Loretta Randall Sharp

LORETTA RANDALL SHARP is currently at the Taipei American School. She has recently received a 1989-90 Creative Artist Award from the Michigan Council of the Arts to complete a manuscript of poems about women and goddesses of India.

For Linda

Articles/Essays – Volume 14, No. 4

If only there were daisies here in tin cans.
These flowers are too nice: ivory-tongued anthurium,
gladiola mouths holding their long, red O’s
while Sister Smith whispers, “Aren’t the roses

Stones; The Salutation; The Problem; Grandmother, Grandmother, Grandmother; Bishop

Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 3

Stones The following poems are taken from a collection called Letting Go and center on the experiences of three Mormon women, Beth, Elise, and Willene, who are spending the summer in 12N, an efficiency apartment…

The Slow Way Home

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 3

She leaves the women in her husband’s house
and makes a slow way home
to her own mother, to friends singing
as they bring sweet butter
for the first month, molasses

Going Home

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 4

“Walk,” scold your doctors, but you snort
that it will take a cold day in hell
to make you shuffle from room to room
like some old man. So here I am,