Lance Larsen
LANCE LARSEN’s {[email protected]} most recent poetry collection is Backyard Alchemy (Tampa, Fla.: University of Tampa 2009). He has received a number of awards for both his poetry and nonfiction, including fellowships from Sewanee, Ragdale, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He and his artist wife, Jacqui Biggs Larsen, will direct a BYU Study Abroad program in Madrid in 2012.
At Ease with His Past; At Home with His Art | Edward A. Geary, Goodbye to Poplarhaven: Recollections of a Utah Boyhood
Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 3
I discovered Ed Geary’s essays by chance — a friend happened to mention them to me: “You’ve got to read them; they’re about growing up in Utah, and they’re excellent.” Curious, but not so curious…
Read moreBeing Baptized for the Dead, 1974
Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 2
It throbbed a little, the gash in my left palm.
I pressed the gauze, something to finger
while we waited —boys here, girls over there,
all of us wearing jump suits heavy enough