http://www.motleyvision.org Mormon Arts and Culture Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:22:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On the afternoon of the first resurrection, I want to sit on my sister May's bench and read her new poems. So, maybe, if you're still around when I go under, I wonder---could you burn me, turn me into ash, and slip me in [the family plot] somewhere? --Paul Swenson, "Family Plot" * I received news last ... http://www.motleyvision.org/2012/rip-bro-swenson/ In Part 4 of Nephi Anderson’s classic novel Added Upon, the king of Poland visits the city of Zion during the Millennium to see and better understand the new order that has overtaken the world. Strolling with a companion and a guide, he comes across a man who seems to ... http://www.motleyvision.org/2012/the-artist-in-the-city-of-zion/ . In his introduction to this book, Eugene England describes Joregensen's fiction as "meticulously-crafted." This seems like  a good spot to begin discussing "Born of the Water." The story is loaded. It would take us months to tap it of all its symbolic potential. It's structure is surprisingly complicated without ever seeming at ... http://www.motleyvision.org/2012/bright-angels-familiars-born-of-the-water-by-wayne-jorgensen/ A panel of Monsters & Mormons contributors will be discussing the anthology at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 11, 2012, at the Life, the Universe, and Everything conference held this year at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT. The panel will be moderated by Dan Wells and feature Nathan Shumate, Eric James ... http://www.motleyvision.org/2012/monsters-mormons-ltue-friday-feb-10/ Love of Nature Nature of Love Month has arrived on Wilderness Interface Zone, and we're looking to publish love abroad.  Do you have a message of friendship and love you'd like to send someone? WIZ is looking for original poetry, essays, blocks of fiction, art, music ... http://www.motleyvision.org/2012/call-for-submissions-its-lonnol-month-on-wiz/ Keeping a journal is perhaps one of the few areas where the advice given to the general membership of the Church and that given to aspiring writers is similar. Still today we occasionally hear the advice from the pulpit, usually in the context of how this will improve our spiritual ... http://www.motleyvision.org/2012/sunday-lit-crit-sermon-keeping-journals-junius-f-wells/ Steven Peck will be reading from his novel The Scholar of Moab. today, Friday Feb 3, at noon in the basement auditorium of the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU. He brought me by a review copy the other day and we had a good chat. He moved to Moab ... http://www.motleyvision.org/2012/steven-peck-reading-from-the-scholar-of-moab-today-at-byu-library/ . I must admit I would find it difficult to talk badly about this story if it deserved it (it doesn't) as Karen is a friend of mine and, arguably, a large part of the reason life has resulted in me doing story-by-story reviews of a two-decade-old Mormon-short-story collection. After graduating from BYU ... http://www.motleyvision.org/2012/bright-angels-familiars-hit-the-frolicking-rippling-brooks-by-karen-rosenbaum/ . This Saturday at Claremont Graduate University, Sunstone West, a small tidier Sunstone Symposium, will feature panels about two Peculiar Pages book. (Note that times and participants are subject to clarification.) The first, Monsters & Mormons, accomplished with the help of A Motley Vision and the most fun currently available in print. ... http://www.motleyvision.org/2012/peculiar-pages-at-sunstone-west/ . 1. Relatively spoiler-free backcopy. “To Jordan Fairchild, the dark-haired girl renting his basement apartment seems somewhat quiet and reclusive. Just a business arrangement, he thinks, as he watches her sign the name 'Nattie Hand' on the contract. Though two thousand miles away, Celeste Betancourt, an attractive Georgetown graduate student he met ... http://www.motleyvision.org/2012/on-robert-gobles-across-a-harvested-field/