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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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73 Psaltery & Lyre: Kayla Haas, “I Am Not Vanilla”
Posted on August 22, 2013 | 2 Comments"Put me in a ruby red / corset and lace me up like pleather / knee high boots. Measure my thighs / in degrees of sexiness and run a tongue / under my ear lobe to make me shiver." -
72 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “Silences”
Posted on August 15, 2013 | 1 Comment"A dog sits silent. Her gaze shafts up / in study of her master's face; / nostrils twitch and forelegs quiver - / she waits the crinkle of a smile, / the open hand that reaches down, / that turns her silence to a lick . . . ." -
71 Psaltery & Lyre: Kayla Haas, “An Elegy for the Phoebe Caulfield of the South”
Posted on August 8, 2013 | 2 Comments"Bring back fireflies in mason jars, / bring your bell curls as blonde / as blonde could be." -
70 Psaltery & Lyre: Becky Sirrine, “The Martinet”
Posted on August 1, 2013 | 1 Comment"Colors are brighter, and the days / are far too short. / People look at me / As if there's something different in my face. . . ." -
69 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “Amtrak to SAC”
Posted on July 27, 2013 | No Comments"The next pier is blackened by once living flames. / Then a rusted mount of steampunk in the brackish waters. / So many broken teeth reaching from the brackish shallows. . . ." -
68 Psaltery & Lyre: M. Brett Gaffney, “Salt Girl”
Posted on July 21, 2013 | 3 Comments"Wind / scattered my crystals / to the lands beyond our city. . . ." -
Book Review: Salt
Posted on July 11, 2013 | 5 Comments"Each poem in this collection is a little jack-in-the-box, tightly coiled and waiting to spring." -
67 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “God”
Posted on July 7, 2013 | No Comments"God / was here this morning while I was out . . . " -
66 Psaltery & Lyre: Becky Sirrine, “Night Sky”
Posted on June 27, 2013 | 4 Comments"To look out into space is to look back in time." -
65 Psaltery & Lyre: Kay Porter, “The Lamb’s Vision”
Posted on June 20, 2013 | 2 Comments"The water rose over my torso, washing / away the dirt and sin. It crept up, over my chin, / engulfing the stubbled cheeks, caressing my scalp / like a lover . . ." -
64 Psaltery & Lyre: James A. Clark, “The Captain”
Posted on June 13, 2013 | 3 Comments"I listened, breathless, to his stories of the sea. / I rode with him on remembered waves, / imagined the taste of salty air . . ." -
63 Psaltery & Lyre: Annaliese Wagner, “There are Volcanoes in Iceland”
Posted on June 6, 2013 | No Comments"They must look like chalices toasted / by tectonic plates, their lava must taste like red wine. / They bubble like witches' caldrons, stirring up trouble . . ." -
62 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “Rifflection: ‘To His Mistress Going to Bed’ by John Donne”
Posted on May 30, 2013 | 1 Comment"My favorite part is when you take political control and License / my roving hands, and let them go / Behind, before, above, between, below, / Turning you from queen to America, my new found land . . ." -
61 Psaltery & Lyre: Kay Porter, “Mother Mold”
Posted on May 23, 2013 | 4 Comments"Palm to palm, / hands clasped in front of unbeating hearts, / they look over their congregation / never quite meeting the eyes / of the men that long for them but settle / for the farmer's daughter . . ." -
60 Psaltery & Lyre: Jeremy Windham, “Goliath in Love”
Posted on May 16, 2013 | No Comments"Summer has never gifted me with love, / the sparkling spell of July's golden hand / does not know my shoulders. . . ." -
59 Psaltery & Lyre: James A. Clark, “Elegy for a Stranger”
Posted on May 9, 2013 | 1 Comment"God, what a shame / to die so young. Soon after, the rain came. / Fat, angry drops began to pelt and sting / my skin." -
58 Psaltery & Lyre: Annaliese Wagner, “The Pathway to the Sun”
Posted on May 2, 2013 | No Comments"I am running away / from my new home, / past the blue green / chlorine pool where / the big kids play. Away / from the rat faced girl / who made fun of my accent . . ." -
57 Psaltery & Lyre: Elizabeth Pinborough, “The Egret and the Faun”
Posted on April 25, 2013 | No Comments"Her dress is white, scored with black squares. / There is matter in the pattern. / The pattern matters-" -
56 Psaltery & Lyre: Jeremy Windham, “Boy Raised Gorgon”
Posted on April 18, 2013 | 1 Comment"But if our strengths are measured / with a gaze, observe the statues / our beholders will become, / wide-eyed and petrified . . ." -
55 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “When She Prayed”
Posted on April 16, 2013 | 5 Comments"I heard the angels' joyous song / An ancient temple's brassy gong / Bagpipes, trombones sang along / When she prayed" -
54 Psaltery & Lyre: James A. Clark, “Succession”
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No Comments"I used to stand with him / among the budding clover. / I was King of the Park / and the young prince / rode my shoulders." -
Book Review: Her Side of It
Posted on April 7, 2013 | No CommentsIn honor of national poetry month (hooray for April!), we will be featuring a poetry book review once a week. This week's pick: Her Side of It, by Marilyn Bushman-Carlton. -
53 Psaltery & Lyre: Annaliese Wagner, “Arizona Is Built On Geometry”
Posted on April 4, 2013 | 1 Comment"The rectangles and squares of adobe houses / bake under blazing heat. The perpendicular / lines of crucifixes are etched with names / lost and ignored . . ." -
52 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “There is a certain comfort”
Posted on March 28, 2013 | 5 Comments"There is a certain peace / to feel your feet planted / in the place where they will stop / the hop skip jump of life . . . " -
51 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, Two Poems
Posted on March 21, 2013 | No Comments"She stood short of the ford, / dainty footed, silken kimono / splashed red against the mud and autumn dun." -
50 Psaltery & Lyre: Ed Snow, “On Hearing ‘God Willing’ by the Dropkick Murphys for the First Time”
Posted on March 14, 2013 | No Comments"Twelve Irishmen scream / from gastrointestinal pain, / thrash splintered guitars, / race headlong down dark stairs . . ." -
49 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “The Laying On of Hands”
Posted on March 7, 2013 | 5 Comments"Tonight, in this chair / you bow your head / as if being crowned, / the tiara of my fingers / settling on your hair." -
48 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “The pivot”
Posted on February 28, 2013 | 2 Comments"And would I not feel diminished / a little, were that plant to die? ~ / just as I sense concern to see / the leaves on three or four twig-clusters / lately turned from green to dun? / I am already lessened." -
47 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “Skull-locked”
Posted on February 21, 2013 | 1 Comment"o quiet indweller / can we ever / know if you / be more / than skull-locked?" -
46 Psaltery & Lyre: Elizabeth Pinborough, “Ciggy”
Posted on February 14, 2013 | 1 Comment"Smoldering and cold, my little cigarette, / empty and old, my little smoke stick." -
45 Psaltery & Lyre: Poet Laureate Highlight
Posted on February 7, 2013 | 2 CommentsDo you know who the current Poet Laureate of Utah is? Watch this video! -
44 Psaltery & Lyre: Alex Wiggins, “Clumps”
Posted on January 31, 2013 | 1 Comment"Cloudy, he recalls / his late night study of it, in the liquid / too liquid there were little jelly clumps / like the half-dried hair gel that clung to the / lid back before his hair graduated / with honors." -
43 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Skin Dive”
Posted on January 24, 2013 | 1 Comment"We are not furred like dogs / or feathered like ducks, no / rows of scales clog our touch / like tree bark . . . " -
42 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “Prince of Peace”
Posted on January 20, 2013 | No Comments"Plucked and torn / and capped in thorn / that sprig was hung / from cross bar slung / with ache of nails." -
41 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “Sons”
Posted on January 17, 2013 | 3 Comments"I believe / you put the compass in me, / you are the needle / that directs us on the / path to godhood; . . . " -
40 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “From Zina to Henry”
Posted on January 13, 2013 | 8 Comments"Miles away my lips / taste the prophet's skin / moist with salt . . . " -
39 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “To a Black Velvet Jesus”
Posted on January 10, 2013 | 5 Comments"At the flea market today I called You Lord of the Fleas / and my lover laughed . . . " -
38 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith”
Posted on January 3, 2013 | 3 Comments"If I were permitted selfishness, I'd ask God to / catch a ram inside a thicket, send an angel down / to smite the chains that bind my will." -
37 Psaltery & Lyre: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, “There Will Be Poetry,” translated by Charles Patterson
Posted on December 30, 2012 | No Comments"the sun dresses the tattered clouds / in fire and gold . . ." -
36 Psaltery & Lyre: Alex Wiggins, “Sometimes I Fear”
Posted on December 27, 2012 | 1 Comment"Sometimes I fear a body knows when it's dying / and relays urgency to the brain / to make a flourish of praise . . ." -
35 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “We Gather Together”
Posted on December 23, 2012 | No Comments"I've practiced this before, like hard dough rolled / in sugar: how we sweeten survival." -
34 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “Herald”
Posted on December 20, 2012 | No Comments" . . . bringing sick, / terrible knowledge and that grey uncertainty / of the world at an end-how it could come / when nobody realizes nobody hears . . ." -
33 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Aesthetics Seminar as the Last Supper”
Posted on December 16, 2012 | No Comments" . . . seconds when we believed our little thoughts / were stars pricking through a black canopy. / Stars we thought we could sail by to some new home, / a port both necessary and sufficient. . . . " -
32 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “Soft”
Posted on December 13, 2012 | 5 Comments"The doctrine is an egg / in its shell / I can't swallow / God . . . " -
31 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Jesus Is Coming Back”
Posted on December 6, 2012 | 6 Comments"He is walking home from the church in our skulls / knocking the halo from his head . . ." -
30 Psaltery & Lyre: Elizabeth Pinborough, “Recantation”
Posted on November 29, 2012 | No Comments"A wickedness presses / in my breast. I cannot / pluck it out. It is a rolled up / Torah scroll I cannot read." -
29 Psaltery & Lyre: Alex Wiggins, “Cleaning our keyboard”
Posted on November 22, 2012 | No Comments"It's weird how we erode. / In the valleys, shed pieces of me / fell from busy fingertips and mingled / with cracker crumbs, bacon bits, / stranded grains of rice . . . " -
28 Psaltery & Lyre: Kris Bluth, “Truth of Consequences”
Posted on November 19, 2012 | No Comments"She called me at 11:00 on / Saturday night and asked if / I could have sex with her." -
27 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “it starts”
Posted on November 15, 2012 | 1 CommentAngela Felsted is a musician, poet, and nature lover. Her work has appeared in issue fifteen of Drown in Your Own Fears, in Chantarelle's Notebook, and on her blog. -
26 Psaltery & Lyre: Kris Bluth, “What’s Playing on God’s iPod?”
Posted on November 12, 2012 | 1 Comment"Falling snow without wind . . ." -
25 Psaltery & Lyre: Ed Snow, “By the Relish”
Posted on November 8, 2012 | No CommentsBy the relish apparent in the eyes of patrons at Bottega's pearl café, I expect to see, barely in disguise, a celebrity alight this bright day. . . -
24 Psaltery & Lyre: Kris Bluth, Two Poems
Posted on November 5, 2012 | 2 Comments"he likes to say that our heavenly mother is so sacred we shouldn't even talk about her . . ." -
23 Psaltery & Lyre: Bennett Durkan, Two Poems
Posted on November 1, 2012 | No Comments"You hope these ghosts / know how to respect your privacy." -
22 Psaltery & Lyre: Kris Bluth, “Pumpkin”
Posted on October 29, 2012 | No Comments"If we had carved / that jack o'lantern, / it would have been / pudding . . ." -
21 Psaltery & Lyre: Cheryl L. Bruno, “Severed Savior”
Posted on October 25, 2012 | 2 Comments"his love slashing / a cross-hatch in my / heart . . ." -
20 Psaltery & Lyre: Joshua Lyons, Two Poems
Posted on October 18, 2012 | 1 Comment"I lay down in my bed, nobody / beside me tonight because / I have the boy." -
19 Psaltery & Lyre: Tyler Chadwick, “Upon Hearing Elder B– Bear Witness that ‘Satan is Real’ to a Mormon Congregation the Second Sunday of 2011”
Posted on October 11, 2012 | 1 Comment" . . . I imagined [God's pew] empty, imagined him out fishing the Snake, waves lapping at his waders like a dog left alone all day . . . " -
18 Psaltery & Lyre: Aaron Michael Kline, “Texas Bamboo Summer”
Posted on October 4, 2012 | 2 Comments"I'd thought bamboo / was a symbol of peace, but my young / cousins proved me wrong . . ." -
17 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “Recovery”
Posted on September 27, 2012 | 1 Comment"You've kissed a / wolf before; his black lips curled . . ." -
16 Psaltery & Lyre: M. Brett Gaffney, “Communion”
Posted on September 20, 2012 | 3 CommentsM. Brett Gaffney graduated with a BA in English from Stephen F. Austin University and is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.