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Recent Posts
- Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
- 122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
- Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
- Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
- Book Review: LoterÃa Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
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Columns Archive
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Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
After four and half years with Doves and Serpents, Psaltery & Lyre has moved to its own website. -
123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
“The escaped runs toward home, and as it runs it turns into a golden boy, then a golden man, then... -
122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
“Make it more than bread and wine– / more than unleavened and red / –lace your heart into mine.” -
Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
“We lift the blinds, look out into ink / For light. My God, my God, open the spine binding our... -
121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
“infrared blues and oranges, / they’ve never seen a beauty like you.” -
Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
Monica Ong elevates poetry to a new level, creating compositions that open up the genre and respond to the visual... -
120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
“I aim to make you my best friend, / my home, / the jar that will house my electricity .... -
Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
Be warned: those protective layers you’ve carefully built up may be in danger of dissolution. -
Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
“The danger of Harvey’s recent book is that it can feel disjointed, like a summation of individual chapbooks or projects... -
Book Review: LoterÃa Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
“While the book contains splendidly intricate and intriguing linocuts on every other page, the poems are more or less forgettable.” -
119 Psaltery & Lyre: Matthew LaBrot, “St. Francis River”
“Sheets of silver snow in the rearview mirror. / I leave loved ones behind, / knowing future loss will bring... -
Book Review: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee
Cha’s is an unwelcoming text. It shoves back, sometimes with short, chopped up sentences, and other times with opaque references... -
118 Psaltery & Lyre: Matthew LaBrot, “Transfiguration”
“A lone lightning bug catches my gaze / and quickly I strike it down, / its body going thunk .... -
117 Psaltery & Lyre: Alex Spears “‘Til the end”
“I step through my eyes, / onto the electrified track. / There I hop a current / and ride /... -
116 Psaltery & Lyre: Alex Spears, “Mountain Shepherd”
“He keeps watch for wolves / beneath the fading sunlight / and is soothed by the soft bleating.” -
115 Psaltery & Lyre: Matthew LaBrot, “Sacred Heart”
“I recite the included Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus / and spend the rest of the night wondering... -
114 Psaltery & Lyre: Becky Sirrine, “Walk”
“I reach my hungry hands / to the clean heavens. / The singing voice / no longer silenced / sounds... -
113 Psaltery & Lyre: Trisha Kc Buel Wheeldon, “A Girl, Now Mother”
“Now she knows / What it is like to lactate. [. . .] / To cry honey white tears... -
My Own Personal Canon: Childhood House
Several years ago, in the midst of researching the process of canonization, or, how the Bible became what it is... -
112 Psaltery & Lyre: Becky Sirrine, “Lesson”
“All I have is one shining moment, / just before my face. ‘ -
111 Psaltery & Lyre: Becky Sirrine, “Read”
“when the atoms in my brain / sighing with relief /release themselves wearily back / into the planet .... -
Open Call for Dove Song
Peculiar Pages is seeking submissions for a poetry anthology titled Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. -
110 Psaltery & Lyre: Ashton Nicole Allen, “Leftovers”
“According to Japanese lore, / if one was to dine upon / the remains of a mermaid / they would... -
109 Psaltery & Lyre: Ashton Nicole Allen, “Photons Fired”
“I’m reading an article during church revealing how / after hours of test-subjects sat clammy-handed / in the dark, biologists... -
108 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Page, “Terra Salis”
“I slip deeper / Into Precambrian wilds where waves whip / Mounds of cloudy crystals onto banks, / Glossing Terra... -
Word up!
Energy.Follow through.Wherewithal. These are my words of the year from the years 2012, 2013, and 2014, as I’ve written... -
107 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “Christmas Present”
“God and his Goddess gave us their Son.” -
Interview with a Vampire
Vampire Weekend burst onto the indie pop scene in 2008 with an afro-tinged caribbean-flavored eponymous album. Almost immediately its world... -
The Rotting Forest Floor in Our Own Personal Sacred Groves
Earlier in the fall, I was visiting a ward in Austin, Texas with friends. The high council speaker genuinely surprised... -
106 Psaltery & Lyre: Tim Bryant, “Gods and Angels”
“No Noah’s flood or starlight from the east / can match the marvel found in humankind.” -
105 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “Creator”
“the magic is slow / but this god is patient . . .” -
104 Psaltery & Lyre: Christen Mattix, “Record Salmon Run at Mattole River”
“(gills open and close) / in the circular act of breathing. . . .” -
103 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “After Party”
“I’m dying to get to that curtain call, / to hold hands with the dearly departed . . . “ -
Church Hop: Reform Judaism
Leaves are changing color. Summer is ending. What started as a short season of church hopping will almost certainly continue,... -
Church Hop: Quaker
35 minutes of complete silence, followed by 25 minutes of what we would call “testimony meeting,” but without all the... -
Church Hop: Community of Christ
Even though the Community of Christ is something of a distant LDS cousin, the service felt nothing at all like... -
Russell M. Nelson: Culture Warrior (Face Palm)
Bigotry doesn’t have to be an extension of religious belief. -
102 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “Jesus Fishing the Styx”
“Circles showing where briefly the / dead have surfaced / Their wide round eyes filling their / foreheads with baleful... -
Church Hop: Unitarian Universalism
“Most conversion stories begin with the person having questions for which the Church is able to provide answers. His began... -
101 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “Some Seduction This”
“God / cross-dressed in death- / his shroud cinched at the waist, / skull rouged, scythe with matching / clutch.” -
100 Psaltery & Lyre: Christen Mattix, “Passage from Virgin to Bride”
“He lifts the veil, / lifts the embargo / on touching” -
Church Hop: First Congregational Church, UCC
“[T]his church’s main emphasis seems to be community and fellowship.” -
99 Psaltery & Lyre: Cheryl L. Bruno, “Garden Games”
“Elusive God of the garden, who, / when rain is roaring, winds are high, / delights in the playing of... -
Church Hop: The Episcopal Church
When my wife suggested that we try the Episcopal Church, I immediately started singing “I’m Henry the Eighth, I Am.”... -
Book Review: Field Notes on Language and Kinship
In Field Notes on Language and Kinship, Chadwick gives us yet another gift: a companion book of notes to Fire... -
98 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “Ex Machina”
“For He is the God of last gasps and swan songs / of... -
Church Hop: Introduction
“My husband and I have landed on the idea that we will try out different churches for the summer and... -
On Obedience
This poem by the beloved Mormon poet Carol Lynn Pearson has been haunting my waking and sleeping thoughts all week:... -
To the Mothers in Zion
As is so typical, those feminists (say it with derision, come on, you know you want to curl your upper... -
Room for All in this Church
We face a difficult and pivotal moment in Mormonism as LDS leaders and church members wrestle more openly with complicated...