Marilyn Bushman-Carlton

Marilyn Bushman-Carlton is the author of three poetry anthologies: on keeping things small, Cheat Grass, and Her Side of It. She was the Utah State Poetry Society Poet of the Year in 1995 and received the 2010 Award for Poetry from the Association of Mormon Letters. She has contributed to several anthologies, including Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women and To Rejoice As Women: Talks from the 1994 Women’s Conference. Her work has been featured in BYU Studies, Comstock Review, Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought, Earth’s Daughters, Ellipsis, Exponent II, Iris, and the Wasatch Journal.

A Found Poem

Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 1

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Sunday School

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 2

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Judas

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 2

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Woman Bathing ; Authority

Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 3

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The Pulpit

Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 4

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Bathing a Child

Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 4

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Straight Up

Articles/Essays – Volume 31, No. 3

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Ordinary Light

Articles/Essays – Volume 31, No. 3

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Plain and Simple

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 2

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Naked

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 3

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The Basic Tune of the Sparrow

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 4

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Love is a Delicate Chain

Articles/Essays – Volume 34, No. 3

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In the Kitchen on a Saturday Morning

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 1

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I Add Craig to My Prayers

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 1

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Now and at the Hour of Our Death

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 2

Luis strained his ears, watching bare jacaranda branches twitch in silhouette against the bedroom wall. The bedroom window was sliding up. It was not a dream. A human shadow was nearly indivisible from the web…

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Christian Spinning

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 2

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Contralto

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3

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Nothing We Needed to Know

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3

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Prayer for a Grandchild

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 1

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Graduation

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 1

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The Local Police Report

Articles/Essays – Volume 41, No. 3

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Jesus Was There

Articles/Essays – Volume 41, No. 3

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Always with Us

Articles/Essays – Volume 41, No. 3

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