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- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
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- 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?
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Michael Hicks Archive
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86 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Joseph’s Song”
Posted on December 18, 2013 | 2 Comments"I sang it once. Three hours / stacking crates in the belly of a U-Haul truck, / its snout facing dead west into a sunset / a carpenter would cut a window for." -
A Street-Legal Version of the Beatitudes
Posted on April 14, 2013 | 7 CommentsI am reading The Street-Legal Version of Mormon’s Book by BYU music professor Michael Hicks (and recently did a Mormon Stories Book Club podcast with him . . . stay tuned for its release). The book is not a translation of the Book of […] -
49 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “The Laying On of Hands”
Posted on March 7, 2013 | 5 Comments"Tonight, in this chair / you bow your head / as if being crowned, / the tiara of my fingers / settling on your hair." -
43 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Skin Dive”
Posted on January 24, 2013 | 1 Comment"We are not furred like dogs / or feathered like ducks, no / rows of scales clog our touch / like tree bark . . . " -
39 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “To a Black Velvet Jesus”
Posted on January 10, 2013 | 5 Comments"At the flea market today I called You Lord of the Fleas / and my lover laughed . . . " -
35 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “We Gather Together”
Posted on December 23, 2012 | No Comments"I've practiced this before, like hard dough rolled / in sugar: how we sweeten survival." -
33 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Aesthetics Seminar as the Last Supper”
Posted on December 16, 2012 | No Comments" . . . seconds when we believed our little thoughts / were stars pricking through a black canopy. / Stars we thought we could sail by to some new home, / a port both necessary and sufficient. . . . " -
31 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Jesus Is Coming Back”
Posted on December 6, 2012 | 6 Comments"He is walking home from the church in our skulls / knocking the halo from his head . . ."