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I'm a year late, but excited to dig farther into Litany with Wings by Tyler Chadwick (@fireinapasture) from @BccPress.
I always appreciate a poetry collection with clearly defined sections to help guide the reader into a séance with the themes. This is a deeply thoughtful book.
As someone who wants to do a "poetry corner" on Twitch or Youtube, I really love the visuals of this essay - because they aren't overwhelming, but are high quality!
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One of our two poems in GENRE, Brooks explains what it's like to be the "chicken trying to comprehend the egg."
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ALT Unidentified Faith-affirming Object Gregory Brooks A column of light, gradually descending like a tractor beam through the canopy of a rural forest, locks onto a farm boy and carries him into the future: polygamy, migrations, death. ~ Angels, he dictates, are aliens of-a-kind: trust that they arrive in numbers, for the chosen few—and if it pleases you to fly within the belly of their saucer, get witnesses who won’t disavow your vision, your manic free dive into the improvisational Divine.
Privileged to be included in this issue (check out this poem! dialoguejournal.com/articles…) - especially with peers writing great poetry: Darlene Young, Alixa Brobbey, Emily Updegraff, Charles Shiro Inouye & Hilary Brown!
🌞 The Summer Issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought has arrived! 🌞
📢 Exploring the theme of "Health and Wellness," this issue offers thought-provoking articles and personal stories on faith, culture, and identity. #DialogueJournal #SummerIssue #HealthAndWellness
This is so exciting! I'm a bit late to the party, but congratulations on the publication, I am excited to order and read soon.
I also appreciate the details of diving into the financial and emotional costs of bring a manuscript into fruition like this.
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this is a bit late but -
honored to be nominated for a pushcart prize via @irreantum alongside some truly amazing poets - irreantum.associationmormonl…
and i'm also proud to say i passed my first poetry class after half a decade of wanting to take one!
My poetry professor always tells us to shout out the line that "hooked us" in a poem: I loved "every member of my nuclear family / lies down nothing wrong with the water" - the stream of consciousness style of the poem straddles dreaminess and cold reality.
TW: suicide
So moved by @JoeCarrickVarty's poem in Granta: granta.com/joe-carrick-varty…
great work @JoeCarrickVarty! I liked the idea of conceptualizing suicide as a "slow planet", almost fated to draw in entire generations with a kind of gravity, and how that both connects and isolates us from the people we love.
Also a really effective use of alliteration!
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by age 25 you should have written some of the best poems in the english language and died of tuberculosis
Tired of Under the Banner of Heaven discourse? Skip this tweet lol
Exmormon art is Mormon art. I'm an exmormon with published poetry in majority LDS spaces.
I'm allowed to tell my story, including to engage with the history of the faith that shaped my entire life.
~bipolar~greg~ retweeted
“Irreantum is asking you to share your impractically long poems: the pieces too extended and ambitious to fit between the articles in the usual journals whose pages make room for Mormon poetry.” Deadline is July 24!
You've been such a great poet laureate, thank you for all your hard work! Mapping Literary Utah is so amazing, I have discovered so many poets local to me and I've grown to love homegrown poetry more than ever!!!
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Discovering the joys of antique roadshow at my in-laws - watching an old man talk about a painting from his husband's family - and watching his face light up!
We are trying to guess the prices and it's a good time lol
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Sneak peak no. 18 of LITANY WITH WINGS (@BccPress): the poem w/the longest title, “Upon hearing Elder B— bear witness that ‘Satan is real’ to a Mormon congregation the second Sunday of 2011—” Here it is, as published in 2012 on @PsalteryLyre (1.0)
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The empty Redbull can left by a blood pressure machine at my local grocery store is this week's "for sale: baby shoes: never worn".
Thinking about that time a gas station owner in rural Utah forged the will of one of the wealthiest men in America, and sent it to Church headquarters where it was discovered years later - and it said to give him and the Church 156 million dollars each. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melv…
And there was a huge court battle where the judge was like, "guys, this is obviously a forgery" and David O. McKay was probably like: "well heck, it was a good try Melvin, but next time we shouldn't get caught up in a forgery scandal."