Lisa Ottesen Fillerup

LISA OTTESEN FILLERUP is a poet and essayist. She has a degree in English from Brigham Young University and lives in Heber, Utah. Her poetry has been appeared in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Irreantum, and the poetry anthology Fire in the Pasture. In 2015, she received the Clarence Dixon Taylor Award from Brigham Young University for her article “The Wasatch Stake Tabernacle — Redefining Pioneers” in the Utah Historical Quarterly.

Ministry of angles

Articles/Essays – Volume 55, No. 2

Podcast version of this piece. You who more than oncespelled angle when meaning angel,are now one—maybe both.A sharp line on white paperdriving hardand fastin another spacewhose numbersI do not know. YetIn the arithmeticof our individual…