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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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80 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “And I Remember He’s My Father”
“I’m Mormon, and as such, long / to scrub babies in sinks, / deliver vegetable casseroles to wakes, / find... -
Parenthood Juggle: “You Don’t Need to Go To College”
Seek an education, but FIRST seek to get married and have children. Of course there was also the underlying... -
40 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “From Zina to Henry”
“Miles away my lips / taste the prophet’s skin / moist with salt . . . “ -
Twenty Years
I stumbled across this Facebook meme a couple months ago and sorta fell in love with it. I want... -
Grondahl Restored 44
If 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... -
29 Psaltery & Lyre: Alex Wiggins, “Cleaning our keyboard”
“It’s weird how we erode. / In the valleys, shed pieces of me / fell from busy fingertips and mingled... -
Single Experiences: A Little House Just For Me
We’ve all heard of stories where the husband is asked whether or not the wife could hold a calling or... -
14 Psaltery & Lyre: Christine Butterworth-McDermott, “Wedding Cake”
Christine Butterworth-McDermott is an associate professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she teaches creative writing, fairy... -
Grondahl Restored 31
For other cartoons in this series, click here. This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of The... -
Teaching Sex: I Apologize
I apologize after sex. Yes, I literally say, “I’m sorry.” Actually I have come a long way in recent years... -
Favorites: Heroic Aspirations, Gay Marriage, and the Mormon Church
This is a guest post I wrote nearly a year ago. . . DHO is still running around arguing that... -
Book Lover
I’m not afraid to admit it. I have a problem. I’m addicted to books. I thought I had kept it... -
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on your Wrath
Is anyone else skeptical when older people who have been married for a long time say that they have never... -
The Husband and Wife Summer Book Club
I’ve written in the past about how different our literary taste tends to be. We are reliable (and not always... -
We Are Pioneers
As I was telling my Kindergartner earlier this month that we’re all pioneers in some way. Whenever we stand up... -
A Twist on “Pioneer Day”
When it was announced that gays and lesbians would be allowed to marry in New York beginning on July 24,... -
I Love the Smell of K-Y Warming Jelly ® in the Morning, or, Marital Apocalypse Delayed
Although best known for “The Seventh Seal” and other serious “art house” films, I suggest Ingmar Bergman’s best work is... -
BUTT-erfly T-shirts for Mother’s Day
My first child was born on January 5. The months between her birth and Mother’s Day were, um, let’s just... -
An Unlikely Prayer of Thanksgiving
Last summer, Brent and Stuart went to get a haircut. While there, the stylist discovered that Stuart had lice (gasp!).... -
The Fountain
How much recompense can mythology — or even the scientific comforts of persistence of the body — provide in the... -
Heroic Aspirations, Gay Marriage, and the Mormon Church
This guest post is written by Brent D. Beal, whose marriage to Heather Olson Beal is not at all threatened... -
Playing Valentine
Legend has it that one of the roots of Valentine’s Day stem from a third century ban on marriage passed... -
Arranged
Stefan Schaefer’s Arranged (2007) is a beautiful presentation of the ordinary life of women in patriarchal religions, and gently portrays...