Lisa Madsen De Rubilar

LISA M. DE RUBILAR lives in Niskayuna, New York, with her husband and four children. She works as a freelance copywriter specializing in high technology. In the cause of poetry, she conducts poetry workshops for elementary schoolchildren (K-5) and regales members of her ward with poems whenever she has the chance. She mourns the recent passing of the giant defender of poetry and belief, Czeslaw Milosz.

Pure Thin Bones

Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 4

José Luís was sick. That was why Michelle and Renata stopped by to see him on their way home from missionary zone meeting. They walked with Nielsen, his companion, who had gone to the meeting…

Songs

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 3

Marta Pillahuel was very old. She lived in the country with her pigs on one side and her chickens on the other. Her wooden house leaned to the east and let in the weather—a warm…

Resurrection

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 3

What if the Resurrection were not pent
for the vast reendowment of all flesh
but occurred as if by chance, like birth
(that miraculous appointment), and just
as unnoticed. What if these were the terms?:

Death to the Death of Poetry! The Art Is Alive and Kicking in Mormon Circles — and in Mainstream American Culture

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 1

When I read Robert Hughes’s essay, “Poetry Matters in Mormon Culture,” published in a recent Dialogue,[1] I didn’t feel an overwhelming need to respond. But like a sliver that goes at first unnoticed and later…