
Patricia Gunter Karamesines
PATRICIA KARAMESINES roams and writes in southeastern Utah. She has won several literary awards for her poetry, essays, and fiction, including from Brigham Young University, the University of Arizona, the Utah Arts Council, and the Utah Wilderness Association. A poet, essayist, and novelist, she has published in literary journals and popular magazines locally and nationally. Her novel The Pictograph Murders (2004, Signature Books) won the 2004 AML Award for the Novel. She writes for the blog A Motley Vision and runs AMV’s companion blog Wilderness Interface Zone, a blog focused on nature writing.
Flying in a Confined Space
Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 1
In my dream, people mill at a fair, trying things they’ve never before done. There’s horseback riding on flashy steeds and archery with brightly fletched arrows. At the fair’s farthermost edge, wings rest upon the…
Read moreThe Peach
Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 3
Blake’s angel, for all his winks and nods,
Wouldn’t have it, though it hangs for having:
Drop of down and blush quavering on the rim
Of ripeness, playing at a fall.
The Orchid Grower
Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 4
He sought to grow rare orchids up bright air
On theory they were closer to the sun.
Such trailing gardens of the blue compare
To virga with refractions overrun.
Why Joseph Went to the Woods: Rootstock for LDS Literary Nature Writers
Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 2
Review: Robert S. McPherson, Jim Dandy, and Sarah E. Burak. Navajo Tradition, Mormon Life: The Autobiography and Teachings of Jim Dandy
Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 4