Brigham Young once called Joseph Smith a poetÑand poets, Brigham continued, “are not like other [people]; their gaze is deeper, and reaches the roots of the soul” Such vision, he said, is akin to having “the searching eyes of angels” with which poets can “catch the swift thought of God and reveal it to us, …
Speaker: Alex Caldiero
Sunday School Psychotherapy Mormon Poets On Vulnerability And Madness Healing And Hope
Brigham Young once called Joseph Smith a poetÑand poets, Brigham continued, “are not like other [people]; their gaze is deeper, and reaches the roots of the soul” Such vision, he said, is akin to having “the searching eyes of angels” with which poets can “catch the swift thought of God and reveal it to us, …
Some Love A Plunge Deep Into The Scramble Of Human Emotions With A Poet Sonosopher
From his childhood in Sicily as a Catholic altar boy through his latter days as a Mormon “saint,” Caldiero recalls his passion for performance and for the sensual liturgical marriage of physical spaceÑthe church or temple properÑwith bodily space. This ritualized confluence of architectural structure, human bodies, images, movements, smells, and sounds affects him as …
IN MEMORIAM: PAUL SWENSON
The death of writer and poet Paul Swenson in February 2012 left a hole in the heart of SUNSTONE. Following remarks from panelists, there will be open mic time for family, friends, and fans to share memories and thoughts about Paul. Stephen Carter, Phyllis Barber, Alex Caldiero, Carolyn Campbell
SL10372: Seeing as Believing
The eclectic visions of three diverse and discerning poets emerge as concrete images, scenes, shapes, and shadow—screened in a sensuous slide show and read and performed live. Poetry in voice, in paint, in photos, and in ink, all of which remains on the retina and stretches the imagination. ALEX CALDIERO, CHERYL L. BRUNO, PAUL SWENSON
Five Things We Should Never Talk About: Love, War, Politics, Religion, and Ourselves
Four poets with contrasting styles playfully trip forbidden fields of themes, breaching limits of reserve, modesty and hesitancy, to tell truths, personal and tantalizing, that just may trifle with transcendence. Real people unwrapping surprise packages of pleasure, poignancy, holiness, and humor. Paul Senson, Alex Caldiero, Laraine Wilkins, Pamela Ostermiller
Film: This Divided State
In September 2004, with a presidential election approaching, the state of Utah was prepared to declare itself “Bush Country.” However, his conservative calm was jolted when Utah Valley State College student leaders announced that they had invited liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to speak at heir campus. An explosion of outrage tore the community apart, and …
SATANIC SYMBOL ON THE NAUVOO TEMPLE?
This illustrated lecture takes as its subject a superficially documented and misunderstood feature of Mormon iconography, the pentagram. This symbol, as it appears on Mormon temples, takes two forms: one pointing up, and one down. The latter type is referred to as the star of Mendes and is often simplistically interpreted by detractors to have …
How High Is Up? Blue Skying in the Literary Stratosphere
Fiction and poetry take a flyer in a stratosphere and at-risk level that demands correlation of heart, humor, and intellect. This session brings together for the first time the wildest writers of two states, Idaho’s undomesticated Gino Sky and the irrepressible Alex Caldiero (Oeem via Sicily) and pairs them with poet Paul Swenson and award-winning …
NURTURING SPIRITUAL WHOLENESS: Outside the Cocoon
NURTURING SPIRITUAL WHOLENESS: Outside the Cocoon Julie Cummings, Kathy Wilson, Ron Molen, Alex Caldiero, Candace Christensen