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A Heavenly Peep: Martin Pulido’s “Windows”

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"The Woman of the Apocalypse" from Lawrence OP on Flickr (BY NC ND)

Martin Pulido’s “Windows” Post 24/31 in my A Mother Here reading series. (Click/tap here to read the poem.) Poem: https://1fb2e55140d2bb482435ce86bbc7e8418ca037cb.googledrive.com/host/0B0EZsE0-ymvDfmt5enFsUXhOVjJEdGZKWmViTDRBdzZVdUVPQkVOazFLNGt1N0Nmc0JmRXc/24-M%20Pulido_Windows.mp3 (Direct link to audio file.) Commentary: https://1ff8b0f79f59a629d58a9ec8f7c4afcfe4d458fc.googledrive.com/host/0B0EZsE0-ymvDNGhvY3NzVjlvMTA/24-Comment%20on%20M%20Pulido_Windows.mp3 (Direct link to audio file.)

Sensing Mother’s Massive Grace and Godsome Body: Dayna Patterson’s “Whale Watching”

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"46 leapin whales!!!" from Chewy Chua on Flickr (BY NC ND)

Dayna Patterson’s “Whale Watching” Post 22/31 in my A Mother Here reading series. (Click/tap here to read the poem.) Poem: https://1fb2e55140d2bb482435ce86bbc7e8418ca037cb.googledrive.com/host/0B0EZsE0-ymvDfmt5enFsUXhOVjJEdGZKWmViTDRBdzZVdUVPQkVOazFLNGt1N0Nmc0JmRXc/22-Patterson_Whale%20Watching.mp3 (Direct link to audio file.) Commentary: https://1ff8b0f79f59a629d58a9ec8f7c4afcfe4d458fc.googledrive.com/host/0B0EZsE0-ymvDNGhvY3NzVjlvMTA/22-Comment%20on%20Patterson_Whale%20Watching.mp3 (Direct link to audio file.) (Follow this link to access a copy of Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road,” which I mention in my commentary.)

Heavenly Mother and/in the Poetic Imagination: Melody Newey’s “The River You Always Knew”

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"Watching Mother" by Kayli Timmerman

Melody Newey’s “The River You Always Knew” Post 14/31 in my A Mother Here reading series. (Click/tap here to read the poem.) Poem: http://fireinthepasture.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/14-Newey_The-River-You-Always-Knew.mp3 (Direct link to audio file.) Commentary: http://fireinthepasture.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/14-Comment-on-Newey_The-River-You-Always-Knew.mp3 (Direct link to audio file.)

Imagining the Mother’s Habitation: Conner McKinnon’s “To Her”

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Conner McKinnon’s “To Her” Post 12/31 in my A Mother Here reading series. (Click/tap here to read the poem.) Poem: http://fireinthepasture.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/12-McKinnon_To-Her.mp3 (Direct link to audio file.) Commentary: http://fireinthepasture.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/12-Comment-on-McKinnon_To-Her.mp3 (Direct link to audio file.)

Metaphors for God: Tina Lindsay’s “My Mother Is…”

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Tina Lindsay’s “My Mother Is…” Post 11/31 in my A Mother Here reading series. (Click/tap here to read the poem.) Poem: http://fireinthepasture.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/11-Lindsay_My-Mother-Is.mp3 (Direct link to audio file.) Commentary: http://fireinthepasture.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/11-Comment-on-Lindsay_My-Mother-Is.mp3 (Direct link to audio file.)

21st Century Mormon Lyricisms

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I originally read this essay, in which I officially announced the publication of Fire in the Pasture, at the 2011 conference of the Association for Mormon Letters, held March 26, 2011. I read and commented on several poems in part II of the essay, but I’m not transcribing those readings here; if you’d like to hear them, you can listen… Read more »

Airing the Cultural Laundry: Laura Baxter’s “Take Care of Your Soul—It’s Flapping in the Breeze”

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Anthology Poet Highlight 32/82: Laura Nielson Baxter, “Take Care of Your Soul—It’s Flapping in the Breeze“ “Take Care” is an exercise in absurdity. I mean, a neighbor airing his soul on a clothesline like recently washed laundry then leaving it to dry for a few decades? How absurd! But this premise hasn’t been pushed to absurdity just for absurdity’s sake. This… Read more »