Theric Jepson

THERIC JEPSON {[email protected]} recently wrapped up his fourth year of teaching early-morning seminary, his eighteenth year of parenting children, and his forty-fifth year of avoiding guns. He edits Irreantum and has a novel coming out later this year from BCC Press. He has silent-film recommendations if you need them.

Joseph Smith and the Possibility of Comics Andrew Knaupp and Sal Velluto, Pillar of Light Mark Elwood, The Glass Looker Noah Van Sciver, Joseph Smith and the Mormons

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 1

Renaissance scholar Ada Palmer estimates we know 1 percent of what happened five hundred years ago and that two-thirds of what we know is wrong. I have no reason to doubt her expertise—and every reason…

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Lucky Wounds

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 4

Old George sat on an upturned half-barrel cleaning his gun. It only ever shot blanks these days, but that didn’t matter much. A fellow outlaw’d once told him the state of your gun’s the state…

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Review: Dayna Patterson, If Mother Braids a Waterfall

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 1

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Review: Dayna Patterson, Titania in Yellow

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 1

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Review: Sunni Brown Wilkinson, The Marriage of the Moon and the Field

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 1

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Review: Michael Lavers, After Earth

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 1

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Review: Kate Piersanti, Life in Poetry

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 1

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Review: Jan G. Otterstrom F., Move On

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 1

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Review: Colin B. Douglas, Into the Sun: Poems Revised, Rearranged, and New

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 1

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Review: R. A. Christmas, Leaves of Sass

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 1

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New & Everlasting

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 2

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Sweater

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 2

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Duties of a Deacon

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 3

I never got to do it when I was a twelve-year-old Mormon boy even if it is, technically, as much a duty of a deacon as passing the sacrament—and I doubted anyone in my presidency…

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Sonnet—For Solstice

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 3

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Domestiku

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 3

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If Joseph Smith Had Been Born in California

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 3

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Review: A Cluttering of Symbol and Metaphor David G. Pace. Dream House on Golan Drive

Articles/Essays – Volume 49, No. 2

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A Laurel’s First-Night Fantasies

Articles/Essays – Volume 49, No. 2

Possibility one, extrapolated from what Betty, second clarinet, said about what Tabitha, first clarinet, did last Saturday:  They enter the hotel room, both of them shaking as only virgins can shake. Somehow he manages to…

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The Widower

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 2

The Widower  Eric W Jepson  Four years had passed since Mary had died; Torrance still wasn’t comfortable dating and yet here he was, getting married. Five years with Mary may have been too short, but…

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Review: Floyd Gottfredson. Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: “Race to Death Valley”

Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 2

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