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- 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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Psaltery & Lyre Archive
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Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
Posted on December 28, 2016 | 1 CommentAfter 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
Posted on May 2, 2016 | 1 Comment"The escaped runs toward home, and as it runs it turns into a golden boy, then a golden man, then the parents transform, too." -
122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
Posted on April 28, 2016 | No Comments"Make it more than bread and wine-- / more than unleavened and red / --lace your heart into mine." -
Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
Posted on March 7, 2016 | No Comments"We lift the blinds, look out into ink / For light. My God, my God, open the spine binding our sight" (97). Whether or not you're a believer, after reading these poems, you'll be praying these words in your own way. -
121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
Posted on March 6, 2016 | No Comments"infrared blues and oranges, / they've never seen a beauty like you." -
Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
Posted on February 22, 2016 | No CommentsMonica Ong elevates poetry to a new level, creating compositions that open up the genre and respond to the visual expediency of a digital era. -
120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
Posted on February 18, 2016 | 1 Comment"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
Posted on February 15, 2016 | No CommentsBe 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?
Posted on February 11, 2016 | No Comments"The danger of Harvey's recent book is that it can feel disjointed, like a summation of individual chapbooks or projects that have been lumped into a monograph." -
Book Review: LoterÃa Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
Posted on February 6, 2016 | No Comments"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”
Posted on February 6, 2016 | No Comments"Sheets of silver snow in the rearview mirror. / I leave loved ones behind, / knowing future loss will bring us back / to that same cemetery." -
Book Review: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee
Posted on January 18, 2016 | 1 CommentCha's is an unwelcoming text. It shoves back, sometimes with short, chopped up sentences, and other times with opaque references and images. It shuts the door and clearly says, "PAS." -
118 Psaltery & Lyre: Matthew LaBrot, “Transfiguration”
Posted on December 22, 2015 | No Comments"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”
Posted on December 22, 2015 | No Comments"I step through my eyes, / onto the electrified track. / There I hop a current / and ride / like a homeless man / on the subway . . ." -
116 Psaltery & Lyre: Alex Spears, “Mountain Shepherd”
Posted on December 3, 2015 | 1 Comment"He keeps watch for wolves / beneath the fading sunlight / and is soothed by the soft bleating." -
115 Psaltery & Lyre: Matthew LaBrot, “Sacred Heart”
Posted on December 2, 2015 | 2 Comments"I recite the included Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus / and spend the rest of the night wondering / if this glowing, anatomically incorrect version of / Christ can comfort me or keep me safe." -
114 Psaltery & Lyre: Becky Sirrine, “Walk”
Posted on October 22, 2015 | No Comments"I reach my hungry hands / to the clean heavens. / The singing voice / no longer silenced / sounds clear." -
113 Psaltery & Lyre: Trisha Kc Buel Wheeldon, “A Girl, Now Mother”
Posted on July 30, 2015 | 1 Comment"Now she knows / What it is like to lactate. [. . .] / To cry honey white tears from her chest." -
112 Psaltery & Lyre: Becky Sirrine, “Lesson”
Posted on July 15, 2015 | No Comments"All I have is one shining moment, / just before my face. ' -
111 Psaltery & Lyre: Becky Sirrine, “Read”
Posted on July 9, 2015 | No Comments"when the atoms in my brain / sighing with relief /release themselves wearily back / into the planet . . . " -
Open Call for Dove Song
Posted on June 14, 2015 | No CommentsPeculiar Pages is seeking submissions for a poetry anthology titled Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. -
110 Psaltery & Lyre: Ashton Nicole Allen, “Leftovers”
Posted on June 4, 2015 | No Comments"According to Japanese lore, / if one was to dine upon / the remains of a mermaid / they would live forever." -
109 Psaltery & Lyre: Ashton Nicole Allen, “Photons Fired”
Posted on May 28, 2015 | No Comments"I'm reading an article during church revealing how / after hours of test-subjects sat clammy-handed / in the dark, biologists determined yes, humans glow." -
108 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Page, “Terra Salis”
Posted on April 30, 2015 | 1 Comment"I slip deeper / Into Precambrian wilds where waves whip / Mounds of cloudy crystals onto banks, / Glossing Terra Firma into Terra Salis." -
107 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “Christmas Present”
Posted on December 18, 2014 | No Comments"God and his Goddess gave us their Son." -
106 Psaltery & Lyre: Tim Bryant, “Gods and Angels”
Posted on October 30, 2014 | No Comments"No Noah's flood or starlight from the east / can match the marvel found in humankind." -
105 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “Creator”
Posted on October 26, 2014 | 1 Comment"the magic is slow / but this god is patient . . ." -
104 Psaltery & Lyre: Christen Mattix, “Record Salmon Run at Mattole River”
Posted on October 23, 2014 | No Comments"(gills open and close) / in the circular act of breathing. . . ." -
103 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “After Party”
Posted on October 21, 2014 | 1 Comment"I'm dying to get to that curtain call, / to hold hands with the dearly departed . . . " -
102 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “Jesus Fishing the Styx”
Posted on August 14, 2014 | 1 Comment"Circles showing where briefly the / dead have surfaced / Their wide round eyes filling their / foreheads with baleful no-hope . . . " -
101 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “Some Seduction This”
Posted on July 24, 2014 | 2 Comments"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”
Posted on July 17, 2014 | 1 Comment"He lifts the veil, / lifts the embargo / on touching" -
99 Psaltery & Lyre: Cheryl L. Bruno, “Garden Games”
Posted on July 10, 2014 | No Comments"Elusive God of the garden, who, / when rain is roaring, winds are high, / delights in the playing of peek-a-boo . . ." -
Book Review: Field Notes on Language and Kinship
Posted on July 5, 2014 | 6 CommentsIn Field Notes on Language and Kinship, Chadwick gives us yet another gift: a companion book of notes to Fire in the Pasture. Sometimes these notes are original poems Chadwick composed while editing Fire. Before each of these poem-notes, Chadwick includes an introductory paragraph or so explaining the relationships between his poems and the poems in Fire. Chadwick is an excellent poet, and so these entries, for me, were particularly delightful to read. -
98 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “Ex Machina”
Posted on July 3, 2014 | No Comments"For He is the God of last gasps and swan songs / of sullen, grasping groans . . . " -
97 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “Song to be sung in times of famine, fear, and desolation”
Posted on June 9, 2014 | 15 Comments"Oh, Father, make it rain; / Oh, Mother, make it quick: / Pour out that balm again / And swift unsick what's sick." -
96 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “New Moon”
Posted on May 8, 2014 | 3 Comments"Mother, You are new moon / Reveal your glorious face / Give us Mother-knowledge soon . . ." -
95 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “The Lord’s Prayer”
Posted on May 1, 2014 | No Comments"Thy Kingdom come when it's time and everything, and not before or after, upon which score we'll just have to trust thee, not knowing the hour or the day . . ." -
94 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “God Filled the Earth with Tigers”
Posted on April 24, 2014 | No Comments; ; God Filled the Earth with Tigers God filled the earth with tigers; men and beasts warring for blood. He painted them with warning signs-what scarlet spots! In God we do not doubt; God filled the earth with tigers. The Father blessed his […] -
93 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “God is Great”
Posted on April 17, 2014 | 1 Comment"He / Hears and will consider prayers and tears, will / Weigh wildest hope and wilder worry in His palms / Will bear our heaviest burdens in His arms . . ." -
92 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “Interfaith Dialogue”
Posted on April 10, 2014 | No Comments"I punish you with silence. / The roads are empty and the silence / radiates out from our car as we drive . . ." -
91 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “Christology”
Posted on April 3, 2014 | 9 Comments"What if he were shepherd under guise, / The sleek and subtle mover of the worlds? / And moved among the worlds in our round world / In weird habiliments and forms unproud, / The gift and giver of the flaming word . . ." -
90 Psaltery & Lyre: John McDermott, “Nothing to Prove”
Posted on March 27, 2014 | No Comments"Which king brought myrrh to him, / in Bethlehem, how did he know / dull pain would be a gift / fit for a child thirty-three years / away from the waiting / cross?" -
89 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “Xenophilia”
Posted on March 6, 2014 | No Comments"I would bend myself into an / impossible position and look out through my heels, / my head where my feet ought to be, finding / new angles of humanity." -
88 Psaltery & Lyre: John McDermott, “Sunday Discount at the Texas Car Wash”
Posted on February 27, 2014 | 4 Comments"my daughter is eyeing / the bloody images on the racks of Christian t-shirts, / My God is Tougher than Nails reads one, / My Lifeguard Walks on Water declares another." -
87 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “Upon Attending a Yoga Class with My Husband”
Posted on January 9, 2014 | 1 Comment"We're on the floor moving like elephants, like cows, like our cats, like the very deliberate and slow." -
86 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Joseph’s Song”
Posted on December 18, 2013 | 2 Comments"I sang it once. Three hours / stacking crates in the belly of a U-Haul truck, / its snout facing dead west into a sunset / a carpenter would cut a window for." -
85 Psaltery & Lyre: John McDermott, “The Loaves and the Fishes”
Posted on November 28, 2013 | 2 Comments"How many people / have needlessly starved since that show-stopper?" -
84 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “Red Rock”
Posted on November 21, 2013 | 1 Comment"I meet an oblong angel with streaming wings, / drawn on rock. Ants trek across his feet." -
83 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “The Encounter”
Posted on November 14, 2013 | 3 Comments"The early light / makes mini suns in her curious eyes. / Wind rustles through her clever coat. / Then she is gone. . . ." -
82 Psaltery & Lyre: Kayla Haas, “Winter of 1997, Missouri”
Posted on November 7, 2013 | 1 Comment"She stares at marble / eyes, the deer gazing / beyond her maybe seeing Van / Gogh's Starry Night / upside down from the bed / of a pickup truck . . . " -
81 Psaltery & Lyre: M. Brett Gaffney, Two Poems
Posted on October 30, 2013 | No Comments"Leaves / like sloughed skin / beneath\her feet. / She walks faster." -
80 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “And I Remember He’s My Father”
Posted on October 24, 2013 | 1 Comment"I'm Mormon, and as such, long / to scrub babies in sinks, / deliver vegetable casseroles to wakes, / find a husband willing to unclog drains." -
79 Psaltery & Lyre: Rima VIII de Bécquer, translated by Charles Patterson
Posted on October 11, 2013 | No Comments"it seems possible to tear myself / from the miserable ground / and float with the golden mist, / in weightless atoms, / undone." -
78 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “Your Ex-Girlfriends Ruined All the Good Baby Names”
Posted on October 3, 2013 | 5 Comments"Forgive the walk in Central Park, / my pitter-pat over prams and kites and tiny shoes / the color of jelly beans. Forgive my weakness / for striped bellies, for onesied rumps pointed skyward." -
77 Psaltery & Lyre: Christen Mattix, For Longing [Cyanotype Blue]
Posted on September 26, 2013 | 1 Comment"your fingerprints stuck / to the tape like mushroom / spores or the dust / of a moth wing." -
Psaltery & Lyre in Print!
Posted on September 13, 2013 | No CommentsOur first print volume of Psaltery & Lyre is ready to come live at your house! It includes the outstanding poetry of Michael Hicks, Christine Butterworth-McDermott, Tyler Chadwick, Elizabeth Pinborough, M. Brett Gaffney, Aaron Michael Kline, and many more! Click HERE for more info. […] -
76 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “Peaceful Blessing”
Posted on September 12, 2013 | No Comments"I could not pick his speech, and asked / where he had come from. 'Afghanistan.' I told / how once his folk were honoured in this town, / their little mosque a glory, qibla tiled / deep blue." -
75 Psaltery & Lyre: Becky Sirrine, “An Original Thought”
Posted on September 5, 2013 | No Comments"Raised religious, / so many words, sentiments, / (buzzphrases, actually) / were programmed into me / little square holes of doctrine / like punches in old-style Hollerith cards . . ." -
74 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “Being a High-School Teacher Is a Great Disguise”
Posted on August 29, 2013 | 1 Comment"Being a high-school teacher is a great disguise . . . "