Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets
. . . the bounty of [this] anthology reminded me of Christ’s generosity in feeding the five thousand. Christ took real substances—a little bread, two small fish—and he created from them . . . food that nourished the people and made it possible for them to return to their lives both physically and spiritually renewed. Poets take matter (language, emotion, thought, experience) and make of that matter a new creation, a work of art that did not exist before the poet organized it, a work that has the potential (each poet hopes) to nourish—to make readers see what they did not see before, to offer insight, to create empathy, to provoke thought, or to express beauty, soundness, depth. To offer abundance in place of scarcity.
–Susan Elizabeth Howe
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Two Readings Coming Right Up…
14 April 2012 12:34 PM | No Comments…pass it on. You can find the rest of the Association for Mormon Letters conference schedule here.
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Clinton F. Larson’s “City of Joseph”: This Soft Array of Leaves and Light
16 November 2011 7:25 PM | No CommentsPoet Highlight: Clinton F. Larson, “The City of Joseph“ While “The City of Joseph” is obviously meant as inspirational verse (especially considering its venue of publication: The Ensign), I don’t find it sentimental in anyway. In fact, the language and...
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“How We are Saved” in/by Neil Aitken’s Lost Country of Sight
20 October 2011 9:06 AM | No CommentsAnthology Poet Highlight 4/82: Neil Aitken, The Lost Country of Sight Neil’s first collection begins with a poem—“In the Long Dream of Exile”—that marks the solitary nature of the poet’s vocation. Pointing to this call to wander rhetorical landscapes in...
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On Karen Kelsay’s In Spite of Her
25 October 2011 2:38 PM | No CommentsAnthology Poet Highlight 9/82: Karen Kelsay, In Spite of Her In her chapbook of narrative poems, In Spite of Her, Karen explores the relationship between a middle-aged woman and a world that changes and moves on “in spite of her”...
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![Anthology Poet Highlight 30/82: Elaine Wright Christensen, “Sermon On Manchac Swamp” Ah, “[t]he world is charged with the grandeur of God. / It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; / It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze...](http://fireinthepasture.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Manchac-Swamp_slim-36x36.jpg "The Flesh is Charged with the Grandeur of God: On Elaine Christensen’s “Sermon on Manchac Swamp”")
The Flesh is Charged with the Grandeur of God: On Elaine Christensen’s “Sermon on Manchac Swamp”
21 November 2011 11:14 PM | No CommentsAnthology Poet Highlight 30/82: Elaine Wright Christensen, “Sermon On Manchac Swamp” Ah, “[t]he world is charged with the grandeur of God. / It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; / It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze...
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Michael Hicks Archive
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The Grace and Restraint of Michael Hicks’ “Family Tree”
Posted on December 12, 2011 | No CommentsAnthology Poet Highlight 35/82: Michael Hicks, “Family Tree“ (My reading of “Family Tree”) In “Family Tree,” Michael’s lines are achingly sparse, haiku-like, even. I find in them a seductive grace and restraint that at once fills me and leaves me... -
Between Michael Hicks and Me: “Family Tree” Remix
Posted on December 11, 2011 | No CommentsIn which I respond to and remix the first section of Michael Hicks’ poem, “Family Tree.” Scales hoarse as secrets whispered between lovers at dusk, a serpent—and not a serpent—licks at Adam’s dreams, tasting his flesh to test what knowledge ...
