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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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80 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “And I Remember He’s My Father”
Posted on October 24, 2013 | 1 Comment"I'm Mormon, and as such, long / to scrub babies in sinks, / deliver vegetable casseroles to wakes, / find a husband willing to unclog drains." -
Parenthood Juggle: “You Don’t Need to Go To College”
Posted on April 3, 2013 | 8 CommentsSeek an education, but FIRST seek to get married and have children. Of course there was also the underlying suggestion that the husband's education would take priority. -
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 . . . " -
Twenty Years
Posted on December 19, 2012 | 4 CommentsI stumbled across this Facebook meme a couple months ago and sorta fell in love with it. I want to put it in a frame next to my girls’ beds so they can fall asleep every night seeing it. I don’t want them […] -
Grondahl Restored 44
Posted on December 2, 2012 | No CommentsIf you’d like to see other cartoons in this series go to https://dovesandserpents.org/category/columns/grondahl-restored/ ; This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of The Sunstone Foundation, the publisher, and Calvin Grondahl. ; -
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 . . . " -
Single Experiences: A Little House Just For Me
Posted on October 31, 2012 | 8 CommentsWe've all heard of stories where the husband is asked whether or not the wife could hold a calling or would be interested in doing xyz. -
14 Psaltery & Lyre: Christine Butterworth-McDermott, “Wedding Cake”
Posted on September 6, 2012 | 5 CommentsChristine Butterworth-McDermott is an associate professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she teaches creative writing, fairy tales, and act as the poetry editor of REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters, a national literary magazine. -
Grondahl Restored 31
Posted on August 25, 2012 | 4 CommentsFor other cartoons in this series, click here. This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of The Sunstone Foundation and Calvin Grondahl. -
Teaching Sex: I Apologize
Posted on June 2, 2012 | 8 CommentsI apologize after sex. Yes, I literally say, "I'm sorry." Actually I have come a long way in recent years about uttering the actual phrase. . . -
Favorites: Heroic Aspirations, Gay Marriage, and the Mormon Church
Posted on October 9, 2011 | 8 CommentsThis is a guest post I wrote nearly a year ago. . . DHO is still running around arguing that the proper practice of our religion requires us to work to prevent marginalized groups from exercising their basic civil rights. . . -
Book Lover
Posted on September 6, 2011 | 7 CommentsI’m not afraid to admit it. I have a problem. I’m addicted to books. I thought I had kept it hidden for many years, but when my wife finally catches me looking at the most recent Library of America catalogue with lust in my eyes, […] -
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on your Wrath
Posted on August 24, 2011 | 3 CommentsIs anyone else skeptical when older people who have been married for a long time say that they have never fought with each other? This seems preposterous to me (although I confess that Brent does refer to me as the “Queen of Incredulity” because I […] -
The Husband and Wife Summer Book Club
Posted on August 2, 2011 | 21 CommentsI've written in the past about how different our literary taste tends to be. We are reliable (and not always complimentary) opposites. -
We Are Pioneers
Posted on July 28, 2011 | 4 CommentsAs I was telling my Kindergartner earlier this month that we're all pioneers in some way. Whenever we stand up for what we believe in or do something because we know inside it's a good thing to do, we are pioneers. -
A Twist on “Pioneer Day”
Posted on July 27, 2011 | 2 CommentsWhen it was announced that gays and lesbians would be allowed to marry in New York beginning on July 24, my first thought–as a lifelong Mormon–was, “Pioneer Day!” While we’ve been talking about pioneers this week on Doves & Serpents, I have loved reading […] -
I Love the Smell of K-Y Warming Jelly ® in the Morning, or, Marital Apocalypse Delayed
Posted on June 10, 2011 | 8 CommentsAlthough best known for “The Seventh Seal” and other serious “art house” films, I suggest Ingmar Bergman’s best work is his delightful “Smiles of a Summer Night.” Whether you watch it as a momentary diversion from a sweltering evening this summer or view it as […] -
BUTT-erfly T-shirts for Mother’s Day
Posted on May 4, 2011 | 13 CommentsMy first child was born on January 5. The months between her birth and Mother’s Day were, um, let’s just say they were difficult. She cried all day long and into the night. We spent hours pacing the halls with her while she screamed, listening […] -
An Unlikely Prayer of Thanksgiving
Posted on April 6, 2011 | 9 CommentsLast summer, Brent and Stuart went to get a haircut. While there, the stylist discovered that Stuart had lice (gasp!). We soon discovered that Marin also had it (double gasp!). Kennedy managed to escape unscathed. From my perspective growing up, it seemed like the only […] -
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? -
Heroic Aspirations, Gay Marriage, and the Mormon Church
Posted on February 23, 2011 | 73 CommentsThis guest post is written by Brent D. Beal, whose marriage to Heather Olson Beal is not at all threatened by the idea of same-sex marriage. My name is Brent Beal. I’ve been married for eighteen years. My wife and I have three […] -
Playing Valentine
Posted on February 14, 2011 | 213 CommentsLegend has it that one of the roots of Valentine’s Day stem from a third century ban on marriage passed by Roman emperor Claudius II who thought married men made poor soldiers. A priest named Valentine continued the marriage tradition by marrying couples in secret, […] -
Arranged
Posted on October 22, 2010 | 19 CommentsStefan Schaefer’s Arranged (2007) is a beautiful presentation of the ordinary life of women in patriarchal religions, and gently portrays the way that they find choice in their religious adherence. Based on the real-life story of Yuta Silverman, Rochel Meshenberg (Zoe Lister-Jones) portrays a young […]