Kevin Klein

KEVIN KLEIN {[email protected]} likes learning and writing about things, including poetry, picture books, family building, instructional design for gospel learning, math education, and bean-tobar chocolate. His greatest interest is people. Kevin studied at Brigham Young University, Utah Valley University, and Edith Cowan University before teaching high-school English for the space of a time at a Catholic school in Perth, Australia. He now lives back in Utah County, where he creates teacher training materials for the K-12 crowd and lives after the manner of happiness with a wonderful woman and two kids.

Allergies

Articles/Essays – Volume 57, No. 04

On Mother’s Day it snows
in our backyard, the kind that grows
on cottonwoods and makes my nose
itch inside the nostrils, pinch half-closed

The Pioneer Woman, St. George

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 3

She brought her family to this god
forsaken place at His request.
She will petition until He reconsiders
and crops cover the reproach

Soft

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 2

A drive for its own sake
five o’clock on a lazy New Year’s Day,
our kids, aged two and one, coming down
from the cocktail of cousins and sugar.

A Better Country

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 2

With seedling splintered bone and seminal tears
They planted furrows of themselves to please
The God of distant rest, whose mysteries
Confirmed the city and sustained its seers.