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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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46 Psaltery & Lyre: Elizabeth Pinborough, “Ciggy”
“Smoldering and cold, my little cigarette, / empty and old, my little smoke stick.” -
45 Psaltery & Lyre: Poet Laureate Highlight
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44 Psaltery & Lyre: Alex Wiggins, “Clumps”
“Cloudy, he recalls / his late night study of it, in the liquid / too liquid there were little jelly... -
43 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Skin Dive”
“We are not furred like dogs / or feathered like ducks, no / rows of scales clog our touch /... -
42 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “Prince of Peace”
“Plucked and torn / and capped in thorn / that sprig was hung / from cross bar slung / with... -
41 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “Sons”
“I believe / you put the compass in me, / you are the needle / that directs us on the... -
40 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “From Zina to Henry”
“Miles away my lips / taste the prophet’s skin / moist with salt . . . “ -
39 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “To a Black Velvet Jesus”
“At the flea market today I called You Lord of the Fleas / and my lover laughed . . .... -
38 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “Helen Mar Kimball to Joseph Smith”
“If I were permitted selfishness, I’d ask God to / catch a ram inside a thicket, send an angel down... -
37 Psaltery & Lyre: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, “There Will Be Poetry,” translated by Charles Patterson
“the sun dresses the tattered clouds / in fire and gold . . .” -
36 Psaltery & Lyre: Alex Wiggins, “Sometimes I Fear”
“Sometimes I fear a body knows when it’s dying / and relays urgency to the brain / to make a... -
35 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “We Gather Together”
“I’ve practiced this before, like hard dough rolled / in sugar: how we sweeten survival.” -
34 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “Herald”
” . . . bringing sick, / terrible knowledge and that grey uncertainty / of the world at an... -
33 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Aesthetics Seminar as the Last Supper”
” . . . seconds when we believed our little thoughts / were stars pricking through a black canopy. /... -
32 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “Soft”
“The doctrine is an egg / in its shell / I can’t swallow / God . . . “ -
31 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Jesus Is Coming Back”
“He is walking home from the church in our skulls / knocking the halo from his head . . .” -
30 Psaltery & Lyre: Elizabeth Pinborough, “Recantation”
“A wickedness presses / in my breast. I cannot / pluck it out. It is a rolled up / Torah... -
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... -
28 Psaltery & Lyre: Kris Bluth, “Truth of Consequences”
“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”
Angela Felsted is a musician, poet, and nature lover. Her work has appeared in issue fifteen of Drown in Your... -
25 Psaltery & Lyre: Ed Snow, “By the Relish”
By the relish apparent in the eyes of patrons at Bottega’s pearl café, I expect to see, barely in disguise,... -
24 Psaltery & Lyre: Kris Bluth, Two Poems
“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
“You hope these ghosts / know how to respect your privacy.” -
22 Psaltery & Lyre: Kris Bluth, “Pumpkin”
“If we had carved / that jack o’lantern, / it would have been / pudding . . .” -
21 Psaltery & Lyre: Cheryl L. Bruno, “Severed Savior”
“his love slashing / a cross-hatch in my / heart . . .” -
20 Psaltery & Lyre: Joshua Lyons, Two Poems
“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”
” . . . I imagined [God’s pew] empty, imagined him out fishing the Snake, waves lapping at his waders like... -
18 Psaltery & Lyre: Aaron Michael Kline, “Texas Bamboo Summer”
“I’d thought bamboo / was a symbol of peace, but my young / cousins proved me wrong . . .” -
17 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “Recovery”
“You’ve kissed a / wolf before; his black lips curled . . .” -
16 Psaltery & Lyre: M. Brett Gaffney, “Communion”
M. Brett Gaffney graduated with a BA in English from Stephen F. Austin University and is currently pursuing an MFA... -
15 Psaltery & Lyre: Christine Butterworth-McDermott, “Holding Anna”
Christine Butterworth-McDermott is an associate professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she teaches creative writing, fairy... -
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... -
13 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “I Wear Pants to Church”
For 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”
My fingers glide across your nape, shoulders and waist. . . -
11 Psaltery & Lyre: Heather Olson Beal, “Quiver Full”
Heather 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”
Bennett Durkan is pursuing an M.A. in English at Stephen F. Austin State University. -
9 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “The Cello String to God”
Angela Felsted is a musician, poet, and nature lover. Her work has appeared in issue fifteen of Drown in Your... -
8 Psaltery & Lyre: Cheryl L. Bruno, “The Sister-Wife”
Cheryl L. Bruno is a writer and blogger with research interests in 19th century Mormon history. -
7 Psaltery & Lyre: Joshua Lyons, Two Poems
Joshua Lyons graduated with a BA in English from Stephen F. Austin State University and is currently working on his... -
6 Psaltery & Lyre: Christine Butterworth-McDermott, Two Poems
Christine Butterworth-McDermott is an associate professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she teaches creative writing, fairy... -
5 Psaltery & Lyre: Tyler Chadwick, “On Crucifixion by J. Kirk Richards”
Tyler Chadwick is a doctoral candidate in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State University and his poems... -
4 Psaltery & Lyre: Aaron Michael Kline, Two Poems
Aaron 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”
Sarah Dunster is an award-winning poet and fiction writer. Her poems have been published in Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon... -
2 Psaltery & Lyre: M. Brett Gaffney, Two Poems
M. Brett Gaffney graduated with a BA in English from Stephen F. Austin University and is currently pursuing an MFA... -
1 Psaltery & Lyre: Our Lord Jesus in Drag
Dayna Patterson is the newest blogger at Doves & Serpents. Her poems have appeared in Dark Lady Poetry, Persona, Words... -
Do Not Go Gentle Into Christmas Eve
I suspect every family has a list of Yuletide must-see TV such as “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “How The Grinch... -
Serious Concerns
I think I had, in some way, consigned poetry readings to the territory of performance art and local avant... -
Delousing the Kids
This beautiful poem was written by my dear friend, Dayna Patterson, after patiently listening to me whine about our 2010... -
Jars
From Dayna Patterson’s new book, ‘Loose Threads’. -
Cara’s Story
A poem, by Andy. Perhaps this is your story, too.