The prophetic imagination as a mode of consciousness disrupts mainstream cultural trends and seeks to expand individual and communal faith using language ripe with poetic rhythms and imagery. Whereas dogma intends to pin down and flatten out ideas and to narrow the conceptual frames through which people view the world, poetry relies on metaphor, nuance, …
Speaker: Dayna Patterson
A Reading of the Winning Essays from the 2018 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest
The winners of the 2018 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest will come together to read their essays: 1st Place: “The Process of Staying,” by Susan M. Hinckley. For many people, it looks like Hinckley, with her independent ways, is in the process of leaving the LDS Church. But she argues that she’s actually in …
Post-Mormons with Carpal Tunnel: Writing the Way Out
Leaving Mormonism can be an excruciating process with heaps of emotional, social, and psychological backlash. In this session, a distinguished group of post-Mormon writers will share excerpts of their exit narratives and poetry. They will discuss the role writing has played, and continues to play, in their faith transitions. Mette Harrison, Timothy Liu, Dayna Patterson, …
Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry
In April 2018, Peculiar Pages released Tyler Chadwick, Dayna Patterson, Martin Pulido