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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Lance Larsen’s Laurels
05 May 2012 1:04 PM | 1 CommentOn Monday, May 1 Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert named Lance Larsen—award-winning poet, professor, and Fire in the Pasture contributor—Utah’s new Poet Laureate. A role initiated in 1997, the “Poet Laureate is a Governor-appointed advocate for literature and the arts...
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Giving the Beauty of Holiness a Tongue (Part One)
17 April 2012 3:55 PM | No CommentsGiving the Beauty of Holiness a Tongue: A Review Essay on Adam’s Dream: Poems for a Latter Day by Doug Talley (Part One)* I. During the fourth month of my wife’s first pregnancy, she started spotting. Startled by her yell...
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Breaking Bread with Laraine Wilkins: “Make Yourself at Home”
28 October 2011 8:30 AM | No CommentsAnthology Poet Highlight 12/82: Laraine Wilkins: “Make Yourself at Home“ (scroll down) While Laraine Wilkins has passed on and while I never knew her (though we did share a few brief emails when she was editor of Irreantum: A...
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Warren Hatch’s Mapping the Bones of the World: “An Economy of Grace”
29 October 2011 10:44 AM | No CommentsAnthology Poet Highlight 13/82: Warren (Scott) Hatch, Mapping the Bones of the World Although it might seem contradictory to suggest that Mapping the Bones of the World, a collection of long narrative poems, is economical—as if the poet had composed...
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![(Cross-posted here.) In early June, Dayna Patterson launched a new poetry publication called Psaltery & Lyre. It’s housed under the auspices of Doves & Serpents, a group blog that, Dayna told me in an email interaction, “caters to [the] sort...](http://fireinthepasture.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Psaltery-Lyre-36x36.jpg "I Will Praise Thee with the <i>Psaltery & Lyre</i>")
I Will Praise Thee with the Psaltery & Lyre
12 July 2012 12:55 PM | 1 Comment(Cross-posted here.) In early June, Dayna Patterson launched a new poetry publication called Psaltery & Lyre. It’s housed under the auspices of Doves & Serpents, a group blog that, Dayna told me in an email interaction, “caters to [the] sort...
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Susan E Howe Archive
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In the Beginning, the End: Some Initial Thoughts on Susan Elizabeth Howe’s Salt
Posted on February 21, 2013 | 3 CommentsThis past Saturday, my review copy of Susan Elizabeth Howe‘s new book, Salt, arrived. I’ll be reviewing it for A Motley Vision and expect to have my essay completed and posted sometime in the next month or two, but in... -
A Walk through “My True Country” with Susan Elizabeth Howe
Posted on October 19, 2011 | No CommentsAnthology 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...
