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- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
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- 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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Crazy all of the time
A friend of mine recently said, “None of us gets the luxury of being independent of our context.” As much... -
Device
Birthdays are a natural time to put one’s current moment into the perspective of history. This past week I’m realizing... -
Revolutionary Road
What does it mean to be a woman? -
What if God Were One of Us?
We try to equalize as much as possible, because I know that’s how God sees us. There is not... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 19
Tommy’s always been a one for cheerful status updates. -
“Aren’t you afraid you’re going to turn him gay?”
“Aren’t you afraid you’re going to turn him gay?” I’ve been asked this question many times. The first few... -
Seminal Works — Gilead
This meditative novel is an examination of faith, humanity and the unbearable beauty of everyday life; it is impossible to... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 18
Elijah Abel sees something unexpected on Brigham’s ‘feed’… -
Not Dead Yet
I’ve come to believe I must be half Mormon-girl, half rebel. I’m a sucker for a theme, a central idea... -
The Places That Scare You
“Confess your hidden faults. Approach what you find repulsive. Help those you think you cannot help. Anything you are attached... -
Blessed Eve, Mother of All Living
The opposite of life is not death, rather never knowing. Yet knowledge has been called a forbidden fruit and a... -
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
We all occasionally construct protective layers around our emotions, convinced that forgetting will negate the trouble of pain, the complications... -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 17
It’s an apostle. It’s a vegetable. It’s a heavenly combination! -
To Hear and Be Heard
Departing from the standard brief personal essay, today I’d like to introduce you all to my friend Allison Mitchell, founder... -
Care to join me for guitar practice, anyone?
But when you have three kids who all have to be in three different places at the same time, the... -
Being Awesome
You cannot try to be awesome, you must be awesome….that is the law of awesome -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 16
William Law is ‘linking’ to the Expositor. -
Enough is enough
Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken... -
Top 10 Principles of Happiness That I was Never taught at Church
1. Don’t believe everything you think. Putting aside all past conditioning — if that’s even possible – ask yourself, “Who... -
A Man of Letters
Everything I have learned about God is written in a book. In fact, it’s difficult to imagine how my worldview... -
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... -
Adventures in the Hill Country
These photographs were taken by Amanda Mixon, who is currently studying for an MA in English at Texas State University. -
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... -
Mother and Daughter
This photograph was taken by our very own O’Q, whose combination of High Dynamic Range photography with the depth of... -
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... -
Stone at Beauvoir
These pictures were taken by Erika Rebstock: a therapist, a do-it-yourself-home-renovator extraordinaire, a Diet Dr. Pepper addict (/aficionado?), and the... -
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!” -
Scenes from Europe
Alina Taylor took these photographs while travelling in France and Spain. -
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... -
Through a Glass, Textured Seasons
Jeremi Broadhurst captured these beautiful glimpses of nature, in her distinctive style. -
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...