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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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poetry Archive
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36 Psaltery & Lyre: Alex Wiggins, “Sometimes I Fear”
Posted on December 27, 2012 | 1 Comment"Sometimes I fear a body knows when it's dying / and relays urgency to the brain / to make a flourish of praise . . ." -
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." -
34 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “Herald”
Posted on December 20, 2012 | No Comments" . . . bringing sick, / terrible knowledge and that grey uncertainty / of the world at an end-how it could come / when nobody realizes nobody hears . . ." -
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. . . . " -
32 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “Soft”
Posted on December 13, 2012 | 5 Comments"The doctrine is an egg / in its shell / I can't swallow / God . . . " -
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 . . ." -
30 Psaltery & Lyre: Elizabeth Pinborough, “Recantation”
Posted on November 29, 2012 | No Comments"A wickedness presses / in my breast. I cannot / pluck it out. It is a rolled up / Torah scroll I cannot read." -
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 . . . " -
28 Psaltery & Lyre: Kris Bluth, “Truth of Consequences”
Posted on November 19, 2012 | No Comments"She called me at 11:00 on / Saturday night and asked if / I could have sex with her." -
27 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “it starts”
Posted on November 15, 2012 | 1 CommentAngela Felsted is a musician, poet, and nature lover. Her work has appeared in issue fifteen of Drown in Your Own Fears, in Chantarelle's Notebook, and on her blog. -
25 Psaltery & Lyre: Ed Snow, “By the Relish”
Posted on November 8, 2012 | No CommentsBy the relish apparent in the eyes of patrons at Bottega's pearl café, I expect to see, barely in disguise, a celebrity alight this bright day. . . -
24 Psaltery & Lyre: Kris Bluth, Two Poems
Posted on November 5, 2012 | 2 Comments"he likes to say that our heavenly mother is so sacred we shouldn't even talk about her . . ." -
23 Psaltery & Lyre: Bennett Durkan, Two Poems
Posted on November 1, 2012 | No Comments"You hope these ghosts / know how to respect your privacy." -
22 Psaltery & Lyre: Kris Bluth, “Pumpkin”
Posted on October 29, 2012 | No Comments"If we had carved / that jack o'lantern, / it would have been / pudding . . ." -
21 Psaltery & Lyre: Cheryl L. Bruno, “Severed Savior”
Posted on October 25, 2012 | 2 Comments"his love slashing / a cross-hatch in my / heart . . ." -
20 Psaltery & Lyre: Joshua Lyons, Two Poems
Posted on October 18, 2012 | 1 Comment"I lay down in my bed, nobody / beside me tonight because / I have the boy." -
19 Psaltery & Lyre: Tyler Chadwick, “Upon Hearing Elder B– Bear Witness that ‘Satan is Real’ to a Mormon Congregation the Second Sunday of 2011”
Posted on October 11, 2012 | 1 Comment" . . . I imagined [God's pew] empty, imagined him out fishing the Snake, waves lapping at his waders like a dog left alone all day . . . " -
18 Psaltery & Lyre: Aaron Michael Kline, “Texas Bamboo Summer”
Posted on October 4, 2012 | 2 Comments"I'd thought bamboo / was a symbol of peace, but my young / cousins proved me wrong . . ." -
17 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “Recovery”
Posted on September 27, 2012 | 1 Comment"You've kissed a / wolf before; his black lips curled . . ." -
16 Psaltery & Lyre: M. Brett Gaffney, “Communion”
Posted on September 20, 2012 | 3 CommentsM. Brett Gaffney graduated with a BA in English from Stephen F. Austin University and is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. -
15 Psaltery & Lyre: Christine Butterworth-McDermott, “Holding Anna”
Posted on September 13, 2012 | 4 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. -
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. -
13 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “I Wear Pants to Church”
Posted on August 30, 2012 | 31 CommentsFor women, this isn't allowed. If I were my brother, no one would notice. I'm breaking the rules -
12 Psaltery & Lyre: Ed Snow, “The Danaid”
Posted on August 24, 2012 | No CommentsMy fingers glide across your nape, shoulders and waist. . . -
11 Psaltery & Lyre: Heather Olson Beal, “Quiver Full”
Posted on August 16, 2012 | 2 CommentsHeather Olson Beal is a regular blogger at D&S. See her complete bio on the "About Us" page. -
10 Psaltery & Lyre: Bennett Durkan, “State Colors”
Posted on August 9, 2012 | No CommentsBennett Durkan is pursuing an M.A. in English at Stephen F. Austin State University. -
9 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “The Cello String to God”
Posted on August 2, 2012 | 2 CommentsAngela Felsted is a musician, poet, and nature lover. Her work has appeared in issue fifteen of Drown in Your Own Fears, in Chantarelle's Notebook, and on her blog. Her chapbooks, CLEAVE and Scarred were published in 2012. You can visit her at www.angelafelsted.com. -
8 Psaltery & Lyre: Cheryl L. Bruno, “The Sister-Wife”
Posted on July 26, 2012 | 8 CommentsCheryl L. Bruno is a writer and blogger with research interests in 19th century Mormon history. -
7 Psaltery & Lyre: Joshua Lyons, Two Poems
Posted on July 19, 2012 | 1 CommentJoshua Lyons graduated with a BA in English from Stephen F. Austin State University and is currently working on his MA in English. He plans to continue pursuing his education and to continue writing poetry and children's stories. -
6 Psaltery & Lyre: Christine Butterworth-McDermott, Two Poems
Posted on July 12, 2012 | 7 CommentsChristine Butterworth-McDermott is an associate professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she teaches creative writing, fairy tales, and acts as the poetry editor of REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters, a national literary magazine. -
5 Psaltery & Lyre: Tyler Chadwick, “On Crucifixion by J. Kirk Richards”
Posted on July 5, 2012 | 10 CommentsTyler Chadwick is a doctoral candidate in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State University and his poems have been published in various journals: Dialogue, Metaphor, Irreantum, Salome, Black Rock & Sage, Wilderness Interface Zone, and Victorian Violet Press Poetry Journal -
4 Psaltery & Lyre: Aaron Michael Kline, Two Poems
Posted on June 28, 2012 | 6 CommentsAaron Michael Kline received his BA in Theatre and English from Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. -
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. -
2 Psaltery & Lyre: M. Brett Gaffney, Two Poems
Posted on June 14, 2012 | 2 CommentsM. Brett Gaffney graduated with a BA in English from Stephen F. Austin University and is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. -
1 Psaltery & Lyre: Our Lord Jesus in Drag
Posted on June 7, 2012 | 13 CommentsDayna Patterson is the newest blogger at Doves & Serpents. Her poems have appeared in Dark Lady Poetry, Persona, Words Work, Exponent II, Segullah, Borderline, and BlazeVOX. -
Do Not Go Gentle Into Christmas Eve
Posted on December 13, 2011 | 6 CommentsI suspect every family has a list of Yuletide must-see TV such as “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “How The Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, ” “A Christmas Story” or “Elf,” but are literary works included in your Most Wonderful Time of the Year-read […] -
Serious Concerns
Posted on October 11, 2011 | 6 CommentsI think I had, in some way, consigned poetry readings to the territory of performance art and local avant garde theater -- embarassingly earnest and unintentionally hilarious events featuring Very Serious Artists. -
Delousing the Kids
Posted on April 6, 2011 | 4 CommentsThis beautiful poem was written by my dear friend, Dayna Patterson, after patiently listening to me whine about our 2010 lice-capade. It will be published later this year in a chapbook called Mothering. Dayna has another chapbook that was published recently called Loose […] -
Jars
Posted on January 21, 2011 | 6 CommentsFrom Dayna Patterson's new book, 'Loose Threads'. -
Cara’s Story
Posted on October 16, 2010 | 4 CommentsA poem, by Andy. Perhaps this is your story, too. -
Untitled Poem
Posted on October 13, 2010 | 12 CommentsCheryl, who wrote this poem for Doves & Serpents, asked if our readership had any ideas for the title. Please share your thoughts, feelings and possible titles in the comments below. You are a God of temples, Celestial rooms and light; Of spotless sunlit windows […] -
Moses and the Rock
Posted on October 9, 2010 | 3 CommentsAaron Reeves is a doctoral student of Sociology, and the co-creator of 'Crumpets and Decaff', a publication and website that seeks to promote the production and exploration of British Mormon cultural products... -
Original Poetry: ‘This Universe is Too Wide For Us’
Posted on October 4, 2010 | 7 CommentsWe're pleased to have original creative work on D&S from time to time. Here's a short poem by Andy.