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.

Articles

Ascension, after John Donne

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

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

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

The Tree at the Center

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

One Thousand Two Hundred Sixty Days

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

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

In honor of Women’s History Month 2025, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought presents the essay “The Mother Tree: Understanding the Spiritual Root of Our Ecological Crisis” by Kathryn Knight Sonntag from the Spring 2019… Read more