Category: Art and Literature

Tuesdays: Poetry

By Gaylord Brewer   The weekend’s degradations have receded almost sufficiently to look forward to again.   Monday’s starry-eyed resolve? That’s happy history, too. What were you thinking?   Time to slow it down, lower expectations, pace yourself. You’re not even half through   the week’s race you pretend. Eat a grapefruit, maybe, weed a …

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All She Wants is Art: Doug Himes

By Andi Pitcher Davis   THE LAST MAJOR work of Cy Twombly’s life was one of art’s most romantic projects—installing a massive mural on the ceiling of the Louvre. Three thousand five hundred square feet of pure, nearly uninterrupted blue, bright as the Virginia sky. “It’s a color not bought in a bottle or matched …

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Davinho

By Ryan McIlvain Art by Chad Danger Lindsay My first missionary companion was named Willer, a squat, wide-faced Brazilian from the south of the country. One morning he spread the map of our area on the apartment floor, swept his hand across the populous heart, and said, “I’ve tracted all this with other companions. Pretty …

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Tyler and the Giant Gumball Machine

Reviewed by Edward Jones III The Not Even Once Club By Wendy Watson Nelson Illustrated by Brandon Dorman Deseret Book, 2013 32 pages, $18.99 A boy named Tyler moves to a new ward. Friends from Primary invite him to a tree house where he can join their club—but only if he passes their test and …

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Golden: Poetry

By Paul Swenson   Hey, Brother Golden, what’s it like over there? You ever share your coffee with the other cowboys ’round that celestial fire? Does it burn as fine and new as you hoped it would when you said you couldn’t wait ‘til you were dead to get the final clue— as to whether …

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