Terresa Wellborn

TERRESA WELLBORN {[email protected]} has been published in various journals including BYU Studies and Otis Nebula and several anthologies including Fire in the Pasture and Dove Song. Former associate poetry editor and submissions editor for Segullah, she now serves on their poetry board. She has degrees in English literature and library science. A bricoleur, her trademarks are red lipstick, running, and covert accordion playing. When not on a mountaintop, she dwells in possibility. She blogs at thechocolatechipwaffle.blogspot.com.

Pando: The Secret Life of Trees

Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 2

Pando extends, a network of aspen one mile south of Fish Lake in central Utah. At eighty thousand years, it is one of the oldest and heaviest living organisms on the planet. Pando has survived…

Explaining God the Mother to My Father

Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 1

they went to Mount Charleston for the sagebrush the pines
the all-women

Devotion

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 1

Every Tuesday morning, sky dark,
I rise to the temple. Today, by the
time we reach the Garden, the
actors need help with their lines.

Revealing the Holy in Deja Earley’s To the Mormon Newlyweds Who Thought the Bellybutton was Somehow Involved

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 4

Don’t let the book cover’s scandalous bare navel dissuade you. Deja Earley’s poetry collection, To the Mormon Newlyweds Who Thought the Bellybutton Was Somehow Involved, is well worth your time as she navigates the truths…

Grand Canyon, North Rim

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 1

The canyon is in the pines,
you find it there in sharps and flats,
rush at the edge, a thousand
improvisations of rain, needles, light fall.

The Afternoon Hour

Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 2

You colored me
sienna, azure,
a shape I was becoming,
a bird, perhaps,