Danielle Beazer Dubrasky

DANIELLE BEAZER DUBRASKY has an M.A. from Stanford University. She teaches English at Southern Utah University. Her poems have appeared in Irreantum, Tar River Poetry, Tailzvind, Weber Studies, and in the anthology Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Po

The Power of Three: A Trio of Poetsand Mormon Feminist Poetics | Heather Harris-Bergevin, Katabasis; Susan Elizabeth Howe, Infinite Disguises; and Darlene Young, Here

Articles/Essays – Volume 58, No. 1

In her introduction to her book Katabasis, Heather Harris-Bergevin quotes someone who accused her at one time of “consorting with witches.” The word “witch” comes from an Old English “wicce,” meaning “female magician or sorceress.”…

Legacy

Articles/Essays – Volume 34, No. 3

Her afghans and roses give her day a pattern
that will untighten her mouth pursed by a memory—
how her mother would fatten the favored son with milk,
claiming only boys needed calcium, not girls.

Christmas Card from Siple Station, Antarctica

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 4

Awake all night where no night conies
she trasmits waves into the sky
from sixty feet beneath snow.
Some arc into the solar winds

Alive in Mormon Poetry

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 2

The summer 2002 edition of Irreanteum: Exploring Mormon Literature is de voted to the theme of environmental writing in LDS theology and culture. It features poems solicited by guest editor Todd Petersen by several contemporary…

A Motherless Son Sings the Blues | Paul Swenson, Iced at the Ward, Burned at the Stake

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 4

Last spring I wrote an essay for the March 2004 AML symposium in which I argued that the most effective poets writing from the LDS culture are those who provide a counterweight to the main…

Women in a Time Warp | Sheree Maxwell Bench and Susan Elizabeth Howe, eds., Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 3

Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women is a slim publication attempting to represent two hundred years of poetry by Mormon women. The anthology is divided into sections that portray the stages of a…