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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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death Archive
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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." -
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 . . . " -
3 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “The Death of Ginny”
Posted on June 21, 2012 | 11 CommentsSarah Dunster is an award-winning poet and fiction writer. Her poems have been published in Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought, Segullah Magazine, and Victorian Violet Press. -
Do You Realize?
Posted on October 9, 2011 | 1 CommentTwo powerful iconic men – Steve Jobs, technology visionary, and Fred Shuttlesworth, Civil Rights movement activist – died this week. While Shuttlesworth’s death was certainly mourned and reported on, it was Jobs’ death at age 56 that received the lion’s share of global attention. Over […] -
Finding Peace
Posted on September 22, 2011 | 4 CommentsForgiveness. As babies and young children, we can’t help but forgive those that wrong us. We have no choice…. we are too dependent. But somehow along the path to adulthood (and independence) we lose that. Maybe rightly so- I think there […] -
Crash Test
Posted on September 1, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe thought of any inexperienced driver in charge of a 4,000 pound machine makes me very nervous, but anticipating my own flesh-and-blood inexperienced driver sends me almost into a panic. -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Posted on August 19, 2011 | 9 CommentsI am here one day, and on the next, I am gone. Yet I am part of a community, a society, and a species, that will continue after I am dead. I live in the immeasurable debt and preparation of those who have gone before, […] -
The Rabbit Hole
Posted on August 12, 2011 | 6 CommentsToday’s guest post was written by Amanda Mixon, a graduate student of English at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. This is where John Cameron Mitchell’s (director) Rabbit Hole takes us: the mourning process; in media res. An adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s play of […] -
I, Heather Kathleen Olson Beal, Being of Sound Mind and Body
Posted on July 20, 2011 | 18 CommentsA few months ago, Brent and I finally managed to complete a task that has been on our to-do list for-gulp-14.5 years. We had a will drawn up (and other sad-ish documents like a power of attorney, a living will, etc.). Why 14.5 years? Our […] -
Operation Stop Arm
Posted on July 15, 2011 | 4 CommentsMy neighbor Sheri and I watched motorists pass our children's school bus for years. We took video, called the police, reported tag numbers, complained to the public school department of transportation, pleaded with the PTA for attention to this matter. We were met with "there is nothing we can do" around every single corner. -
Fff… family
Posted on April 19, 2011 | No CommentsI 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 we should not need reminding) and that for some people, celebrations that revolve around families are not celebrations at all. -
The Fountain
Posted on March 4, 2011 | 15 CommentsHow much recompense can mythology -- or even the scientific comforts of persistence of the body -- provide in the face of human yearning? -
Moon
Posted on February 18, 2011 | 12 CommentsToday’s post on ‘Rogue Cinema’ is a collaboration between Matt and Andy. “WHERE ARE WE NOW?” If you’ve seen 2001: A Space Odyssey you’ll find many similarities between the mood, the sets, the characters, the landscapes and even the plot devices found in Moon; so […] -
Mirror
Posted on February 5, 2011 | 9 CommentsWhen the Universe ends-or re-begins?-how will we know? Who will write the history of it? And what is the basis of any hope that anyone would care to read it? -
Memorial
Posted on January 5, 2011 | 2 CommentsThis week Heather visited the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial. On a large wall she found inscribed these words: “We come here to remember those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever. May all who leave here know the impact of violence. […] -
Lamb Chop In The Sky
Posted on December 18, 2010 | 4 CommentsIf a boy becomes a man and can still feel the tug of an emotion from across 40 years, one may guess that the experience was profound - and so it was. -
Blessed Eve, Mother of All Living
Posted on November 13, 2010 | 8 CommentsThe opposite of life is not death, rather never knowing. Yet knowledge has been called a forbidden fruit and a poison … the root of all evil … a bitter token of death. And Eve, she who was tempted to partake, has been made to […] -
Seeing
Posted on October 23, 2010 | 18 CommentsClouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line ...