She is willful. She is in the other room. She is “the feminine / present subjunctive.” She is “tessellating.” She is “throneless, / wanders.” She is “queen of heaven.” She is a “Heavenly Hausfrau.” […]
[…] outside of the human experience of dying, offering accounts of the prevalence with death in the surrounding world. The final section presents individuals grappling with death and the way it manifests in the life […]
It has now been months since I first made the acquaintance of Gilda Trillim, but even now I must admit that I do not completely understand her.
The angel met him once every four years in what is now the Ina Coolbrith Park. The first time digging them up took longer than the angel had anticipated.
[…] luna se saludan. *** Halloween Poem, 2001 Translated from Spanish by John-Charles Duffy Halloween fell today in the mountains (a million pumpkins waging terror), and the streets of Utah were occupied by goblins, ghosts, […]
Imagine a world with labels on the leaves, fossilized scripture in compacted dust, “God Made” on hooves—where everyone believes not out of hope or faith, but because they must.
[…] the worse. Though her future is uncertain, she’s no longer a weird Mormon girl taking on the world alone—she has real friends to help with her doubts. Throughout Part Two, Hales deftly addresses the […]
Dear Holy (one?) I hope you are home for this. Tell me the name of your name. For this I am on my knees (though I am closed still. Bruised.) But I have come […]
Five kings fell when Joshua prayed first for Gibeon sun Then moonlight in the valley of Ajalon to stay slant and Still beam; freeze a span of time beyond its allotted measure.
In her full-length debut, Pigs When They Straddle the Air: A Novel in Seven Stories, Julie J. Nichols presents the interconnected lives of various women living in Salt Lake City over a span of […]