Iris Corry
IRIS CORRY from Cedar City, Utah is well-known for her poetry published in Dialogue.
Nellie Unthank
Articles/Essays – Volume 07, No. 3
aged ten,
walked, starved, froze
with the Martin Company
and left her parents in shallow graves
near the Sweet water.
The Year of the Famine
Articles/Essays – Volume 07, No. 3
When the iron works was shutting down
and you couldn’t buy a sack of flour
in Cedar Valley at any price
(grasshoppers we had—but no gulls),
the Lord sent mushrooms.
Old Orchard, Hurricane, Utah
Articles/Essays – Volume 07, No. 3
The heat and dead
Branches snagging
My hair and the apricots
Hung ripe, unpicked,
Hired Man
Articles/Essays – Volume 08, No. 3
Jake Dockson wore bib overalls
and smelled of corrals and harness.
He could lift three hundred pounds and
handle the Jackson fork, but he
The Day President Harding Came
Articles/Essays – Volume 08, No. 3
Ever last jack man, woman, and papoose
was down to the station to see the President
come steaming in, smoke blowing, Panama waving
pleasure to ride your new train yessir nice
country Senator Smoot Squint Indian howdaya do.
November Freeze
Articles/Essays – Volume 08, No. 3
Not the birds ready
nor I, nor the last petunias still warm
against the house. In the dry fields
The Allegheny Sharpshooter
Articles/Essays – Volume 12, No. 1
sallies forth
garbed for the hunt
in shirt of linsey-woolsey
and moosehide moccasins