Category Archives: Poet Highlights

A Walk through “My True Country” with Susan Elizabeth Howe

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Anthology Poet Highlight 3/82: Susan Elizabeth Howe, “My True Country” Susan is one of Mormon culture’s more prominent poets. She’s published in some of the nation’s prestigious journals and has served as the poetry editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and Literature and Belief. Her Poetry Foundation bio note speaks to her influences and something of her philosophy:… Read more »

On Terresa Wellborn’s “Welcoming the Epilogue”

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Anthology Poet Highlight 2/82: Terresa Wellborn, “Welcoming the Epilogue,” Inscape (Winter 2011) [soundcloud id=’41736361′ playerType=’Standard’ width=’54%’ color=’#003366′] (My reading of “Welcoming the Epilogue”) Terresa’s voice is distinctive, clear, and strong and her phrasing is often striking. Notice, for instance, the alliteratives that hold this stanza together and that propel the tongue toward climax: the r’s, th’s, w’s, s’s, c’s. And… Read more »

Doug Talley’s “Finding Place”: Consider. Simply Consider.

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Anthology Poet Highlight 1/82: Doug Talley, “Finding Place” [soundcloud id=’41731292′ playerType=’Standard’ width=’55%’ color=’#003366′] (My reading of “Finding Place”) From my preface to Fire in the Pasture: Doug Talley’s poem, “Finding Place,” . . . speaks to the intersection of religious, spiritual, and moral experience with the aesthetic experience inherent in well-crafted poetry. Through metaphors we often use to describe and… Read more »