By Larry Menlove Larry Menlove’s work has appeared in Irreantum, Dialogue, Torrey House Press, and other venues. He writes from Utah and chases the shade from one tree to the next. He is trying to shake a novel out of the maple he’s currently under. The day it began, I ate the bran muffin, …
Category: Art and Literature
Poem: My Sister wants Me to Come and Read through Thirty Years of Diaries
By Lyn Lifshin in the house overlooking rainbent pines, in the life others would envy she loses her self in fragments. How could we have changed so she asks over the phone. How could I not still be eleven in front of the old Plymouth on Main street, Mother Younger there than I am …
Poem: Painting
By Anita Tanner My daughter says the best gift for Christmas was painting four daughters’ nails— not figures frescoed on massive walls or pastoral scenes sketched on canvas but eighty ovals brushed brilliant, cotton balls scrunched between toes— and, oh, the talk while waiting. After mom’s funeral, nothing more we can do, our eyes …
Poem: Birthday Party
By David Lawrence Tonight is five nights after my birthday and my son Is taking me out for dinner. We’re going all the way. Four star— “Adour.” He is bringing Jane, his Korean wife. I’m bringing my petal—Lauren Petal? Well, I picked her out of the crowd and planted her In the stem of my …
Return of the Native
By Levi S. Peterson Levi S. Peterson is a former editor of Dialogue and author of novels The Backslider and Aspen Marooney, short-story collections Canyons of Grace and Night Soil, and autobiography A Rascal by Nature, A Christian by Yearning. He lives in Washington with his wife Althea. The Phoenix-bound airplane was airborne before …
I Will Go; I Will Play
By Stephen Carter “What would a good Mormon video game play like?” It’s a question that has doubtless crossed the mind of many a Mormon gamer as he fires missiles at a giant mutant brain, or slices her way through a horde of zombies, or fattens up a princess. The first game ideas that come …
Letter to the Editor: Graphic Novel
In response to Noah Van Sciver’s comic “Book of Mormon Origins,” Sunstone received the following. Graphic Novel The Sacred Grove is strangely young—devoid of foliage, with spindly, half-grown trees. And awkward, teen-age Joseph, on his knees—trapped inside the walls of his own comic strip—has coal-black hair, and fuller lips than we recall. Is …