of some branchy bunchy bushybowered wood, 
Southern dene or Lancashire clough or Devon cleave,
That leans along the loins of hills, where a candycoloured

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Fern Hill Revisited

Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 4

Time held me green and dying, though I sang, 
And spun me off the whinnied fields and out of praise
In his big harvest hands ’til horse and hen and place
Were only memory, then myth, then vacant space

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