Michael Palmer

MICHAEL PALMER {[email protected]} completed his MFA at the University of Utah. He lives in Salt Lake City.

Elongated Time Phyllis Barber, The Precarious Walk: Essays from Sand and Sky

Phyllis Barber’s new work, The Precarious Walk: Essays from Sand and Sky, spans immense time. The book carries the reader from Barber’s childhood in post–World War II Nevada through adolescence, multiple marriages, children, relocation, ecological…

Body and Blood

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 4

It’s six o’clock, time for dinner and Little House on the Prairie reruns. I walk up the stairs as my mom is pulling some string beans out of the microwave. She asks me if I’ll…