Pamela Porter Hamblin
PAMELA PORTER HAMBLIN holds a B.A. in English from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, and a J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law. She was awarded the Association for Mormon Letters Annual Award in the Poem for 1994.
Magi
Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 4
Through Perean hills and Arabian desert,
pacing our journey by the pulsing star,
we come here, finally, to this quiet shelter
that houses the holy—to Bayt al-Lahm.
Lectures on Death at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Articles/Essays – Volume 31, No. 2
The ranger stoops to toss a stick away
and points to a narrow hole dug in the mud.
“Snakes,” she says, “are plentiful this year;
there’s some bubonic plague in rodents here.”