Mark Brown

MARK BROWN {[email protected]} teaches composition, film, and cre￾ative writing at Delta College in mid-Michigan. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Boise State University and a PhD in Film Studies from Wayne State in Detroit. His poems have previously appeared in Dialogue, Bluffs, InLand, Ethos, New Zoo Poetry Review, and other publications. He served as faculty advisor for student creative writing clubs at Illinois Valley Community College and Delta College. He also helped edit the campus literary journals Silo, River Currents, and Pioneer Post. He is a member of the Broken Nose Poetry Collective. Mark lives in Midland, Michigan, with his wife and three daughters.

Temple

Articles/Essays – Volume 49, No. 1

Orange lightning burns 
the Detroit sky tonight. 
We just got out of the temple,
two hours of white stillness, 

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Grief

Articles/Essays – Volume 49, No. 1

is a volatile fuel 
that blazes you far 
into the white desert 
like some 50s speed test pilot 

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Mormons, Southerners, and American Assimilation | Patrick Q. Mason, The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 4

Patrick Mason has recently been named to the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont University. He was granted a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame; and his dissertation, “Sinners in the…

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