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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 »

Fleshing Out a Sublime Flatness: Willie DeFord’s “St. Teresa of Avila as Middle Manager”

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Anthology Poet Highlight 18/82: William DeFord, “St. Teresa of Avila as Middle Manager” [audio:http://fireinthepasture.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/tumblr_lu3wg4OFMa1qldxkx.mp3] This is me, reading and briefly commenting on Willie’s poem the day I broke Fire in the Pasture on the world. Willie is Sally’s beau. They live and write and play music together somewhere in Colorado. And, coincidentally (or not), they’re both poets and both included… Read more »