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- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
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- 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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Mormon Fakebook Update: 15
Leisure time for the Prez. -
The Exorcist
Friedkin’s film is trying to tell us this: decay, ugliness, suffering and evil exist. And they’re not just someone else’s... -
Duped?
I was pleased to have given away my fourth lunch, but in retelling the story, I began having doubts.... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 14
Orson Hyde is goin’ on a mission. -
On living my confirmation
I took a course as a Ph.D. student called “Engendering Curriculum History.” I was 30-something, had three kids (ages... -
15 Favorite …
Personally, I’m a sucker for these lists. I seem to be constitutionally incapable of resisting them, even though they’re hardly... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 13
Lorenzo and GBH have crossed wires! :s -
Sunday Morning Comics
To a recovering claustrophobic , the crowds that day at the national mall were intense, a sea of people so... -
What is Yoga?
In my experience growing up in America, in my particular demographic, it seemed that everyone knows what yoga is. Most... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 12
Getting to know Joseph through his FB updates. -
Golem
There is a story among my people of the time before. It is a story meant to answer the youthful... -
Quentin Tarantino: ‘Pulp Fiction’
Tarantino’s masterpiece ‘Pulp Fiction’ explores the space between natural phenomena and those inexplicable events that escape reasoned justification. -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 11
Corianton is ‘in a relationship’! -
Spreading Good Cheer
I called out- “I have a lunch!” With out missing a beat, he replied, “Not anymore you don’t!” -
Fei Hua (Chinese for “wasted words”)
I got to my office one morning and this cartoon was taped to my door: I knew right away who... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 10
Zelph has something to add. -
A Guide to Life
One day, when I was about nine-years-old and in this mode, I came across a book that would change my... -
Drawn Like Moths to Light
. . . if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with... -
The Secret Power of Yoga
It’s easy to see the obvious benefits of yoga: a supple body, increased strength, and stress relief to name a... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 9
Brother Brigham has been updating his FB sidebar… -
Seeing
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning... -
Arranged
Stefan Schaefer’s Arranged (2007) is a beautiful presentation of the ordinary life of women in patriarchal religions, and gently portrays... -
Do-er or Hear-er?
What in your life shows that you are a do-er, and not just a hear-er? -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 8
An image has been discovered in the FB archives. -
Urban Camping Part II
My husband had just offered me the deal of the century: one month, completely kid-free, so that I could... -
Keeping My Hand In
Four years on, I’m in a slump and I’m really just keeping my hand in. -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 7
Where’s Noah this time? Pics are on FB! :) -
I’ll Have What She’s Having
A friend of mine in college told me he could never marry a vegetarian because he loved to explore different... -
The Go-To Goddess
“What does God look like?” I asked my little girl as I tucked her into bed. “Well, he is old,... -
Foreplay/Long Time
How the mind trips on time. This message was set to appear live on the web at 11 AM GMT... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 6
Recommendations from the Prophet Joseph’s ‘visual bookshelf’. -
Werner Herzog: ‘Grizzly Man’
Herzog’s journey into the 100 hours of film footage taken by the ‘Grizzly Man’ Timothy Treadwell offers us an expedition... -
Anticipation
We were on our way to church as a family, and I thought it would be a good... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 5
Special post-Conference access to the President of the LDS Church’s Facebook account has been acquired. -
Urban Camping Part I
My husband and I have tried lots of different divisions of parental responsibilities over almost 14 years. When we... -
Follow the Prophet
When we enter the world of art, we are at war and our choices can either be an act of... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 4
Facebook updates from upstate New York, in the early nineteenth century. -
Everyone Loves a Parade
Backed by a clear blue sky, the sun shone down as if to bless the events from on high. Thousands... -
Chasing God
There are times in our lives when we shift. When we become so aware of the beliefs in our lives... -
Forgotten
Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul laments Humbert Humbert. The recollection of Lolita draws... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 3
‘Help Needed’ in Missouri! -
Richard Linklater: ‘Waking Life’
Richard Linklater’s Waking Life (2001) is, even for such an unusual director, an unusual film. From the very beginning, the... -
The First Lunch
A middle-aged Hispanic man is walking past the car where I pull up to the light. He sits down on... -
Around the Dinner Table: What’s a family?
While digging through the pile of papers in my seven-year-old’s backpack, I came across a copy of a page from... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 2
President Packer has been in the news this week. We have access to his Facebook updates. -
Tasteless
I think I’ve started to lose my taste. For years, I’ve prided myself on having good taste in books. I... -
The Danger with Playing It Safe
A common joke amongst us Mormons is the idea that every prayer we offer at church includes the phrase “may... -
Our Sanctuary
I was sitting on the grass reading during my son’s soccer practice, when an older man took a break from... -
Cipher on a Wall: Of Mind, Memories, and Dreams
The mind is a stage. Does this sound familiar? Descartes continues: where ideas are illuminated by the inner light of... -
Rogue Cinema
Fridays on ‘Doves and Serpents’ are film nights. That means you can get your popcorn, or equivalent snackfood, and follow...