Sparks fly—sensual and spiritual collide, alluding to the forbidden, insinuating a route to the secret and the hidden in all of us, rallying the spirit. Love poetry can walk this line and do it openly and unashamedly, claiming our deepest affections, healing our contradictions, inducing us to laugh and cry at our fears. Come hear …
Speaker: Paul Swenson
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Can Mormons talk, write, and read candidly and nabashedly about sex? Is there a Mormon literature open to appreciation of sensuality in the daily living of a rich and fulfilling existence? Can the erotic be accommodated in the weave and texture of LDS understanding, culture, and theology, while maintaining a recognizably essential Mormon core? This …
SL10135: A Walking Contradiction: Partly Truth and Partly Fiction
Four Mormon storytellers wade into the narrative swamp, looking for flashes of light and shadow, story and allegory, doubt and belief—and emerge with tales to tell. Physical objects and details assume an almost holy importance: A bottle of vitamins (Centrum Silver for Women), a jar of peanut butter, a container of ashes, inheritance documents, a …
SL10252: In Memoriam: Linda Sillitoe
Writer and poet Linda Sillitoe’s death in April 2010 left a hole in the heart of Sunstone. Join us for remembrances from family and friends. JOHN SILLITO, PAUL SWENSON, PHYLLIS BARBER, ALLEN ROBERTS
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
SL09232 Power to the Purple: The Poetry of Mary Bradford and Friends [Partial]
Since adolescence, I have squirreled away poems in drawers, files, journals, sometimes even publishing some. Susan Elizabeth Howe and Robert Rees read and criticized my entire oeuvre and helped me choose those poems worthy of inclusion in a published collection. Then I took the poems to Anam Cara, Sue Booth Forbes paradisiacal writers and artists …
SL09335 Panel: Fragile, Tough Girl: Emerging Stories and Poems From a Womb With a View
Mormon females in contemporary fiction and poetry come in many incarnations. Child with a stained mouth (berries meant for her mother’s jam) cringes under the raspberry switch her father cuts to punish her. The older, fragile tough girl who dresses up her heart in bandages of steel. The housewife who takes home a curious item …
The Gospel According to the Blues: Twelve Gates to the (Inner) City
The Gospel According to the Blues: Twelve Gates to the (Inner) City Traipsing through this curious 1960’s odyssey are such strange bedfellows as Martin Luther King Jr., Hugh B. Brown, Delbert Stapley, Ben Banks, John Florez, Leonard Arrington, Eugene England, Utah Phillips, Polly Stewart, Ammon Hennacy, Rosalie Sorrels, Steve Holbrook, Steve Hale, Darius Gray, Lester …
Musical Performance NEW & IMPROVED MORMON BLUES AND GOSPEL
Musical Performance NEW & IMPROVED MORMON BLUES AND GOSPEL We’re B-a-a-c-k! With a blast from the past and a larger cast. Featuring a myriad of new, original material, including “Chiasmus Blues,” “Done Us Wrong Blues,” and “Utah Valley PTA.” Plus new arrangements of old favorites, such as “Just a Closer Walk With Thee,” “No Depression …
TRUE STORIES: TELLING IT SLANT IN FICTION AND POETRY
TRUE STORIES: TELLING IT SLANT IN FICTION AND POETRY Consider the following: A lawyer with a divine client and a bone to pick with the Father of Lies. A housewife whose daily routine stirs the dust of human detritus, thrust to the eye of a storm. Party guests whose requests to use the bathroom hide …