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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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Like a Stone
These photographs were taken by Brent D. Beal of Wisdom Like a Stone, in Washington State. -
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,... -
Cara’s Story
A poem, by Andy. Perhaps this is your story, too. -
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’. -
‘Autumn Colours’
Ren took the photographs that make up this collage at the Quaking Bog in Wirth Park, Minneapolis. She said: ‘Autumn... -
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... -
Untitled Poem
Cheryl, who wrote this poem for Doves & Serpents, asked if our readership had any ideas for the title. Please... -
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... -
Moses and the Rock
Aaron Reeves is a doctoral student of Sociology, and the co-creator of ‘Crumpets and Decaff’, a publication and website that... -
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... -
Judgment Day
He wasn’t alarmed when she first turned up in his dreams, although, he thought it odd to see her there,... -
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... -
Twelve Lunches
What does the sign say, Mommy? -
Knit Together
When my middle daughter (whom we affectionately call “Mother Earth” because she’s always carrying on about recycling, saving the planet,... -
Stacks
There are stacks of books and CDs on almost every flat surface of my house. Next to my bed is... -
Original Poetry: ‘This Universe is Too Wide For Us’
We’re pleased to have original creative work on D&S from time to time. Here’s a short poem by Andy. -
Mormon Fakebook Update: 1
The first in an exciting and exclusive series of ‘Facebook updates’ from around the world of Mormon scripture and history. -
D&S 2
Sometimes it seems like there’s too much in the world to fit into seven little days. That’s how we feel,... -
What is The Wayfarer?
Sometimes you have to go before you know. Exploration begins with an open mind, an insistent drive and some ingenuity....