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James Deweywith gratitude to Adam S. Miller and Ryan W. Quinn in the beginning, Godgave grace awayfast and free to all this is what we call creationwhich was actually continuationand still continues every day, every hour,…
Noted in the Dark
Dixie Lee PartridgeSome nights here there’ve been singings the children out into twilight . . . their countings,their hidings, their ally ally oxen frees.And sometimes the crickets were not sounding bereft but offered impressions you needed to hear. Now in…
These Are the Hours
Dixie Lee Partridgewhen birds disappear taking strips of light folded in feathersnight insects ready themselves for meals from leaves of rose and raspberrythe hollow by the lane pools with evening like waterno moonrise cool radiance but night…
Vantage: Hoback Rim to Wind River
Dixie Lee PartridgeClosed to drift most of the year,trails descend through short lives of wildflowersbright in colonies, August air verging on frost,its thin metallic edge:snow squalls visible aheadwhere a continent divides.Life stays steep. Nothing in the view…
The Days Between—After Leaving Our YoungestAt College
Dixie Lee PartridgeIt’s turning fall in this long alley of young trees,poplar leaves still and golding in deep shade.You see no one and hear not even birds. But the pale trunks together seem to humlike choir rows,…
Lithium Shuffle
Reed RichardsDown the streettrusties from the state hospitalfollowing the horizon of their noon shadows,their feet scooping up the sidewalk,the fastest as slow as the slowest.The sun is on them and pitiless.If we, shaded neighborson the other…
heavy seeds
James Dewey. . . they buried the weapons of war, for peace. Alma 24:19 bury seeds these with covenant gritshrill songs on our lips as we circle the pit clank seeds clanging as we cry-file bybeg,…
Homemade Medicine
Emily UpdegraffGrandpa filled gelcaps with his own mixof dried herbs. Before clean food,before expensive organics, beforewellness became photogenic,he was a health nut. I asked himwhy did he grind dried leavesthe color of new hay,why did he…
Heart Sutra (In the guest bedroom at dawn, after the pandemic)
Charles Shiro Inouye1Today we scorn Russians,But we were invaders, too.Our lifestyle at stake in Iraq.Searching but not finding.Blood and bones and dirt.Infection and tears.Fighting to prove . . . what?Truth? America? God on our side? Twenty years ago, I heard…
No Man Can Serve Two Masters
Gregory BrooksEnjoy this poem in audio version here. But my diagnosis says otherwise. Depression oozes under my door: the destroying angel visits:until I can’t get out of bed. One week later I’m waving bloody hyssop like glow sticks at a ravenudging sushi…
flicker
James Deweywith gratitude to Adam S. Miller and Ryan W. Quinn in the beginning, Godgave grace awayfast and free to all this is what we call creationwhich was actually continuationand still continues every day, every hour,…
Noted in the Dark
Dixie Lee PartridgeSome nights here there’ve been singings the children out into twilight . . . their countings,their hidings, their ally ally oxen frees.And sometimes the crickets were not sounding bereft but offered impressions you needed to hear. Now in…
These Are the Hours
Dixie Lee Partridgewhen birds disappear taking strips of light folded in feathersnight insects ready themselves for meals from leaves of rose and raspberrythe hollow by the lane pools with evening like waterno moonrise cool radiance but night…
Vantage: Hoback Rim to Wind River
Dixie Lee PartridgeClosed to drift most of the year,trails descend through short lives of wildflowersbright in colonies, August air verging on frost,its thin metallic edge:snow squalls visible aheadwhere a continent divides.Life stays steep. Nothing in the view…
The Days Between—After Leaving Our YoungestAt College
Dixie Lee PartridgeIt’s turning fall in this long alley of young trees,poplar leaves still and golding in deep shade.You see no one and hear not even birds. But the pale trunks together seem to humlike choir rows,…
Lithium Shuffle
Reed RichardsDown the streettrusties from the state hospitalfollowing the horizon of their noon shadows,their feet scooping up the sidewalk,the fastest as slow as the slowest.The sun is on them and pitiless.If we, shaded neighborson the other…
heavy seeds
James Dewey. . . they buried the weapons of war, for peace. Alma 24:19 bury seeds these with covenant gritshrill songs on our lips as we circle the pit clank seeds clanging as we cry-file bybeg,…
Homemade Medicine
Emily UpdegraffGrandpa filled gelcaps with his own mixof dried herbs. Before clean food,before expensive organics, beforewellness became photogenic,he was a health nut. I asked himwhy did he grind dried leavesthe color of new hay,why did he…
Heart Sutra (In the guest bedroom at dawn, after the pandemic)
Charles Shiro Inouye1Today we scorn Russians,But we were invaders, too.Our lifestyle at stake in Iraq.Searching but not finding.Blood and bones and dirt.Infection and tears.Fighting to prove . . . what?Truth? America? God on our side? Twenty years ago, I heard…
No Man Can Serve Two Masters
Gregory BrooksEnjoy this poem in audio version here. But my diagnosis says otherwise. Depression oozes under my door: the destroying angel visits:until I can’t get out of bed. One week later I’m waving bloody hyssop like glow sticks at a ravenudging sushi…
Throwing Up in the DC Temple
Gregory BrooksEnjoy this poem in audio version here. Maybe it was envy that churned inside meas I looked around the room. Wonderingwhat healthy Mormons felt instead of fear. My body forced everyone to consider what it meant to be sick in…
Passion
Alixa Brobbey“And he said unto me: Knowest thou the condescension of God?”—1 Nephi 11:16 A body so light, it floatedacross wind-whipped wavesand did not sink. So full of life,it survived empty forty days,no wheat for forty…
Fierce Passage
Darlene YoungEnjoy this poem in audio version here. Today while researching ancestors, sifting through nested petalsof records for names that belong to me, peoplewho’ve left their bloody signatures in my genes, I found Melissa, some sixth…
A Good Sick Girl Never Gives Up
Darlene YoungEnjoy this poem in audio version here. A good sick girl would never give up.She pushes on in search of a cure,working as if all depended on her.“Not knowing beforehand” what she should do,she moves…
Hippocrates
Darlene YoungEnjoy this poem in audio version here. The doctor calls her sweetheart when she criesat hearing there is nothing he can find.He pats her back but will not meet her eyes. He doesn’t really mean…
Migraine Suite
Darlene YoungEnjoy this poem in audio version here. Prelude Something is not right. A haunting quaver to the world. Your mind feels viscous, your body watery. The lights have dimmed. The sense of the smell of ozone. AllemandeA greasy fingerprint on…
Thanksgiving in Kindergarten: Salt Lake City, Utah, 1996
Hilary BrownWe grew up in a city named for water we could not drink.Our ancestors walked for miles to finda home that would not burn so easily,then stumbled on salt, which meant preservation. In 1996 we…
Mormon Tea
Emily UpdegraffI.They leftDenmark’s ripening wheat fields,crossed moss-covered pathsof England and Wales, forsookthe saturated airof Tennessee to build homeson ground glazed in the open-air kilnof the western sun.Called by God,they did not think to askfirst peoples for…
Collect for a Family Friend Killed in a Sabbath Morning House Fire
Tyler ChadwickListen the Out Loud version of this poem here. O, preening angels, voyeursof bright and burning things, of underbuilding flare-ups andflaming caved-in tinder, whose breathing—plumed, infernal,unforgiving—sweltered her last daybreak with unholy invocation—Please, if mercy be,…
Earthen Lavers Tyler Chadwick, Litany with WingsScott Hales, Hemingway in Paradiseand Other Mormon PoemsElizabeth Pinborough, The Brain’s Lectionary:Psalms and Observations
J.S. AbsherA few years ago, William Logan wrote, “Poetry has long been a major art with a minor audience.”[1] We could more accurately call it a major art with many minor audiences grouped, like the poets,…
My Body in the Temple
Darlene YoungListen the Out Loud version of this poem here. Halfway through the session, I become awareof a full bladder and nothing else.All that is holy is eclipsedby flesh. I pant in claustrophobiabetween the lady who…
Like a Prayer—Phormium tenax
Tyler ChadwickListen the Out Loud version of this poem here. How that late sabbath afternoon you sat cross-legged on their lawn, Elder S at your side, the couple just across, their backs to her late summer…
anamnesis: confronting God in the flesh
Anita TannerListen the Out Loud version of this poem here. 1. a patient’s accountof medical history,a reiteration of conditionscontracted by mortality,a form of proud flesh’sgranulation over a wound,a raised tissue massdelineating impact to sayhere is pain,…
Osmond Ward Chapel, Now Demolished
Anita TannerSometimes from the thresholdof these doorswe are greeted by another self,another worldwe wish to worship, incarnationthe tithe we offerfor such a crossing: we, seeking the divine,the divine leaning toward us,fading coal of memory igniting into…
Portrait of Agnes
Sarah EmmettListen the Out Loud version of this poem here. Stern little lady,ancestor in an oval frame,I like the way your shoulders slopeand your fingers dangleover the book and the carpetbag skirt.I like the way your…
Cemetery Walk
Sarah EmmettListen the Out Loud version of this poem here. It was somewhere around here, I think.Where they buried that baby,yeah, the one I told you about.No, not by the pioneer obelisksa wife for each sidefresh…
The Garden I Know
Sarah EmmettListen the Out Loud version of this poem here. In his artistic agony,diamond drops of bloodcovered Christ’s chiseled body,sacred sweat shimmeredin the light of the Passover moon.The Son of God, an altarpiece,in serene pain and…
Third Place: Penitent Magdalene, Donatello
Anita TannerShock of agingin a wooden sculpture—more than yearsdisplayed here,her gauntand weathered faceportraying time had its way—sunken eyes,broken teeth,parched and haggard lips. The cathedralof her handsforms a gothic archbelow her chinsuggesting prayer,her frail body embracedby heavy…
First Place: His Own Hand
J.S. AbsherI desire to be to the Eternal Goodness what his own hand is to a man.—Theologica Germanica i. What the Right Hand Is Take my right hand—the index finger crookedfrom a long-forgotten break; the dintwhere…
Second Place: Our Lady of Innumerable Appellatives
Dayna PattersonListen to the Out Loud version of the poem here. Enter into Her gates with thanksgivingand into Her courts with praise.—Psalm 100:4 1.Swirl of gold gleaming in our daughters’ eyes.Amen. Whorl of cirrostratus haloingthe moon.…
Saint George, Utah
Millie TullisListen to the audio version here. Not named for the Saintwho met the princess bythe lake and with her girdleleashed the dragon. Who killed it for the people’s conversion.Whose chapel in Windsorholds a part of…
Bear One Another’s Burdens
Lorren LemmonsGetting there
Millie TullisPaper Route
Scott StensonPodcast version of this piece. Sabbath afternoon in summer sometimes feelslike those February mornings I’d wedge thedamp butt of each newspaper in friend’s saddlepack clouded gray with his indistinguishablefingerprints. Their buckling mouths a smudgedbouquet of…
From the Angels’ Perch at Mount Moriah
Elizabeth PinboroughPodcast version of this piece. Scene: Thicket for a Slaughter We have seenbets, contests— only the greatones sent tospar with God: father, son,sacrifice. Scene: An Examination Question:the brain, a tangledbramble—the fire and the knife,a fearsomebinding.…
Recreating Abraham’s Star Charts
Elizabeth PinboroughPodcast version of this piece. I pause on the path, drop my sticks,and bend to read them like runes.Tell the stars, They said. So I do daily— I chart their breathless turning asI gather berries…
Addendum to Jacob Sorensen’s Patriarchal Blessing
Hugo N. OlaizPodcast version of this piece. I don’t know, Jake,why Dad asked me to drive you there,but I did hear every word Brother Allen said,and here’s a few he skipped: Our Heavenly Fatheris pleased with your…
Ministry of angles
Lisa Ottesen FillerupPodcast version of this piece. You who more than oncespelled angle when meaning angel,are now one—maybe both.A sharp line on white paperdriving hardand fastin another spacewhose numbersI do not know. YetIn the arithmeticof our individual…
Morning Light
Estee Arts CrenshawPodcast version of this piece. That dark matter that fashioned us, days laterMade light by command, what voice, I wonderCould shake atoms into place and stir invisibleWaves through the air, as something we cannot seeAllows…
Tender Rills
Elizabeth PinboroughPodcast version of this piece. If Gods are poeming Kolob,if I am poeming God, if we arepoems to each other, A word is more than a destinationthan a path, than a map. A word is…
Prism
Robert A. ReesPodcast version of this piece. They had agreedthat if she were seenthe boy wouldn’t be believedin seeing them.Nevertheless, she was there,her iridescent spherea coronaover their column of sun,reflecting,refractingthe morning.The flowers turned to her,the green of…
God the Mother Speaks of Salt
Dayna PattersonPodcast version of this piece. I baptized you before you were born. After, rubbed you clean.I’ll cleanse all your wounds in season. You’ve forgottenhow to savor my holy. If you seek,you’ll find these veins run…
God the Mother Speaks of Xenia
Dayna PattersonPodcast version of this piece. I AM the children sleeping under mylar in a Texas warehouse.I AM the fathers lifting toddlers to their shoulders on our journeyto safety and rest. I’m safety and rest. But…
Benediction
Neal ChandlerPodcast version of this piece. Here’s the truth: My faith remainstepid. Lukewarm as summer rain. Spew-worthy. A compass in fragments, I saved pieces: base plate, arrow, needle.Reassembly is beyond me. Millennia ago, I stood on…
Book of Life, for Timothy Liu
Dayna PattersonPodcast version of this piece. If there is a literal bookon a plinth of filigreed gold, and an angelstanding as sentinel at heaven’s needle-eye entrance, who’s not to sayour names appear etchedon its pages, un-erasable.…
God the Mother Speaks of Hearts
Dayna PattersonPodcast version of this piece. won’t you agree with me the heart’s a glorious organ moon jelly a ghost heart throbbing in oceanlily bulb an earth heart humming undergroundbear a furred heart curled up in cave’s dark I’m…
Mothersong
Bonnie Shiffler-OlsenPodcast version of this piece. Let us amass our wandering kicks, wondering in awe at thesecostumes her womb hath made. O Motherof the sacred hearts, sing your peasant lullabies before our every sleep. Ring like…
creation story
Maren LovelandPodcast version of this piece. He makes the light and the primeval oceans and the rapturous Word, but I have the dirt the ground the chthonic underbelly and sustenance of all. I have the jewel-toned…
Big Bang, with Sternutation and Seer Stones
Tyler ChadwickPodcast version of this piece. i. In the beginning, Mother worked yleminto a loose sphere. A swirl of stray particles, stirred by the breeze blown through herstudio window, circled her workbench, tickled her nose. She…
Ascension, after John Donne
Kathryn SonntagPodcast 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…
Acoustic
Gerrit van DykPodcast version of this piece. My devotion never translates to my fingers.There is something lost.The scaly chaff of my heart opens my lungs.I pinch my pic like a quillwhat can I scrawl in the dusk?…
Hymn to a Maple
Gerrit van DykPodcast version of this piece. Your inverted slant is an acute notewest to east in the shaded sunrisesurrounded as you are by that moatof rocks and weeds, dry as a chalk line. One Goliath’s push…
Salt Lake City, 1957
Judy Darke DeloguPodcast version of this piece. Sunday morning in Salt Lake City, whenfaithful Mormons flock to worshipat neighborhood wards, my father’ssecret psychiatric patients slip insidethe back door of 508 East South Temple,for fifty-five-minute appointments.A nurse impersonator,…
Color
David K. IsomPodcast version of this piece. Morning at homelistening to silenceand a solo cello,caressing old books,fog outside,fire inside. Treesin crystal veils,fog-doused sun,Earth’s palette replacedby soot and chalk. No color.Only grays,darker or lighter.No real black.No clean white.…
Book of Mormon Poetry James Goldberg, A Book of Lamentations
Edward WhitleyA few years ago I was researching poems written about the Book of Mormon. I had read Eliza R. Snow’s “The Lamanite” (adapted from a poem she wrote before becoming a Latter-day Saint titled “The…
Young Gods
Blaire OstlerSlipping off a Sunday dress—hoping you’ll join me and undress.No more dark slacks and white shirts,corruption of innocence tends to hurt.It’s worship too irreverent for pews,forgive my transgression against a holy muse,but, trust me, crisis…
Casual Violence in Sunday School
Gregory BrooksJohn the Baptist was a hairy scorpionwho skittered out from the wildernessand began stinging folksuntil they saw the Holy Ghost. He molted like all prophets do,lived in caves, under rocks,until the predators found him—took his…
The Leper
Gregory BrooksAn armadillo dug up the grassin my parents’ yard last year— the kind that bounce buckshotoff their back and carry leprosy. If only I could do the same:materialize armor, lumber along. I could curl up…
Bi-Bestiary
Gregory BrooksI suppose only the animals that paired offand shuffled up the rampsurvived the flood. So this Bishop, pointing outthat we would rather flirtthan marry—well, he built an Ark out of the treeslining the church property.He…
Daffodils
Alixa BrobbeyYour lips are melting petals,Wilting into my mouth.My tears not clearEnough to revive them. When you learn to fly,Will they forget to dance?Lose their maypole eyelashesAnd languish, lonely, withWings cut. And yet,I pray, make me…
Created in His Image
Alixa BrobbeyI.The first lie they told me wasBlonde Jesus. Thick Belinda locks,And blue ocean eyes.He hangs on the cross, whiteLike a tender lamb, orWhite like a lily flower,Or like white snowSmothering brown ground. II.The second lie…
“I Cannot Describe Salt”: Elizabeth Willis, Poets in Exile, and the Church Invisible in the Age of Pandemic
Jacob BenderEver since Socrates banished poetry in Book X of Plato’s Republic with a flippant “if . . . poetry can show any reason for her existence in a well-governed state, we would gladly admit her,”[1] Western poets…
Review: Poetry as Ceremony Tacey M. Atsitty, Rain Scald
Michael P. TaylorO Holy People, show me how I am human,how I am soon to sliver. Stay please, for womanor man’s sake. Succor me from a telestial state,where I long to be self-luminous in a slateof granite.…
Candy Dish Sonnet
Tacey M. AtsittyAlready the heart-shaped dish on my end tablelies combed bare: long strips dug out============== a cleaning out============== a scratch in grain, table scraps lain out so comely, meaning to loveor hold cacao or almonds—those striaeof…
Lacing
Tacey M. AtsittyVII. Sometimes I kneel down to play a gamefrom my childhood. Only then can I feelgrains of gravel, each pebble digs in so real.Sometimes I act as though I am the same,a young girl, rope…
Review: Dayna Patterson, If Mother Braids a Waterfall
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Theric JepsonParousia
A. I. ChristensenShe says she was eating or opening a window or just walkingdully along, and always had been, but tonight there might befew angels. These things. Our dogwagging across the foreground, the porchthat still needs fixing…
Matriarchal Blessing
Kyle BondYour hands were on my head first. No formal ceremony. I was an infantand shouting clouds trundled and thundered,atmospheric pressure strangled my stubborn ears refusing airflow.The blue chair in the living room rocked,my cries received…
Grasshoppers in the Jar of the World
J.S. AbsherThe jar is silent because it is full of praise.The grasshoppers are loud because they, too,are full of praise, clicking as they fly. The grasshoppers jump, but the jar is too high.They try to climb,…
Praying on Gravel
J.S. AbsherNot yet March, already weedsbring me to my kneeswith trowel and bare fingers. Under the loblollythe hellebore are in bloom,a periwinkle or two. The weeds are in the white gravelof the walk. My son has…
Until You Come
J.S. AbsherTaipei, ’97. I walk past side-streetvendors selling lychee nuts and blackrice cakes, to an acre of bare dirt,concrete pylons lifting a cloverleaf.A grizzled man by a beat-up Buickthrows gobbets of meat from the trunkto a…
James Goldberg and Ardis Parshall, Song of Names: A Mormon Mosaic
(author)His Twelve Points of the Scout Law (Grandpa Fesses Up)
R. A. ChristmasSunni Brown Wilkinson. The Marriage of the Moon and the Field
Elizabeth Garcia“To speak to Moses, God / put a stone in his mouth, put on / a sackcloth of verbs (want, need), / cleared his throat. Cried out” (3). Sunni Brown Wilkinson this way begins her collection The…
Karen Anderson’s Excavation of Ghosts Karin Anderson. Before Us Like a Land of Dreams
Lauren MatthewsMark 5:9—“My name is Legion: for we are many”—opens Karin Anderson’s masterwork Before Us Like a Land of Dreams. Anderson lyrically pools her ancestral narrative in sweeping loops, eddying history, religion, and landscape. Ghosts speak elusive,…
Becky, Not God
Henry Landon Milesset the hour for their reunion.She’s under the greencanopy in the closed coffin. She signed away her body,except for her skin,so her hip bones might be recycled into screws to repair broken anklesor wedges to…
The Stars Saw God
Chris A. PeckI found God huddled in my father’s insanity.There beneath the layersof confusion—as to why none of us saw thespinning ball or the parade outside—I saw his vacant expression shine out likeGod-rays through the clouds.Clarity in…
Daryl Prays, The Snake River, and Insomnia
Tamara Pace ThomsonDaryl Prays How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! Lamentations 4:1 At fourteen, Daryl cut across an empty lotbehind a brick pharmacywhere he had picked up his mom’s pills(linden…
Genesis Chiasmus
Luisa PerkinsIn the Big Ending,My son used to sayWhen I read him the Genesis board book.Which was perfect, I thought.Such a start must surely have followedAn ending that was big.What brought that ending on? And whatGave…
Born Again
Christopher BissettBecause I did not fit a second timein the womb of my mother,I was born of my father instead. He held my arm to haul me from the waterand with the other, squared it to…
Women’s Blessing
(author)Issue of Blood
Twila NeweyExplaining God the Mother to My Father
Terresa WellbornSelf Portrait in Which I Fail to Hide My Daddy Issues From Google
Allie SpikesWilling the Storm
Holly WelkerOn Women and Priesthood Power
(author)Mother’s Blessing
Mette Ivie HarrisonReason Stares
Emily Harris AdamsA Found Poem
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonThe “Blackblue Heartguts” of Trees Brooke Larson. Pleasing Tree.
Amy TakaboriThird Watch
Jonathon EganVernal
Jonathon EganDry Tree
Dennis ClarkTrue Religion
Michael HicksThe Agreement
Michael HicksThe Four Stanzas of the Apocalypse
Michael HicksAdvent: Moose in Moonlight
Anita TannerCreek Skating
Anita TannerBridegroom
Dennis ClarkJesus Christ
Tyler ClarkNew & Everlasting
Theric JepsonSweater
Theric JepsonThe Moldau in a Utah Living Room
Simon Peter EggertsenThe Mormon Peace Gathering
Dennis ClarkSunday School
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonJudas
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonDevotion
Terresa WellbornProdigal Daughter
Rachel Hunt SteenblikWhat Ashmae Taught Me
Rachel Hunt SteenblikCircles and Lines
Dalene RowleyJanuary 21, 2019
Elizabeth PinboroughOur Lady of the Temple
Dayna PattersonPrayers for the Altars
Linda Hoffman KimballFriday Morning Shift
Linda Hoffman KimballSkin of Garments
Melodie JacksonMy New Temples
Mette Ivie HarrisonThen and Now
Cheryl L. BrunoLimen
Emily BrownRitual
Emily BrownPlacenta
William DeFordDream Psalm
William DeFordWalking Back to the ‘70s
R. A. ChristmasTalitha koum
Tyler ChadwickOn Cherubim and a Flaming Sword by J. Kirk Richards
Tyler ChadwickReview: It’s Lonely at the Top Ryan Shoemaker. Beyond the Lights.
Alison BrimleyReview: Mother, May We? Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. Edited by Tyler Chadwick, Dayna Patterson, and Martin Pulido.
Gail Turley HoustonThe Older Covenant
Kathryn SonntagThe Tree at the Center
Kathryn SonntagOne Thousand Two Hundred Sixty Days
Kathryn SonntagThe Pioneer Woman, St. George
Kevin KleinSelf-Portrait of Mormon Middle Child as Isabella
Dayna PattersonAfter the Curtain Falls, Isabella Speaks in Achromatics
Dayna PattersonReview: “Twisted Apples”: Lance Larsen Takes on Prose Poetry Lance Larsen. What the Body Knows
Darlene YoungRaking
Melissa Youngthe fog
Elisabeth RichardsonSoft
Kevin KleinA Better Country
Kevin KleinPoema de Halloween, 2001
Hugo N. OlaizAlpha
Douglas Summers StaySonnet—For Solstice
Theric JepsonAgency of all that matters
Robert J. FredericksonChoose Your Own Belief: Of Sharks, Art, & God
Sherilyn OlsenForgotten Birds
Robert A. ReesDomestiku
Theric JepsonThe Goodness of Created Things
Susan Elizabeth HoweIf Joseph Smith Had Been Born in California
Theric JepsonAs If Nothing Matters
Chris A. PeckFaith
Natalie Shaw EvjenAt Least
C. Dylan BassettTrevor at the Fountain
Simon Peter EggertsenGrand Canyon, North Rim
Terresa WellbornAjalon Moon
Sarah E. PageThe Holy Ghost in Polyhymnia’s Closet
Elizabeth GarciaThe Holy Ghost in Melpomene’s Closet
Elizabeth GarciaEcho of Boy
Darlene YoungNosebleed (A Mormon Pilgrimage)
Tyler ClarkChristus
Laura Hilton CranerThe Grammar of Quench
Ronald WilcoxNot the Truman Show
R. A. ChristmasSolomon the Wise
Riley BassettAverted Vision
Joanna EllsworthElegy / Prayer
C. Dylan BassettTrue Ideas
C. Dylan BassettMy Sadness
Susan Elizabeth HoweThe Skin of the Story
Susan Elizabeth HoweThe Flock
Les BlakeWords
Jamie NaylorEight Visions of the First
Bonnie Shiffler-OlsenDialogue 49.3 (Fall 2016): 151–155
Shiffler-Olsen turns Joseph Smtih’s first-person First Vision accounts into poetry.
Temple
Mark BrownKeeping Faith
Warren HatchOctober Above Trial Lake
Warren HatchStony Places
Sarah E. PageMy Sister Once Died
Jenny WebbGrief
Mark BrownThe Trail
Stephen CarterBaptism
Christinah CrossOrdinary and Profane Poems
Ronald WilcoxTropical Butterfly House
Dayna PattersonKill the Poets
Emma Lou ThayneProphet by the Sea
Phyllis BarberMormon Conversions
Laura HamblinFrom Utah Poems: To Elias
Stan AndersonBoy Diving Through Moss — Poetry
Dennis SmithMental Gas — Poetry
Eliza R. SnowNew Acts of Poetry: Space in the Sage ; What You Feel, I Share ; Speak to Me
Mary Lythgoe BradfordOn the Precipice: Three Mormon Poets: Barbed Wire: Poetry and Photographs of the West
Edward A. GearySacrament of Terror: Violence in the Poetry of Clinton F. Larsen
Thomas D. SchwartzThe Poetic Mystique: The Grandmother Tree by Marilyn McKeen Miller Brown ; Mahanga: Pacific Poems by Vernice Wineera Pere
Veneta Leatham NielsenNew Voices, New Songs: Contemporary Poems by Mormon Women
Linda SillitoePersephone ; The Old Penitentiary, Boise
Jeanette CloughHold
Emma Lou ThayneRepapering the Kitchen
Randall L. HallGratitude
Dianne Dibb ForbisMemory’s Duty
Ronald WilcoxBronzed Cadences
LaBerta BoboThe Golden Chain
Michael R. Collings“Moonbeams From a Larger Lunacy”: Poetry in the Reorganization
Paul EdwardsDialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 22–31
This study addresses poetry within the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and defines an RLDS poet as someone who belongs to the RLDS church and who has published poetry in some form or other.
The New Mormon Poetry: The Seventh Day by Lewis Home
Dennis ClarkStill Sounds of Winter
Dawn Baker BrimleyCharm for a Sick Child
Linda SillitoeAnother Birth
Linda SillitoeFishers
Robert A. ReesExpatriate
Jim WalkerBorn Again
Mary Lythgoe BradfordOil Upon Oil
Brooke Elizabeth SmithHow Much for the Earth? A Suite of Poems: About a Time for Considering
Emma Lou ThayneUnfinished Sestina for the Secretary of Defense
Kathy EvansThe High Price of Poetry
Glenn Willett ClarkReturning
Kathy EvansDiaries
Joyce Ellen DavisDavid and Bathsheba
Michael R. CollingsFathering
Jim WalkerThe Interview
John BennionBenediction
Neal ChandlerLightning Barbs
Marden J. ClarkOne Year
Margaret R. MunkAs Winter Comes On
Helen Walker JonesThis Is My Body
Marden J. ClarkAll My Silent Midnight Hours
Lisa Bolin HawkinsNote: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web format of article as a courtesy. Please note that there may be unintentional differences from the printed version. For citational and biographical purposes, please use the printed version…
Grains of Life: Fragments of a Sonnet Cycle
Helen Candland StarkSonnet for Spring
Linda SillitoeFor the Bishop’s Wife
Kathy EvansGrandmother Envisions Her Own Death
Helen Walker JonesWinter Burial
Carol Clark OttesenSeasoning
C. Thomas AsplundNativity
Kathy EvansThey Have Closed the Church My Father Helped Build
Anita TannerEvenings: His Church Calling
Anita TannerChristmas in Utah
Leslie NorrisCancun Beach, Mexico
Carol Clark OttesenSons
Connie Hendrickson JorgensenRecollections from an Ex
Karen Marguerite MoloneyFor Brother de Mik
Dian SaderupLulu: On the Death of a Sister
Frederick G. WilliamsDiscouragement
Frederick G. WilliamsStones; The Salutation; The Problem; Grandmother, Grandmother, Grandmother; Bishop
Loretta Randall SharpFeliz Navidad
C. L. ChristensenOur Way
Paris AndersonLuggage
Dixie Lee PartridgePruned
Kathie Rampton RockwoodTo Watch a Daughter Die
Kathie Rampton RockwoodPrayer of a Novice Rebel
Kathie Rampton RockwoodBodies
Michael R. CollingsA Life Well-Shared: So Far: Poems by Margaret Rampton Munk
Mary Lythgoe BradfordWinton Night Walks
Steven L. PeckAugust 6
Marden J. ClarkTo a Modern Isaac
C. L. ChristensenNavel
Anita TannerThe Oldest Son Leaves for Nagoya
Jim WalkerBurial Service
Jim WalkerFor Bonnie
Randal AllredHere’s the Church
Kathy EvansFailed Friendship
E. Victoria Grover-SwankLesser Voices
Sherwin W. HowardSonnet on Life’s Dangers
Linda SillitoeThe Lord’s Table
Timothy LiuTwo Fishermen in Hong Kong
Timothy LiuThree Poems for My Mother
Philip WhiteEarly Through Winter
Jill HemmingPure Thin Bones
Lisa Madsen De RubilarThree Generations of Mormon Poetry: A zipper of haze; Tinder; Christmas Voices
R. A. ChristmasInadvertent Disclosure: Autobiography in the Poetry of Eliza R. Snow
Maureen Ursenbach BeecherGrandpa
Jill HemmingPassion Poems: How Much for the Earth? by Emma Lou Thayne
Linda SillitoeA Lot to Like: Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems edited by Eugene England and Dennis Clark
Miriam B. MurphyOne of the Women
Dixie Lee PartridgeThe Slow Way Home
Loretta Randall SharpDeity
Anita TannerDaddy Hung Me Out
A. R. MitchellThe Blood in My Veins
Dorothy K. WheelerIf I Had Children
May SwensonI Can Wait For
Holly WelkerHeartbreak Hill
R. A. ChristmasThe Next Weird Sister Builds a Dog Run
Laura HamblinTransformation
Jerrilyn BlackCall Before the Obituary
Jill HemmingIsland Spring
Philip WhiteInnocence
Holly WelkerI Consider Jonah’s Whale
Paris AndersonBurn Ward
Ellen KartchnerSisters
Jerrilyn BlackBeing Baptized for the Dead, 1974
Lance LarsenIn the Back Lot at Hillview Manor
Mary Ann LoseeBaptism: As Light as Snow
Michael R. CollingsOne Sunday’s Rain (After Word of My Father’s Illness)
Dixie Lee PartridgeThe Dark Gray Morning
Tom RileyCure
Michael GrayThe Virgin Mary Confronts Mary and Magdala
Richard ShortenHow Could We Have Known
Laura HamblinThe Perseids
Philip WhiteMechanics
Mary Ann LoseeThe Hero Woman
Karla BennionPatchwork
Michael R. CollingsLosing Lucy
Karla BennionNickel Girls
Holly WelkerOver Coffee, 600 B.C.
Melanie D. ShumwaySong of the Old/Oldsongs: Only Morning in Her Shoes: Poems about Old Women edited by Leatrice Lifshitz
Karen Marguerite MoloneyOvum
Susan Elizabeth HoweThe Good Life
Edward L. HartJackrabbits
William PowleyWaiting
Mark Edward KoltkoA Vision of Judas
Timothy LiuTwo Sisters Visit Dieppe
Mary Ann LoseeCelebrations: Things Happen: Poems of Survival by Emma Lou Thayne
Susan Elizabeth HoweWhen I Swam for the Utah Valley Dolphins
William PowleyThe Mistake of the Psycholinguists
Karla BennionArt and Half a Cake
M. Shayne BellMy Mormon Grandmother
Kit G. LinfordConey Island Hymn: Shore
Glen NelsonThe 20/20 Leap
William PasseraEcclesiastical Check
Richard WimanWoman Bathing ; Authority
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonHands
Philip WhiteMissionary Court
Lance LarsenLate
Jerrilyn BlackRelativity
Ronald WilcoxReturn
Anita TannerManna in the Desert
Tom RileyVariation on a Love Letter
Holly WelkerThe Book Handed Her
Anita TannerWinter Fast Offerings
Lance LarsenEntire Unto Himself
Michael R. CollingsThe Pulpit
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonYellow Hair
Michael GraySestina for the Coming Fall
Anneliese WarnickSaint Theresa and the Lepress
Kathryn KimballWhat El Salvador Meant to a Three-year-old
B. J. FoggBeth-lehem
Richard TiceNight Myths
Dixie Lee PartridgeNotes for a Son, 19, Living Abroad
Dixie Lee PartridgeSnowy Night
Lisa Bolin HawkinsBecoming a Writer
Derk KoldewynBreadcrumbs
Dixie Lee PartridgeExercising the Priesthood
Derk KoldewynPostcard
Holly WelkerLitany
Philip WhiteHousehold of Faith
Dana Haight CattaniGod With Us
Philip WhiteA Body That Expands
Holly WelkerDouble Exposure
Lewis HorneSacrament Prayer
Lance LarsenBrando
Holly WelkerWarren Travels With His Father
Michael R. CollingsDecoration Day
Jillyn CarpenterDay Dreams
Karen Marguerite MoloneySole Makers
Russell MooreheadThe Man Without Sin
H. L. MilesLancashire Saint Dies
Rita BowlesLeave of Absence
Dixie Lee PartridgeResurrection
Derk KoldewynOur Fecundity
David PaxmanFor My Father, 1934-1990
Marni Asplund-CampbellMama and Daddy Standin’ By
Paul SwensonIn Passing To Her Fathers
Warren HatchBean Counting
Michael J. NobleI Have Learned 5 Things
Elaine ChristensenAspens
Don W. JenkinsMagi
Pamela Porter HamblinCommentary
Donna BernhiselIreland
Brent PaceTo Joseph of Nazareth: Patron Saint of Fathers Dispossessed
Harlow Soderborg ClarkHobby Horses
Lance LarsenMovements Giving Off Light
Dixie Lee PartridgeMummy Pendulum
David PaxmanSariah
Marni Asplund-CampbellJesus is Coming
Brent PaceMarcus
Brent PaceSecrets under the Surface: Crazy for Living: Poems by Linda Sillitoe
Emma Lou ThayneThe Invisible Woman
Holly WelkerGoing Dark
Anita TannerServing the Papers
Lance LarsenHis Sermon
Anita TannerNestling
Michael R. CollingsFor the Girl Who Saw Her Mother Cold
Marni Asplund-CampbellA Courtship
Joseph FisherOn X-ing
Marden J. ClarkMy Mama’s Hands
Donna BernhiselStorytime
Philip WhiteEarly Winter
Anita TannerClean
Donna BernhiselIn a Far Land
M. Shayne BellPilgrimage
Joanna BrooksBasilica
Jerry JohnstonBathing a Child
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonThe Violent Woman
Joseph FisherNaked
Lance LarsenCap Meets the Prophet Brigham
Derk Koldewyn1844
Philip WhiteSnows
Marden J. ClarkThe Time Traveler Comes to Cana
M. Shayne BellMarch Children
Nancy Hanks BairdNegative Space
Paul SwensonRazor Sharp
Marden J. Clark1948
Elaine ChristensenThe Three Boats
Brian EvensonWeight
R. A. ChristmasHospital Healing
Linda SillitoeSleeping on Wood
Nancy Hanks BairdRELEASE: A Moment
Dixie Lee PartridgeThe Freeway
Lee RobisonHow Things Look from the Other Side of the Lake
R. A. ChristmasCereal Polygamy
R. A. ChristmasBrides of the Afternoon
Paul SwensonSlant Sonnet for Melissa
Linda SillitoeGhost Month
Holly WelkerReply to: “You Are a Spiritual Person”
Carol Clark OttesenToni’s Song
Paul SwensonBecause Last Night Was Friday Night
Holly WelkerSaturday: One Version (Fourth Week of an Unidentified Illness)
Dixie Lee PartridgeThe Prophet’s Dream
Brian EvensonWhat Remains
Anita TannerAristocrats
Robert L. JonesHis Faith-Promoting Story
R. A. ChristmasBread: A Returning
Dixie Lee PartridgeThe Statue of Brigham Young at South Temple and Main, Salt Lake City
Michael HicksI Will
Allen W. BurchHemmed In
Michael J. NobleA Killing Frost
Timothy LiuGeorge
Lee RobisonDescending Order
Dixie Lee PartridgeUntitled
Peter Bloch-HansenFall Weekend at Rehoboth Beach
Peter RichardsonIn a Far Land
M. Shayne BellThey Eat Dogs in China
Timothy LiuGaining Darkness
Anita TannerAmerican Christians Visit Mt. Nebo
Lee RobisonThe Miro Exhibit at MoMA: Dec. 21, 1993
Peter RichardsonPieta
Nancy Hanks BairdShe’iina Yazhi
Kimberly Hamblin Hart“I Do Remember How It Smelled Heavenly”: Mormon Aspects of May Swenson’s Poetry
Susan Elizabeth HoweBy Extension
Michael J. NobleAugust
Philip WhiteThe Greening
Emma Lou ThayneOrigami Birds
David RockProperties of Water
Nancy BairdSeconds Coming
Casualene MeyerAwake to the Ineffable: Some Would Call It Kundalini
Emma Lou ThayneTo Sleep with the Ineffable: Inviting My Sweet Informants
Emma Lou ThayneThe Soon-to-hibernate Bear Addresses His Public
Karl C. Sandberg“White” of “Pure”: Five Vignettes
Douglas CampbellDialogue 29.4 (Winter 1996): 119–135
The Book of Mormon variously uses “white” and “pure” in the same verse in different editions. This article traces the history of those changes, who was behind them, and why.
Leaving
Stanton Harris HallBlack Moroni
Paul SwensonLife-line
Megan Thayne HeathSilver Footprints
Emma Lou ThayneAlaska Girlhood
R. F. BartholomewWe Dress for Armageddon
Elizabeth VisickKick and Muff
David SeiterShorn
Michael J. NoblePassing On, Holiday
David SeiterFire in the Water
Stanton Harris HallOasis
Linda SillitoeDesert Bloom
Megan Thayne HeathStake Mission
R. A. ChristmasKayenta
Bryan WatermanMoon Phases: Childhood
Dixie Lee PartridgeMountain Turn-out: Week After My Father’s Funeral
Dixie Lee PartridgeFather Sky/Mother Earth
Cathy A. Gileadi-SweetHow She Comes
MaryJan MungerFall is the Wrong Analogy
Lee RobisonMartyrs
Timothy LiuOn the Death by Cancer of Someone Too Young
Emma Lou ThayneWoodwork
Ken RainesTake These Depositions
Casualene MeyerStraw
Cathy A. Gileadi-SweetBirthday Dreaming
Megan Thayne Heath“Watercress Grows Best in Running Water”
Dixie Lee PartridgeLily Foot
Anita TannerTemplum: A Place Thought of as Holy
Stanton Harris HallAfter a Late Night, Waiting
Dixie Lee PartridgeOut of the Night: Childness
Emma Lou ThayneSacrament Hymn
Lee RobisonFrom the Land of Nod
Timothy LiuHoly Sonnet for Mother’s Day
Judith B. CurtisHistory
Philip WhiteA Prayer Addressed to Lord of Death
Satyam S. MoortyMormontage
Addie LacoeAllelujah
Joy K. YoungLong Distance
Linda SillitoeAt Fifty-Five
R. A. ChristmasAlder and Maple in Molting
Stanton Harris HallCreations: Mississippi
Casualene MeyerMultiply and Replenish
Casualene MeyerSesquicentennial Pioneer Commemoration Speech
Robert ReynoldsSoft Sculpture
Mary Lythgoe BradfordBasic Training
Lewis HorneShe and He: Alternatives
Lewis HorneLectures on Death at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Pamela Porter HamblinOn the Fringe — The Singles’ Ward (The Appeal of the Foyer)
Bradford FillmoreWidow’s Weeds
Mary Lythgoe BradfordThistle Field
Casualene MeyerStraight Up
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonMiguel
Peter RichardsonOne Method of Hope
Todd Robert PetersenLucifer’s Obit.
Brent D. CorcoranBegotten of the Ash
Bryant H. McGillJoseph Loved His Women
Mary Lythgoe BradfordTo a Cymbidium Orchid
Michael R. CollingsFashion Show
Lewis HorneOrdinary Light
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonFact of my Life
Linda SillitoeWe Write What We Want to Know
Anita TannerMy Father Comes to Me
Brent PaceTo a College Friend Killed by a Drunk Driver
Carol Clark OttesenDrama Queen
Brent PaceNight Fires
Brent PaceWomen are the Keepers of Secrets
Mary Lythgoe BradfordA Name and a Blessing
Carol Clark OttesenLuke 7:37
Kathryn KimballCourting
Peter RichardsonIf the Din of Cities Makes the Moon
M. Shayne BellDragging Fanny
Paul SwensonAfterward
Dixie Lee PartridgeAbove the Estuary
Dixie Lee PartridgeMetaphysics Over Lunch
Linda SillitoeCaught Gull, Plowing
Derk KoldewynCompanionship
Derk KoldewynClay
Philip WhiteThe First Christmas Eve at Home
N. Andrew SpackmanPracticing at Sunrise
Joy K. YoungNatural Symmetry
Ken RainesNight Thunder at the Cabin
Emma Lou ThayneMilitary Funeral in a High Hills Cemetery
Robert L. JonesDay Music
Joy K. YoungWild Things
Lisa GarfieldPlain and Simple
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonTemple Square — Past and Present
Delbert W. EllsworthReclamation
Ken RainesGrandma Comes for Me
Emma Lou ThayneThin Ice
Ken RainesFertility
Carol Clark OttesenNaked
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonHop Hornbeam
R. A. ChristmasFrom Under Ground
Lisa GarfieldPlanting Day
Quinn WarnickTrajectory at the End of Winter
Emma Lou ThayneRussell
Philip WhiteJesus Lost
Paul SwensonThrough a Glass Darkly
E. Leon ChidesterUnder the Faultline
Philip WhiteThe Basic Tune of the Sparrow
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonThe Charity of Silence
Todd Robert PetersenThe By-pass
Lewis HorneSalt Lake Citations
Tim BehrendThin Ice
Ken RainesEmma’s Anguish
Emma Lou ThayneJoseph to Emma
Emma Lou ThayneWinter Dies
N. Andrew SpackmanIndian Summer
Holly WelkerPah Tempe
Sally StratfordParched
Amy E. JensenIn Riverdale
Linda SillitoeIn a Pueblo Indian Dwelling, Four-Corners
Amy E. JensenAnhedonia
Eugene EnglandNote: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web format of article as a courtesy. Please note that there may be unintentional differences from the printed version. For citational and biographical purposes, please use the printed version…
Learning to Disappear
Anita TannerSensing Spirits
Linda SillitoeAn Act of Faith
Michael R. CollingsMaps of Time
Ken RainesCommonplace Nightmares
Holly WelkerHistory of the Church — Part One
Robin RussellComing Home
David K. IsomLove is a Delicate Chain
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonBeing World
Joann FariasAbout My Conversion: Directions to a Nonbeliever
Anne Elizabeth BerbertForever Family
R. A. ChristmasPlenty
Emma Lou ThayneSpiritualizing the Organic
Anne Elizabeth BerbertIn the Kitchen on a Saturday Morning
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonLament for My Eyes in a Mirror
Ronald WilcoxThe Handing
Emma Lou ThayneProud Flesh
Anita TannerThe Rose Jar
Emma Lou ThayneOut in the Shop: In Memory of Grandpa
Candace KearlEncounter
Linda SillitoeBalsamic Vinegar
David K. IsomWedding Vows
Anne Elizabeth BerbertWithout Question
Emma Lou ThayneEve’s Psalm
Anne Elizabeth BerbertAspiration
Ken RainesSestina of the Martyrdom
Mark D. BennionOn a Morning After New Snow and a Winter of Healing Inside
Emma Lou ThayneThe Passing Lane
Ken RainesMiracle of Wood
Anita TannerChristmas Card from Siple Station, Antarctica
Danielle Beazer DubraskySyllabus
David K. IsomRemuneration
Adam C. BradfordWater Will
Lewis HorneTrouble in Eternity
Joann FariasNobody’s Grandpa
R. A. ChristmasThe Empty Cistern
Sally StratfordDisrobed
Sondra Sumsion SoderborgI Add Craig to My Prayers
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonGardner’s Song
Max FreemanRed’s Tire Barn Titans
Ken RainesArchaeopteryx
Ken RainesNight Light
Dixie Lee PartridgeChildhood Homes
Lewis HorneVicarious
Max FreemanLiahona
R. A. ChristmasChristian Spinning
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonListening to the Lord
Max FreemanBreach Birth: Aug. 20, 1891
Maureen ClarkUtah Territory, 1893
Maureen ClarkDelineation
Maureen ClarkAlive in Mormon Poetry
Danielle Beazer DubraskyPoetry Matters in Mormon Culture
Robert HughesThe Woman of Christlike Love
Emma Lou ThayneAlmost Pentecostal
Rita GrabowskiA Motherless House
Carol Lynn PearsonThe Middle Path, Colorized
Rita GrabowskiWe Were Not Consulted
Anita TannerThe Right Place
Sally StratfordNight Work Near Escalante
Dixie Lee PartridgeYou Owe Me
Joann FariasAntler People v. Womb People
Joann FariasContralto
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonThe Mothers’ Antlers
Joann FariasInheritance
Sally StratfordNothing We Needed to Know
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonCargoes II
Brent D. CorcoranWar Bride
(author)The Cedars of Lebanon
Robert A. ReesAladdin’s Lamp, March 4, 2003 on the eve of first strike in Iraq
Emma Lou ThayneMovement: Out of Doors, Out of Town, In Dangerous Times
Dixie Lee PartridgeGene, My Eternal Brother
Mary Lythgoe BradfordBlind Tears
Robert A. ReesHeart Mountain
Robert A. ReesResurrection
Lisa Madsen De RubilarYahrzeit
Anita TannerThe Meadow
Holly WelkerEve’s Offering
Jennifer LeeAfield
Anita TannerDeath to the Death of Poetry!: The Art is Alive and Kicking in Mormon Circles — and in Mainstream American Culture
Lisa Madsen De RubilarNov 1, 2001
Robin RussellTiananmen Square, Beijing, 1999
Carol Clark OttesenThe Riverbank, Late Winter: Living North
Dixie Lee PartridgeThe Fall of My Fiftieth Year
Dixie Lee PartridgeEighteen Thousand Sundowns
Dixie Lee PartridgeReading into Dusk
Dixie Lee PartridgeAmbulance Unit
Arthur Henry KingThe Banality of Evil
Arthur Henry KingPrayer for a Grandchild
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonBaptism
Robert A. ReesEl Cordero de Dios
Robert A. ReesA Spinster Physician Weeps While Speaking Her Sermon on Abstinence: A Sonnet without Rhyme
Lee RobisonTriptych-History of the Church
Robin RussellMartin in Me
Paul SwensonConfession
Mark Sheffield BrownThousand Springs
Mark Sheffield BrownSorrow and Song
Mark D. BennionWomen in a Time Warp: Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women, Edited by Sheree Maxwell Bench and Susan Elizabeth Howe
Danielle Beazer DubraskySalad for Two
Henry Landon MilesThe Good Shepherd
Craig WattsThe Peach
Patricia Gunter KaramesinesFamily Tree
Michael HicksFaith Healing
Michael HicksChurchgoers
Shelley GroseThe Orchid Grower
Patricia Gunter KaramesinesTriple A’s
Tom RileyThe Elect
Tom RileyScriptum Est
Tom RileyMy Brother’s Bed
Mark D. BennionMy Brother Was Buried Wearing a Red Jacket
Mark D. BennionBrooklyn: City of Churches
Russell MooreheadOld Rodeo Man
Lee RobisonCarol Took the Call
Henry Landon MilesEverlasting
Helen Walker JonesBliss
Helen Walker JonesThe Holding Room
Helen Walker JonesGuest Room
Helen Walker JonesSheep Ranch Near Hillspring
Helen Walker JonesOn Reading a Blank Page
David Clark KnowltonJonah in the Belly
Lon YoungChristmas Carol (Post-Christmas: 2005)
Dawn Baker BrimleyWashing Mother
Darlene YoungTonkas
Aaron GuileFruit
Tyler ChadwickOrisons
Marie BrianMouths
Nathan RobisonSummer Dam
Judy CurtisUpon the Face of the Water
Lon YoungReflections on Darkness and Light
Judy CurtisWhere Are the Horses?
Stanton Harris HallCompass
Mark D. BennionGraduation
Marilyn Bushman-Carltonpoetry on the ‘fridge door
Simon Peter EggertsenShowshoe Song
Caleb WarnockBorax
Ken RainesDining with the Devil: A Long Spoon: Poems by R. A. Christmas
Robert A. ReesQuantum Gospel: A Mormon Testimony
Ronald WilcoxAt the End of the Street Lies the Sky
Michael ParkerSonnet to Japanese Spring
Armand L. MaussBlack Handkerchief
Robert A. ReesWedding Flower
Robert A. ReesAfter My Brother’s Remission
Dixie Lee PartridgeSome with Shadows
Dixie Lee PartridgeWhile Planting Hollyhocks
Dixie Lee PartridgeYorick
Javen TannerThe Clearing
Stanton Harris HallI Teach Six-Year-Olds about Jesus in Sunday School
Deja EarleyHunter’s Visitation
Lee RobisonNephews
Lee RobisonPatriarchal Blessing
Darlene YoungTo My Teacher
Darlene YoungMoving the Story, with Conviction: On the LDS Church and the Marriage Amendment
Johanna WagnerLand’s End 1997
Don W. JenkinsThe Word
Mary Lythgoe BradfordOne Tree
Mary Lythgoe BradfordSpring Variations on a Theme by Lorenzo Snow
R. A. ChristmasMechanical Failures
Ken RainesThree-Legged Dog
Simon Peter EggertsenA Proposal
Evertt WilliamsCity of Brotherly Love
Jamie NaylorBeautiful Black Madonna of Czestochowa
Jamie NaylorCaught Up
Mark D. BennionEpithalamium
Krista H. RichardsonFidelity to Objects
Anita TannerNecktie
Anita TannerGrace
Annette WeedThe Local Police Report
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonJesus Was There
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonAlways with Us
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonCurious
Mark BirchChange
Mark BirchMan, dust
Joshua Stewart WeedMulti-level Marketing
R. A. ChristmasGlaucus
Patricia Gunter KaramesinesOne Tree Redux
Mary Lythgoe BradfordPierce the Veil
Cathy Gileadi WilsonSalt Lake City Cemetary: Jewish Section
P. D. MallamoWhite Rain (forty years since our meeting)
Dixie Lee PartridgeFlying Out
Dixie Lee PartridgeWhat Rocks Know
Clifton Holt JolleySober Child
Mark D. BennionNeshutan
Matthew Wynn HemmertA Shaker Sister’s Hymnal
Elizabeth PinboroughAbba: The Name of God
Anita TannerEtching
Randy AstleOn Losing My Cell Phone
Linda JefferiesOceanography
Mary Lythgoe BradfordRelinquishing
Mary Lythgoe BradfordGentle Dad
Mary Lythgoe BradfordSelf-Portrait as Burnt Offering
Holly WelkerA Perfect World
Reed RichardsThe Man with One Foot Outside of Hell
Reed RichardsHandmaid
Clifton Holt JolleyOur First Home Has Forgotten Us
James BestContingency #4: White Out
James BestFrom Outside the Settlement
Darren M. EdwardsUntitled
Russell MooreheadSheets
Russell Mooreheadthe god of small things
Reed RichardsThings Missed
Simon Peter EggertsenTime Being
Dixie Lee PartridgeIn this Version of Autumn
Dixie Lee PartridgeSisyphus
S. P. BaileyRipple Rock
S. P. BaileyThe Leg
Annette WeedInternal Affairs
Lizzie SkurnickBlue Glass
Lizzie SkurnickAbracadabra
J.S. AbsherBum Bam Boom
J.S. AbsherFlannel Board
Brent D. CorcoranTurncoat
Timothy LiuRomance
Timothy LiuAn Apocalypse
Timothy LiuAccidental Mystic
Paul SwensonMarginalia
Paul SwensonGirl Without a Mother to Her Big Brother
Sandra SkousonMother Willow
Karen KelsayWinterscape: Prairie
Jonathon PennySeasonal Ritual
Jon OgdenEaster Sermons
Harlow Soderborg ClarkGaius
Sarah DunsterDishes
Anna Kohler LewisIntermission Wine
Deja EarleySex Talk Sunday
Deja EarleyListening to My Parents Through the Ventilator Shaft
Anita TannerBlessing My Son
Matthew Thomas NagelVitae
Dixie Lee PartridgeVisible from Here
Dixie Lee PartridgeDark Energy
Dixie Lee PartridgeFour Passes on Mount Horeb
Les BlakeGood Government in the City
Elizabeth WillisNazarín
Elizabeth WillisSan Diego Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints
Elizabeth WillisThe Afternoon Hour
Terresa WellbornAtlanta to Salt Lake
Elizabeth GarciaRevelation
Elisa PulidoAfter Her Stroke
Shannon CastletonFinding Place
Douglas L. TalleyRunaway
John SchoutenMass Transit Madonna
Will RegerPerplexed by the Revelator’s Heaven
Scott CameronReview: Tyler Chadwick, ed. Fire in the Pasture 21st-Century Mormon Poems
Brent D. CorcoranMormon Scholars in the Humanities Conference: Savior, silver, psalms, and sighs, and flash-burn offerings
Jonathon Penny“Epithalamion” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Jonathon PennyFern Hill Revisited
Jonathon PennyJanie Goodmansen’s Reply
Jim RichardsSixth-Grade Broadway Revue
Jim RichardsInaccuracy
Justin EvansHobble Creek Almanac
Justin EvansGraphene
Clifton Holt JolleyA Short Poem about Nearly Everything
R. A. ChristmasIn Those Days of My Spirit: A Found Poem
Sarah E. PageSame-Sex Attraction
Clifton Holt JolleyBlessed Virgin
Diana DeanThis Dock My Home
Calvin OlsenFractals
Calvin OlsenGhazal
James GoldbergThe Feather Pen
James GoldbergGlazier
Dayna PattersonOfferings
Dayna PattersonSinging in the Easter Choir beside My Enemy
Michael HicksPuzzled
Brian BrownEmptying Pockets
Brian BrownBeyond (on the Beach)
Brian BrownThe Hosanna Shout
R. A. ChristmasSabbath Baptism
Robert A. ReesMelancholia
Robert A. ReesEaster
Robert A. ReesTrying to Keep Quiet: A Poem Constructed Around Fragments of Leslie Norris’s “Borders”
Simon Peter EggertsenIRRELEVANT—RELEVANT
M. Shayne BellFor Margene
S. P. BaileyAbout Half
S. P. Baileyevidence of things not seen
Clifton Holt JolleyJungle Walks
Mark PennyWhat Kind of Truth Is Beauty?: A Meditation on Keats, Job, and Scriptural Poetry
Michael AustinShade
Dixie Lee PartridgeEvenings in October
Dixie Lee PartridgeNot Far Off Trail, Late Summer
Dixie Lee PartridgeCrow Games
Will RegerHaiku for the Cat
Will RegerBlood Cries
Will RegerOblation
Will RegerFaith
Ronald WilcoxLet Rocks Their Silence Break
Anita TannerReview: When Good is Better than Great: Susan Elizabeth Howe’s Salt Susan Elizabeth Howe. Salt: Poems
Douglas L. TalleyReview: Job: A Useful Reading Michael Austin. Re-reading Job: Understanding the Ancient World’s Greatest Poems
John Crawfordflicker
James Deweywith gratitude to Adam S. Miller and Ryan W. Quinn in the beginning, Godgave grace awayfast and free to all this is what we call creationwhich was actually continuationand still continues every day, every hour,…
Noted in the Dark
Dixie Lee PartridgeSome nights here there’ve been singings the children out into twilight . . . their countings,their hidings, their ally ally oxen frees.And sometimes the crickets were not sounding bereft but offered impressions you needed to hear. Now in…
These Are the Hours
Dixie Lee Partridgewhen birds disappear taking strips of light folded in feathersnight insects ready themselves for meals from leaves of rose and raspberrythe hollow by the lane pools with evening like waterno moonrise cool radiance but night…
Vantage: Hoback Rim to Wind River
Dixie Lee PartridgeClosed to drift most of the year,trails descend through short lives of wildflowersbright in colonies, August air verging on frost,its thin metallic edge:snow squalls visible aheadwhere a continent divides.Life stays steep. Nothing in the view…
The Days Between—After Leaving Our YoungestAt College
Dixie Lee PartridgeIt’s turning fall in this long alley of young trees,poplar leaves still and golding in deep shade.You see no one and hear not even birds. But the pale trunks together seem to humlike choir rows,…
Lithium Shuffle
Reed RichardsDown the streettrusties from the state hospitalfollowing the horizon of their noon shadows,their feet scooping up the sidewalk,the fastest as slow as the slowest.The sun is on them and pitiless.If we, shaded neighborson the other…
heavy seeds
James Dewey. . . they buried the weapons of war, for peace. Alma 24:19 bury seeds these with covenant gritshrill songs on our lips as we circle the pit clank seeds clanging as we cry-file bybeg,…
Homemade Medicine
Emily UpdegraffGrandpa filled gelcaps with his own mixof dried herbs. Before clean food,before expensive organics, beforewellness became photogenic,he was a health nut. I asked himwhy did he grind dried leavesthe color of new hay,why did he…
Heart Sutra (In the guest bedroom at dawn, after the pandemic)
Charles Shiro Inouye1Today we scorn Russians,But we were invaders, too.Our lifestyle at stake in Iraq.Searching but not finding.Blood and bones and dirt.Infection and tears.Fighting to prove . . . what?Truth? America? God on our side? Twenty years ago, I heard…
No Man Can Serve Two Masters
Gregory BrooksEnjoy this poem in audio version here. But my diagnosis says otherwise. Depression oozes under my door: the destroying angel visits:until I can’t get out of bed. One week later I’m waving bloody hyssop like glow sticks at a ravenudging sushi…
Throwing Up in the DC Temple
Gregory BrooksEnjoy this poem in audio version here. Maybe it was envy that churned inside meas I looked around the room. Wonderingwhat healthy Mormons felt instead of fear. My body forced everyone to consider what it meant to be sick in…
Passion
Alixa Brobbey“And he said unto me: Knowest thou the condescension of God?”—1 Nephi 11:16 A body so light, it floatedacross wind-whipped wavesand did not sink. So full of life,it survived empty forty days,no wheat for forty…
Fierce Passage
Darlene YoungEnjoy this poem in audio version here. Today while researching ancestors, sifting through nested petalsof records for names that belong to me, peoplewho’ve left their bloody signatures in my genes, I found Melissa, some sixth…
A Good Sick Girl Never Gives Up
Darlene YoungEnjoy this poem in audio version here. A good sick girl would never give up.She pushes on in search of a cure,working as if all depended on her.“Not knowing beforehand” what she should do,she moves…
Hippocrates
Darlene YoungEnjoy this poem in audio version here. The doctor calls her sweetheart when she criesat hearing there is nothing he can find.He pats her back but will not meet her eyes. He doesn’t really mean…
Migraine Suite
Darlene YoungEnjoy this poem in audio version here. Prelude Something is not right. A haunting quaver to the world. Your mind feels viscous, your body watery. The lights have dimmed. The sense of the smell of ozone. AllemandeA greasy fingerprint on…
Thanksgiving in Kindergarten: Salt Lake City, Utah, 1996
Hilary BrownWe grew up in a city named for water we could not drink.Our ancestors walked for miles to finda home that would not burn so easily,then stumbled on salt, which meant preservation. In 1996 we…
Mormon Tea
Emily UpdegraffI.They leftDenmark’s ripening wheat fields,crossed moss-covered pathsof England and Wales, forsookthe saturated airof Tennessee to build homeson ground glazed in the open-air kilnof the western sun.Called by God,they did not think to askfirst peoples for…
Collect for a Family Friend Killed in a Sabbath Morning House Fire
Tyler ChadwickListen the Out Loud version of this poem here. O, preening angels, voyeursof bright and burning things, of underbuilding flare-ups andflaming caved-in tinder, whose breathing—plumed, infernal,unforgiving—sweltered her last daybreak with unholy invocation—Please, if mercy be,…
Earthen Lavers Tyler Chadwick, Litany with WingsScott Hales, Hemingway in Paradiseand Other Mormon PoemsElizabeth Pinborough, The Brain’s Lectionary:Psalms and Observations
J.S. AbsherA few years ago, William Logan wrote, “Poetry has long been a major art with a minor audience.”[1] We could more accurately call it a major art with many minor audiences grouped, like the poets,…
My Body in the Temple
Darlene YoungListen the Out Loud version of this poem here. Halfway through the session, I become awareof a full bladder and nothing else.All that is holy is eclipsedby flesh. I pant in claustrophobiabetween the lady who…
Like a Prayer—Phormium tenax
Tyler ChadwickListen the Out Loud version of this poem here. How that late sabbath afternoon you sat cross-legged on their lawn, Elder S at your side, the couple just across, their backs to her late summer…
anamnesis: confronting God in the flesh
Anita TannerListen the Out Loud version of this poem here. 1. a patient’s accountof medical history,a reiteration of conditionscontracted by mortality,a form of proud flesh’sgranulation over a wound,a raised tissue massdelineating impact to sayhere is pain,…
Osmond Ward Chapel, Now Demolished
Anita TannerSometimes from the thresholdof these doorswe are greeted by another self,another worldwe wish to worship, incarnationthe tithe we offerfor such a crossing: we, seeking the divine,the divine leaning toward us,fading coal of memory igniting into…
Portrait of Agnes
Sarah EmmettListen the Out Loud version of this poem here. Stern little lady,ancestor in an oval frame,I like the way your shoulders slopeand your fingers dangleover the book and the carpetbag skirt.I like the way your…
Cemetery Walk
Sarah EmmettListen the Out Loud version of this poem here. It was somewhere around here, I think.Where they buried that baby,yeah, the one I told you about.No, not by the pioneer obelisksa wife for each sidefresh…
The Garden I Know
Sarah EmmettListen the Out Loud version of this poem here. In his artistic agony,diamond drops of bloodcovered Christ’s chiseled body,sacred sweat shimmeredin the light of the Passover moon.The Son of God, an altarpiece,in serene pain and…
Third Place: Penitent Magdalene, Donatello
Anita TannerShock of agingin a wooden sculpture—more than yearsdisplayed here,her gauntand weathered faceportraying time had its way—sunken eyes,broken teeth,parched and haggard lips. The cathedralof her handsforms a gothic archbelow her chinsuggesting prayer,her frail body embracedby heavy…
First Place: His Own Hand
J.S. AbsherI desire to be to the Eternal Goodness what his own hand is to a man.—Theologica Germanica i. What the Right Hand Is Take my right hand—the index finger crookedfrom a long-forgotten break; the dintwhere…
Second Place: Our Lady of Innumerable Appellatives
Dayna PattersonListen to the Out Loud version of the poem here. Enter into Her gates with thanksgivingand into Her courts with praise.—Psalm 100:4 1.Swirl of gold gleaming in our daughters’ eyes.Amen. Whorl of cirrostratus haloingthe moon.…
Saint George, Utah
Millie TullisListen to the audio version here. Not named for the Saintwho met the princess bythe lake and with her girdleleashed the dragon. Who killed it for the people’s conversion.Whose chapel in Windsorholds a part of…
Bear One Another’s Burdens
Lorren LemmonsGetting there
Millie TullisPaper Route
Scott StensonPodcast version of this piece. Sabbath afternoon in summer sometimes feelslike those February mornings I’d wedge thedamp butt of each newspaper in friend’s saddlepack clouded gray with his indistinguishablefingerprints. Their buckling mouths a smudgedbouquet of…
From the Angels’ Perch at Mount Moriah
Elizabeth PinboroughPodcast version of this piece. Scene: Thicket for a Slaughter We have seenbets, contests— only the greatones sent tospar with God: father, son,sacrifice. Scene: An Examination Question:the brain, a tangledbramble—the fire and the knife,a fearsomebinding.…
Recreating Abraham’s Star Charts
Elizabeth PinboroughPodcast version of this piece. I pause on the path, drop my sticks,and bend to read them like runes.Tell the stars, They said. So I do daily— I chart their breathless turning asI gather berries…
Addendum to Jacob Sorensen’s Patriarchal Blessing
Hugo N. OlaizPodcast version of this piece. I don’t know, Jake,why Dad asked me to drive you there,but I did hear every word Brother Allen said,and here’s a few he skipped: Our Heavenly Fatheris pleased with your…
Ministry of angles
Lisa Ottesen FillerupPodcast version of this piece. You who more than oncespelled angle when meaning angel,are now one—maybe both.A sharp line on white paperdriving hardand fastin another spacewhose numbersI do not know. YetIn the arithmeticof our individual…
Morning Light
Estee Arts CrenshawPodcast version of this piece. That dark matter that fashioned us, days laterMade light by command, what voice, I wonderCould shake atoms into place and stir invisibleWaves through the air, as something we cannot seeAllows…
Tender Rills
Elizabeth PinboroughPodcast version of this piece. If Gods are poeming Kolob,if I am poeming God, if we arepoems to each other, A word is more than a destinationthan a path, than a map. A word is…
Prism
Robert A. ReesPodcast version of this piece. They had agreedthat if she were seenthe boy wouldn’t be believedin seeing them.Nevertheless, she was there,her iridescent spherea coronaover their column of sun,reflecting,refractingthe morning.The flowers turned to her,the green of…
God the Mother Speaks of Salt
Dayna PattersonPodcast version of this piece. I baptized you before you were born. After, rubbed you clean.I’ll cleanse all your wounds in season. You’ve forgottenhow to savor my holy. If you seek,you’ll find these veins run…
God the Mother Speaks of Xenia
Dayna PattersonPodcast version of this piece. I AM the children sleeping under mylar in a Texas warehouse.I AM the fathers lifting toddlers to their shoulders on our journeyto safety and rest. I’m safety and rest. But…
Benediction
Neal ChandlerPodcast version of this piece. Here’s the truth: My faith remainstepid. Lukewarm as summer rain. Spew-worthy. A compass in fragments, I saved pieces: base plate, arrow, needle.Reassembly is beyond me. Millennia ago, I stood on…
Book of Life, for Timothy Liu
Dayna PattersonPodcast version of this piece. If there is a literal bookon a plinth of filigreed gold, and an angelstanding as sentinel at heaven’s needle-eye entrance, who’s not to sayour names appear etchedon its pages, un-erasable.…
God the Mother Speaks of Hearts
Dayna PattersonPodcast version of this piece. won’t you agree with me the heart’s a glorious organ moon jelly a ghost heart throbbing in oceanlily bulb an earth heart humming undergroundbear a furred heart curled up in cave’s dark I’m…
Mothersong
Bonnie Shiffler-OlsenPodcast version of this piece. Let us amass our wandering kicks, wondering in awe at thesecostumes her womb hath made. O Motherof the sacred hearts, sing your peasant lullabies before our every sleep. Ring like…
creation story
Maren LovelandPodcast version of this piece. He makes the light and the primeval oceans and the rapturous Word, but I have the dirt the ground the chthonic underbelly and sustenance of all. I have the jewel-toned…
Big Bang, with Sternutation and Seer Stones
Tyler ChadwickPodcast version of this piece. i. In the beginning, Mother worked yleminto a loose sphere. A swirl of stray particles, stirred by the breeze blown through herstudio window, circled her workbench, tickled her nose. She…
Ascension, after John Donne
Kathryn SonntagPodcast 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…
Acoustic
Gerrit van DykPodcast version of this piece. My devotion never translates to my fingers.There is something lost.The scaly chaff of my heart opens my lungs.I pinch my pic like a quillwhat can I scrawl in the dusk?…
Hymn to a Maple
Gerrit van DykPodcast version of this piece. Your inverted slant is an acute notewest to east in the shaded sunrisesurrounded as you are by that moatof rocks and weeds, dry as a chalk line. One Goliath’s push…
Salt Lake City, 1957
Judy Darke DeloguPodcast version of this piece. Sunday morning in Salt Lake City, whenfaithful Mormons flock to worshipat neighborhood wards, my father’ssecret psychiatric patients slip insidethe back door of 508 East South Temple,for fifty-five-minute appointments.A nurse impersonator,…
Color
David K. IsomPodcast version of this piece. Morning at homelistening to silenceand a solo cello,caressing old books,fog outside,fire inside. Treesin crystal veils,fog-doused sun,Earth’s palette replacedby soot and chalk. No color.Only grays,darker or lighter.No real black.No clean white.…
Book of Mormon Poetry James Goldberg, A Book of Lamentations
Edward WhitleyA few years ago I was researching poems written about the Book of Mormon. I had read Eliza R. Snow’s “The Lamanite” (adapted from a poem she wrote before becoming a Latter-day Saint titled “The…
Young Gods
Blaire OstlerSlipping off a Sunday dress—hoping you’ll join me and undress.No more dark slacks and white shirts,corruption of innocence tends to hurt.It’s worship too irreverent for pews,forgive my transgression against a holy muse,but, trust me, crisis…
Casual Violence in Sunday School
Gregory BrooksJohn the Baptist was a hairy scorpionwho skittered out from the wildernessand began stinging folksuntil they saw the Holy Ghost. He molted like all prophets do,lived in caves, under rocks,until the predators found him—took his…
The Leper
Gregory BrooksAn armadillo dug up the grassin my parents’ yard last year— the kind that bounce buckshotoff their back and carry leprosy. If only I could do the same:materialize armor, lumber along. I could curl up…
Bi-Bestiary
Gregory BrooksI suppose only the animals that paired offand shuffled up the rampsurvived the flood. So this Bishop, pointing outthat we would rather flirtthan marry—well, he built an Ark out of the treeslining the church property.He…
Daffodils
Alixa BrobbeyYour lips are melting petals,Wilting into my mouth.My tears not clearEnough to revive them. When you learn to fly,Will they forget to dance?Lose their maypole eyelashesAnd languish, lonely, withWings cut. And yet,I pray, make me…
Created in His Image
Alixa BrobbeyI.The first lie they told me wasBlonde Jesus. Thick Belinda locks,And blue ocean eyes.He hangs on the cross, whiteLike a tender lamb, orWhite like a lily flower,Or like white snowSmothering brown ground. II.The second lie…
“I Cannot Describe Salt”: Elizabeth Willis, Poets in Exile, and the Church Invisible in the Age of Pandemic
Jacob BenderEver since Socrates banished poetry in Book X of Plato’s Republic with a flippant “if . . . poetry can show any reason for her existence in a well-governed state, we would gladly admit her,”[1] Western poets…
Review: Poetry as Ceremony Tacey M. Atsitty, Rain Scald
Michael P. TaylorO Holy People, show me how I am human,how I am soon to sliver. Stay please, for womanor man’s sake. Succor me from a telestial state,where I long to be self-luminous in a slateof granite.…
Candy Dish Sonnet
Tacey M. AtsittyAlready the heart-shaped dish on my end tablelies combed bare: long strips dug out============== a cleaning out============== a scratch in grain, table scraps lain out so comely, meaning to loveor hold cacao or almonds—those striaeof…
Lacing
Tacey M. AtsittyVII. Sometimes I kneel down to play a gamefrom my childhood. Only then can I feelgrains of gravel, each pebble digs in so real.Sometimes I act as though I am the same,a young girl, rope…
Review: Dayna Patterson, If Mother Braids a Waterfall
Theric JepsonReview: Dayna Patterson, Titania in Yellow
Theric JepsonReview: Sunni Brown Wilkinson, The Marriage of the Moon and the Field
Theric JepsonReview: Michael Lavers, After Earth
Theric JepsonReview: Kate Piersanti, Life in Poetry
Theric JepsonReview: Jan G. Otterstrom F., Move On
Theric JepsonReview: Colin B. Douglas, Into the Sun: Poems Revised, Rearranged, and New
Theric JepsonReview: R. A. Christmas, Leaves of Sass
Theric JepsonParousia
A. I. ChristensenShe says she was eating or opening a window or just walkingdully along, and always had been, but tonight there might befew angels. These things. Our dogwagging across the foreground, the porchthat still needs fixing…
Matriarchal Blessing
Kyle BondYour hands were on my head first. No formal ceremony. I was an infantand shouting clouds trundled and thundered,atmospheric pressure strangled my stubborn ears refusing airflow.The blue chair in the living room rocked,my cries received…
Grasshoppers in the Jar of the World
J.S. AbsherThe jar is silent because it is full of praise.The grasshoppers are loud because they, too,are full of praise, clicking as they fly. The grasshoppers jump, but the jar is too high.They try to climb,…
Praying on Gravel
J.S. AbsherNot yet March, already weedsbring me to my kneeswith trowel and bare fingers. Under the loblollythe hellebore are in bloom,a periwinkle or two. The weeds are in the white gravelof the walk. My son has…
Until You Come
J.S. AbsherTaipei, ’97. I walk past side-streetvendors selling lychee nuts and blackrice cakes, to an acre of bare dirt,concrete pylons lifting a cloverleaf.A grizzled man by a beat-up Buickthrows gobbets of meat from the trunkto a…
James Goldberg and Ardis Parshall, Song of Names: A Mormon Mosaic
(author)His Twelve Points of the Scout Law (Grandpa Fesses Up)
R. A. ChristmasSunni Brown Wilkinson. The Marriage of the Moon and the Field
Elizabeth Garcia“To speak to Moses, God / put a stone in his mouth, put on / a sackcloth of verbs (want, need), / cleared his throat. Cried out” (3). Sunni Brown Wilkinson this way begins her collection The…
Karen Anderson’s Excavation of Ghosts Karin Anderson. Before Us Like a Land of Dreams
Lauren MatthewsMark 5:9—“My name is Legion: for we are many”—opens Karin Anderson’s masterwork Before Us Like a Land of Dreams. Anderson lyrically pools her ancestral narrative in sweeping loops, eddying history, religion, and landscape. Ghosts speak elusive,…
Becky, Not God
Henry Landon Milesset the hour for their reunion.She’s under the greencanopy in the closed coffin. She signed away her body,except for her skin,so her hip bones might be recycled into screws to repair broken anklesor wedges to…
The Stars Saw God
Chris A. PeckI found God huddled in my father’s insanity.There beneath the layersof confusion—as to why none of us saw thespinning ball or the parade outside—I saw his vacant expression shine out likeGod-rays through the clouds.Clarity in…
Daryl Prays, The Snake River, and Insomnia
Tamara Pace ThomsonDaryl Prays How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! Lamentations 4:1 At fourteen, Daryl cut across an empty lotbehind a brick pharmacywhere he had picked up his mom’s pills(linden…
Genesis Chiasmus
Luisa PerkinsIn the Big Ending,My son used to sayWhen I read him the Genesis board book.Which was perfect, I thought.Such a start must surely have followedAn ending that was big.What brought that ending on? And whatGave…
Born Again
Christopher BissettBecause I did not fit a second timein the womb of my mother,I was born of my father instead. He held my arm to haul me from the waterand with the other, squared it to…
Women’s Blessing
(author)Issue of Blood
Twila NeweyExplaining God the Mother to My Father
Terresa WellbornSelf Portrait in Which I Fail to Hide My Daddy Issues From Google
Allie SpikesWilling the Storm
Holly WelkerOn Women and Priesthood Power
(author)Mother’s Blessing
Mette Ivie HarrisonReason Stares
Emily Harris AdamsA Found Poem
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonThe “Blackblue Heartguts” of Trees Brooke Larson. Pleasing Tree.
Amy TakaboriThird Watch
Jonathon EganVernal
Jonathon EganDry Tree
Dennis ClarkTrue Religion
Michael HicksThe Agreement
Michael HicksThe Four Stanzas of the Apocalypse
Michael HicksAdvent: Moose in Moonlight
Anita TannerCreek Skating
Anita TannerBridegroom
Dennis ClarkJesus Christ
Tyler ClarkNew & Everlasting
Theric JepsonSweater
Theric JepsonThe Moldau in a Utah Living Room
Simon Peter EggertsenThe Mormon Peace Gathering
Dennis ClarkSunday School
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonJudas
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonDevotion
Terresa WellbornProdigal Daughter
Rachel Hunt SteenblikWhat Ashmae Taught Me
Rachel Hunt SteenblikCircles and Lines
Dalene RowleyJanuary 21, 2019
Elizabeth PinboroughOur Lady of the Temple
Dayna PattersonPrayers for the Altars
Linda Hoffman KimballFriday Morning Shift
Linda Hoffman KimballSkin of Garments
Melodie JacksonMy New Temples
Mette Ivie HarrisonThen and Now
Cheryl L. BrunoLimen
Emily BrownRitual
Emily BrownPlacenta
William DeFordDream Psalm
William DeFordWalking Back to the ‘70s
R. A. ChristmasTalitha koum
Tyler ChadwickOn Cherubim and a Flaming Sword by J. Kirk Richards
Tyler ChadwickReview: It’s Lonely at the Top Ryan Shoemaker. Beyond the Lights.
Alison BrimleyReview: Mother, May We? Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. Edited by Tyler Chadwick, Dayna Patterson, and Martin Pulido.
Gail Turley HoustonThe Older Covenant
Kathryn SonntagThe Tree at the Center
Kathryn SonntagOne Thousand Two Hundred Sixty Days
Kathryn SonntagThe Pioneer Woman, St. George
Kevin KleinSelf-Portrait of Mormon Middle Child as Isabella
Dayna PattersonAfter the Curtain Falls, Isabella Speaks in Achromatics
Dayna PattersonReview: “Twisted Apples”: Lance Larsen Takes on Prose Poetry Lance Larsen. What the Body Knows
Darlene YoungRaking
Melissa Youngthe fog
Elisabeth RichardsonSoft
Kevin KleinA Better Country
Kevin KleinPoema de Halloween, 2001
Hugo N. OlaizAlpha
Douglas Summers StaySonnet—For Solstice
Theric JepsonAgency of all that matters
Robert J. FredericksonChoose Your Own Belief: Of Sharks, Art, & God
Sherilyn OlsenForgotten Birds
Robert A. ReesDomestiku
Theric JepsonThe Goodness of Created Things
Susan Elizabeth HoweIf Joseph Smith Had Been Born in California
Theric JepsonAs If Nothing Matters
Chris A. PeckFaith
Natalie Shaw EvjenAt Least
C. Dylan BassettTrevor at the Fountain
Simon Peter EggertsenGrand Canyon, North Rim
Terresa WellbornAjalon Moon
Sarah E. PageThe Holy Ghost in Polyhymnia’s Closet
Elizabeth GarciaThe Holy Ghost in Melpomene’s Closet
Elizabeth GarciaEcho of Boy
Darlene YoungNosebleed (A Mormon Pilgrimage)
Tyler ClarkChristus
Laura Hilton CranerThe Grammar of Quench
Ronald WilcoxNot the Truman Show
R. A. ChristmasSolomon the Wise
Riley BassettAverted Vision
Joanna EllsworthElegy / Prayer
C. Dylan BassettTrue Ideas
C. Dylan BassettMy Sadness
Susan Elizabeth HoweThe Skin of the Story
Susan Elizabeth HoweThe Flock
Les BlakeWords
Jamie NaylorEight Visions of the First
Bonnie Shiffler-OlsenDialogue 49.3 (Fall 2016): 151–155
Shiffler-Olsen turns Joseph Smtih’s first-person First Vision accounts into poetry.
Temple
Mark BrownKeeping Faith
Warren HatchOctober Above Trial Lake
Warren HatchStony Places
Sarah E. PageMy Sister Once Died
Jenny WebbGrief
Mark BrownThe Trail
Stephen CarterBaptism
Christinah CrossOrdinary and Profane Poems
Ronald WilcoxTropical Butterfly House
Dayna PattersonKill the Poets
Emma Lou ThayneProphet by the Sea
Phyllis BarberMormon Conversions
Laura HamblinFrom Utah Poems: To Elias
Stan AndersonBoy Diving Through Moss — Poetry
Dennis SmithMental Gas — Poetry
Eliza R. SnowNew Acts of Poetry: Space in the Sage ; What You Feel, I Share ; Speak to Me
Mary Lythgoe BradfordOn the Precipice: Three Mormon Poets: Barbed Wire: Poetry and Photographs of the West
Edward A. GearySacrament of Terror: Violence in the Poetry of Clinton F. Larsen
Thomas D. SchwartzThe Poetic Mystique: The Grandmother Tree by Marilyn McKeen Miller Brown ; Mahanga: Pacific Poems by Vernice Wineera Pere
Veneta Leatham NielsenNew Voices, New Songs: Contemporary Poems by Mormon Women
Linda SillitoePersephone ; The Old Penitentiary, Boise
Jeanette CloughHold
Emma Lou ThayneRepapering the Kitchen
Randall L. HallGratitude
Dianne Dibb ForbisMemory’s Duty
Ronald WilcoxBronzed Cadences
LaBerta BoboThe Golden Chain
Michael R. Collings“Moonbeams From a Larger Lunacy”: Poetry in the Reorganization
Paul EdwardsDialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 22–31
This study addresses poetry within the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and defines an RLDS poet as someone who belongs to the RLDS church and who has published poetry in some form or other.
The New Mormon Poetry: The Seventh Day by Lewis Home
Dennis ClarkStill Sounds of Winter
Dawn Baker BrimleyCharm for a Sick Child
Linda SillitoeAnother Birth
Linda SillitoeFishers
Robert A. ReesExpatriate
Jim WalkerBorn Again
Mary Lythgoe BradfordOil Upon Oil
Brooke Elizabeth SmithHow Much for the Earth? A Suite of Poems: About a Time for Considering
Emma Lou ThayneUnfinished Sestina for the Secretary of Defense
Kathy EvansThe High Price of Poetry
Glenn Willett ClarkReturning
Kathy EvansDiaries
Joyce Ellen DavisDavid and Bathsheba
Michael R. CollingsFathering
Jim WalkerThe Interview
John BennionBenediction
Neal ChandlerLightning Barbs
Marden J. ClarkOne Year
Margaret R. MunkAs Winter Comes On
Helen Walker JonesThis Is My Body
Marden J. ClarkAll My Silent Midnight Hours
Lisa Bolin HawkinsNote: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web format of article as a courtesy. Please note that there may be unintentional differences from the printed version. For citational and biographical purposes, please use the printed version…
Grains of Life: Fragments of a Sonnet Cycle
Helen Candland StarkSonnet for Spring
Linda SillitoeFor the Bishop’s Wife
Kathy EvansGrandmother Envisions Her Own Death
Helen Walker JonesWinter Burial
Carol Clark OttesenSeasoning
C. Thomas AsplundNativity
Kathy EvansThey Have Closed the Church My Father Helped Build
Anita TannerEvenings: His Church Calling
Anita TannerChristmas in Utah
Leslie NorrisCancun Beach, Mexico
Carol Clark OttesenSons
Connie Hendrickson JorgensenRecollections from an Ex
Karen Marguerite MoloneyFor Brother de Mik
Dian SaderupLulu: On the Death of a Sister
Frederick G. WilliamsDiscouragement
Frederick G. WilliamsStones; The Salutation; The Problem; Grandmother, Grandmother, Grandmother; Bishop
Loretta Randall SharpFeliz Navidad
C. L. ChristensenOur Way
Paris AndersonLuggage
Dixie Lee PartridgePruned
Kathie Rampton RockwoodTo Watch a Daughter Die
Kathie Rampton RockwoodPrayer of a Novice Rebel
Kathie Rampton RockwoodBodies
Michael R. CollingsA Life Well-Shared: So Far: Poems by Margaret Rampton Munk
Mary Lythgoe BradfordWinton Night Walks
Steven L. PeckAugust 6
Marden J. ClarkTo a Modern Isaac
C. L. ChristensenNavel
Anita TannerThe Oldest Son Leaves for Nagoya
Jim WalkerBurial Service
Jim WalkerFor Bonnie
Randal AllredHere’s the Church
Kathy EvansFailed Friendship
E. Victoria Grover-SwankLesser Voices
Sherwin W. HowardSonnet on Life’s Dangers
Linda SillitoeThe Lord’s Table
Timothy LiuTwo Fishermen in Hong Kong
Timothy LiuThree Poems for My Mother
Philip WhiteEarly Through Winter
Jill HemmingPure Thin Bones
Lisa Madsen De RubilarThree Generations of Mormon Poetry: A zipper of haze; Tinder; Christmas Voices
R. A. ChristmasInadvertent Disclosure: Autobiography in the Poetry of Eliza R. Snow
Maureen Ursenbach BeecherGrandpa
Jill HemmingPassion Poems: How Much for the Earth? by Emma Lou Thayne
Linda SillitoeA Lot to Like: Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems edited by Eugene England and Dennis Clark
Miriam B. MurphyOne of the Women
Dixie Lee PartridgeThe Slow Way Home
Loretta Randall SharpDeity
Anita TannerDaddy Hung Me Out
A. R. MitchellThe Blood in My Veins
Dorothy K. WheelerIf I Had Children
May SwensonI Can Wait For
Holly WelkerHeartbreak Hill
R. A. ChristmasThe Next Weird Sister Builds a Dog Run
Laura HamblinTransformation
Jerrilyn BlackCall Before the Obituary
Jill HemmingIsland Spring
Philip WhiteInnocence
Holly WelkerI Consider Jonah’s Whale
Paris AndersonBurn Ward
Ellen KartchnerSisters
Jerrilyn BlackBeing Baptized for the Dead, 1974
Lance LarsenIn the Back Lot at Hillview Manor
Mary Ann LoseeBaptism: As Light as Snow
Michael R. CollingsOne Sunday’s Rain (After Word of My Father’s Illness)
Dixie Lee PartridgeThe Dark Gray Morning
Tom RileyCure
Michael GrayThe Virgin Mary Confronts Mary and Magdala
Richard ShortenHow Could We Have Known
Laura HamblinThe Perseids
Philip WhiteMechanics
Mary Ann LoseeThe Hero Woman
Karla BennionPatchwork
Michael R. CollingsLosing Lucy
Karla BennionNickel Girls
Holly WelkerOver Coffee, 600 B.C.
Melanie D. ShumwaySong of the Old/Oldsongs: Only Morning in Her Shoes: Poems about Old Women edited by Leatrice Lifshitz
Karen Marguerite MoloneyOvum
Susan Elizabeth HoweThe Good Life
Edward L. HartJackrabbits
William PowleyWaiting
Mark Edward KoltkoA Vision of Judas
Timothy LiuTwo Sisters Visit Dieppe
Mary Ann LoseeCelebrations: Things Happen: Poems of Survival by Emma Lou Thayne
Susan Elizabeth HoweWhen I Swam for the Utah Valley Dolphins
William PowleyThe Mistake of the Psycholinguists
Karla BennionArt and Half a Cake
M. Shayne BellMy Mormon Grandmother
Kit G. LinfordConey Island Hymn: Shore
Glen NelsonThe 20/20 Leap
William PasseraEcclesiastical Check
Richard WimanWoman Bathing ; Authority
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonHands
Philip WhiteMissionary Court
Lance LarsenLate
Jerrilyn BlackRelativity
Ronald WilcoxReturn
Anita TannerManna in the Desert
Tom RileyVariation on a Love Letter
Holly WelkerThe Book Handed Her
Anita TannerWinter Fast Offerings
Lance LarsenEntire Unto Himself
Michael R. CollingsThe Pulpit
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonYellow Hair
Michael GraySestina for the Coming Fall
Anneliese WarnickSaint Theresa and the Lepress
Kathryn KimballWhat El Salvador Meant to a Three-year-old
B. J. FoggBeth-lehem
Richard TiceNight Myths
Dixie Lee PartridgeNotes for a Son, 19, Living Abroad
Dixie Lee PartridgeSnowy Night
Lisa Bolin HawkinsBecoming a Writer
Derk KoldewynBreadcrumbs
Dixie Lee PartridgeExercising the Priesthood
Derk KoldewynPostcard
Holly WelkerLitany
Philip WhiteHousehold of Faith
Dana Haight CattaniGod With Us
Philip WhiteA Body That Expands
Holly WelkerDouble Exposure
Lewis HorneSacrament Prayer
Lance LarsenBrando
Holly WelkerWarren Travels With His Father
Michael R. CollingsDecoration Day
Jillyn CarpenterDay Dreams
Karen Marguerite MoloneySole Makers
Russell MooreheadThe Man Without Sin
H. L. MilesLancashire Saint Dies
Rita BowlesLeave of Absence
Dixie Lee PartridgeResurrection
Derk KoldewynOur Fecundity
David PaxmanFor My Father, 1934-1990
Marni Asplund-CampbellMama and Daddy Standin’ By
Paul SwensonIn Passing To Her Fathers
Warren HatchBean Counting
Michael J. NobleI Have Learned 5 Things
Elaine ChristensenAspens
Don W. JenkinsMagi
Pamela Porter HamblinCommentary
Donna BernhiselIreland
Brent PaceTo Joseph of Nazareth: Patron Saint of Fathers Dispossessed
Harlow Soderborg ClarkHobby Horses
Lance LarsenMovements Giving Off Light
Dixie Lee PartridgeMummy Pendulum
David PaxmanSariah
Marni Asplund-CampbellJesus is Coming
Brent PaceMarcus
Brent PaceSecrets under the Surface: Crazy for Living: Poems by Linda Sillitoe
Emma Lou ThayneThe Invisible Woman
Holly WelkerGoing Dark
Anita TannerServing the Papers
Lance LarsenHis Sermon
Anita TannerNestling
Michael R. CollingsFor the Girl Who Saw Her Mother Cold
Marni Asplund-CampbellA Courtship
Joseph FisherOn X-ing
Marden J. ClarkMy Mama’s Hands
Donna BernhiselStorytime
Philip WhiteEarly Winter
Anita TannerClean
Donna BernhiselIn a Far Land
M. Shayne BellPilgrimage
Joanna BrooksBasilica
Jerry JohnstonBathing a Child
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonThe Violent Woman
Joseph FisherNaked
Lance LarsenCap Meets the Prophet Brigham
Derk Koldewyn1844
Philip WhiteSnows
Marden J. ClarkThe Time Traveler Comes to Cana
M. Shayne BellMarch Children
Nancy Hanks BairdNegative Space
Paul SwensonRazor Sharp
Marden J. Clark1948
Elaine ChristensenThe Three Boats
Brian EvensonWeight
R. A. ChristmasHospital Healing
Linda SillitoeSleeping on Wood
Nancy Hanks BairdRELEASE: A Moment
Dixie Lee PartridgeThe Freeway
Lee RobisonHow Things Look from the Other Side of the Lake
R. A. ChristmasCereal Polygamy
R. A. ChristmasBrides of the Afternoon
Paul SwensonSlant Sonnet for Melissa
Linda SillitoeGhost Month
Holly WelkerReply to: “You Are a Spiritual Person”
Carol Clark OttesenToni’s Song
Paul SwensonBecause Last Night Was Friday Night
Holly WelkerSaturday: One Version (Fourth Week of an Unidentified Illness)
Dixie Lee PartridgeThe Prophet’s Dream
Brian EvensonWhat Remains
Anita TannerAristocrats
Robert L. JonesHis Faith-Promoting Story
R. A. ChristmasBread: A Returning
Dixie Lee PartridgeThe Statue of Brigham Young at South Temple and Main, Salt Lake City
Michael HicksI Will
Allen W. BurchHemmed In
Michael J. NobleA Killing Frost
Timothy LiuGeorge
Lee RobisonDescending Order
Dixie Lee PartridgeUntitled
Peter Bloch-HansenFall Weekend at Rehoboth Beach
Peter RichardsonIn a Far Land
M. Shayne BellThey Eat Dogs in China
Timothy LiuGaining Darkness
Anita TannerAmerican Christians Visit Mt. Nebo
Lee RobisonThe Miro Exhibit at MoMA: Dec. 21, 1993
Peter RichardsonPieta
Nancy Hanks BairdShe’iina Yazhi
Kimberly Hamblin Hart“I Do Remember How It Smelled Heavenly”: Mormon Aspects of May Swenson’s Poetry
Susan Elizabeth HoweBy Extension
Michael J. NobleAugust
Philip WhiteThe Greening
Emma Lou ThayneOrigami Birds
David RockProperties of Water
Nancy BairdSeconds Coming
Casualene MeyerAwake to the Ineffable: Some Would Call It Kundalini
Emma Lou ThayneTo Sleep with the Ineffable: Inviting My Sweet Informants
Emma Lou ThayneThe Soon-to-hibernate Bear Addresses His Public
Karl C. Sandberg“White” of “Pure”: Five Vignettes
Douglas CampbellDialogue 29.4 (Winter 1996): 119–135
The Book of Mormon variously uses “white” and “pure” in the same verse in different editions. This article traces the history of those changes, who was behind them, and why.
Leaving
Stanton Harris HallBlack Moroni
Paul SwensonLife-line
Megan Thayne HeathSilver Footprints
Emma Lou ThayneAlaska Girlhood
R. F. BartholomewWe Dress for Armageddon
Elizabeth VisickKick and Muff
David SeiterShorn
Michael J. NoblePassing On, Holiday
David SeiterFire in the Water
Stanton Harris HallOasis
Linda SillitoeDesert Bloom
Megan Thayne HeathStake Mission
R. A. ChristmasKayenta
Bryan WatermanMoon Phases: Childhood
Dixie Lee PartridgeMountain Turn-out: Week After My Father’s Funeral
Dixie Lee PartridgeFather Sky/Mother Earth
Cathy A. Gileadi-SweetHow She Comes
MaryJan MungerFall is the Wrong Analogy
Lee RobisonMartyrs
Timothy LiuOn the Death by Cancer of Someone Too Young
Emma Lou ThayneWoodwork
Ken RainesTake These Depositions
Casualene MeyerStraw
Cathy A. Gileadi-SweetBirthday Dreaming
Megan Thayne Heath“Watercress Grows Best in Running Water”
Dixie Lee PartridgeLily Foot
Anita TannerTemplum: A Place Thought of as Holy
Stanton Harris HallAfter a Late Night, Waiting
Dixie Lee PartridgeOut of the Night: Childness
Emma Lou ThayneSacrament Hymn
Lee RobisonFrom the Land of Nod
Timothy LiuHoly Sonnet for Mother’s Day
Judith B. CurtisHistory
Philip WhiteA Prayer Addressed to Lord of Death
Satyam S. MoortyMormontage
Addie LacoeAllelujah
Joy K. YoungLong Distance
Linda SillitoeAt Fifty-Five
R. A. ChristmasAlder and Maple in Molting
Stanton Harris HallCreations: Mississippi
Casualene MeyerMultiply and Replenish
Casualene MeyerSesquicentennial Pioneer Commemoration Speech
Robert ReynoldsSoft Sculpture
Mary Lythgoe BradfordBasic Training
Lewis HorneShe and He: Alternatives
Lewis HorneLectures on Death at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Pamela Porter HamblinOn the Fringe — The Singles’ Ward (The Appeal of the Foyer)
Bradford FillmoreWidow’s Weeds
Mary Lythgoe BradfordThistle Field
Casualene MeyerStraight Up
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonMiguel
Peter RichardsonOne Method of Hope
Todd Robert PetersenLucifer’s Obit.
Brent D. CorcoranBegotten of the Ash
Bryant H. McGillJoseph Loved His Women
Mary Lythgoe BradfordTo a Cymbidium Orchid
Michael R. CollingsFashion Show
Lewis HorneOrdinary Light
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonFact of my Life
Linda SillitoeWe Write What We Want to Know
Anita TannerMy Father Comes to Me
Brent PaceTo a College Friend Killed by a Drunk Driver
Carol Clark OttesenDrama Queen
Brent PaceNight Fires
Brent PaceWomen are the Keepers of Secrets
Mary Lythgoe BradfordA Name and a Blessing
Carol Clark OttesenLuke 7:37
Kathryn KimballCourting
Peter RichardsonIf the Din of Cities Makes the Moon
M. Shayne BellDragging Fanny
Paul SwensonAfterward
Dixie Lee PartridgeAbove the Estuary
Dixie Lee PartridgeMetaphysics Over Lunch
Linda SillitoeCaught Gull, Plowing
Derk KoldewynCompanionship
Derk KoldewynClay
Philip WhiteThe First Christmas Eve at Home
N. Andrew SpackmanPracticing at Sunrise
Joy K. YoungNatural Symmetry
Ken RainesNight Thunder at the Cabin
Emma Lou ThayneMilitary Funeral in a High Hills Cemetery
Robert L. JonesDay Music
Joy K. YoungWild Things
Lisa GarfieldPlain and Simple
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonTemple Square — Past and Present
Delbert W. EllsworthReclamation
Ken RainesGrandma Comes for Me
Emma Lou ThayneThin Ice
Ken RainesFertility
Carol Clark OttesenNaked
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonHop Hornbeam
R. A. ChristmasFrom Under Ground
Lisa GarfieldPlanting Day
Quinn WarnickTrajectory at the End of Winter
Emma Lou ThayneRussell
Philip WhiteJesus Lost
Paul SwensonThrough a Glass Darkly
E. Leon ChidesterUnder the Faultline
Philip WhiteThe Basic Tune of the Sparrow
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonThe Charity of Silence
Todd Robert PetersenThe By-pass
Lewis HorneSalt Lake Citations
Tim BehrendThin Ice
Ken RainesEmma’s Anguish
Emma Lou ThayneJoseph to Emma
Emma Lou ThayneWinter Dies
N. Andrew SpackmanIndian Summer
Holly WelkerPah Tempe
Sally StratfordParched
Amy E. JensenIn Riverdale
Linda SillitoeIn a Pueblo Indian Dwelling, Four-Corners
Amy E. JensenAnhedonia
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