Kathryn Knight Sonntag

KATHRYN KNIGHT SONNTAG {[email protected]} is the author of The Tree at the Center (By Common Consent Press, 2019). Her poems and essays appear in Colorado Review, The Inflectionist Review, Rock & Sling, Ethel, Psaltery & Lyre, Exponent II, Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild (Torrey House Press, 2021), and others. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning degree and works as a land planner in Salt Lake City.

Ascension, after John Donne

Articles/Essays – Volume 55, No. 1

Podcast version of this piece. Embrace the first and forever night,Heartening as this Moon journeys from crestingTo full-figured, and in this ecstasy begins to fallEarthward, pulling me down to orchards heavyAnd underground, into mysteries of…

The Mother Tree: Understanding the Spiritual Root of Our Ecological Crisis

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 1

Dialogue 52.1 (Spring 2019): 17–32
But the experience of women as women, their wilderness crescent,
is unshared with men—utterly other—and therefore to men, unnatural.

The Older Covenant

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 3

Take me back
before the broken tablets,
back to the secrets of winds
unfurled, constellations rising

The Tree at the Center

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 3

We talk often
of the Son’s surrender
His long suffering, His forever
atoning—the shards

One Thousand Two Hundred Sixty Days

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 3

Sometimes in a long white
gown, often in tattered brown
wool, always with two wings
of a great eagle on Her back, Asherah