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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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death Archive
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59 Psaltery & Lyre: James A. Clark, “Elegy for a Stranger”
“God, what a shame / to die so young. Soon after, the rain came. / Fat, angry drops began... -
52 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “There is a certain comfort”
“There is a certain peace / to feel your feet planted / in the place where they will stop /... -
3 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “The Death of Ginny”
Sarah Dunster is an award-winning poet and fiction writer. Her poems have been published in Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon... -
Do You Realize?
Two powerful iconic men – Steve Jobs, technology visionary, and Fred Shuttlesworth, Civil Rights movement activist – died this week.... -
Finding Peace
Forgiveness. As babies and young children, we can’t help but forgive those that wrong us. We have no... -
Crash Test
The thought of any inexperienced driver in charge of a 4,000 pound machine makes me very nervous, but anticipating my... -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I am here one day, and on the next, I am gone. Yet I am part of a community, a... -
The Rabbit Hole
Today’s guest post was written by Amanda Mixon, a graduate student of English at Texas State University in San Marcos,... -
I, Heather Kathleen Olson Beal, Being of Sound Mind and Body
A few months ago, Brent and I finally managed to complete a task that has been on our to-do list... -
Operation Stop Arm
My neighbor Sheri and I watched motorists pass our children’s school bus for years. We took video, called the police,... -
Fff… family
I just read this today and loved it: http://www.literarymama.com/columns/perfectlynormal/archives/2011/ffffamily.html A great reminder that not all families look alike (which clearly... -
The Fountain
How much recompense can mythology — or even the scientific comforts of persistence of the body — provide in the... -
Moon
Today’s post on ‘Rogue Cinema’ is a collaboration between Matt and Andy. “WHERE ARE WE NOW?” If you’ve seen 2001:... -
Mirror
When the Universe ends-or re-begins?-how will we know? Who will write the history of it? And what is the basis... -
Memorial
This week Heather visited the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial. On a large wall she found inscribed these words: “We come... -
Lamb Chop In The Sky
If a boy becomes a man and can still feel the tug of an emotion from across 40 years, one... -
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... -
Seeing
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning...