The Tragic Tell of Mormon Morality, Part IV
This is the fourth post in a five or six part series that explores the ethics of Latter-day Saint literature and criticism. In part three, “The (In)Convenience of Mormon Letters”, I briefly examine a...
View ArticleThe Tragic Tell of Mormon Morality, Part V
This is the final post in a five part series that explores the ethics of Latter-day Saint literature and criticism. In part four, “Maintaining Rhetorical Balance”, I cite Karl Keller’s suggestion that...
View ArticleTyler’s Poetry Project
So here’s the deal, AMVers. In celebration of National Poetry Month and in conjunction with AMV’s plan to do the same (I’ll try not to step on my co-bloggers toes here; if I do, especially you Wm.,...
View ArticleWho says blogging doesn’t lead to more formal work?
Tyler beat me to the punch, but I’d like to note that the Summer 2009 issue of Dialogue features fiction by AMVers S.P. Bailey and Theric Jepson and a review by Tyler Chadwick. This comes on the heels...
View Article“Toward a Mormon Gothic” and Other News from RUD
News from the Reading Until Dawn front: A couple of weeks ago, I read a paper at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Convention at Snowbird, Utah (a rundown of my experience at the...
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Peculiar Pages at Sunstone West
. This Saturday at Claremont Graduate University, Sunstone West, a small tidier Sunstone Symposium, will feature panels about two Peculiar Pages book. (Note that times and participants are subject to...
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Voting has begun for WIZ’s 2012 Spring Poetry Runoff
Over at AMV’s companion blog Wilderness Interface Zone, the last of the 2012 Spring Poetry Runoff poems have posted and voting to decide which one wins the 2012 Spring Poetry Runoff’s Most Popular Poem...
View ArticleMormonism and the Arts at the Berkeley Institute: Poetry
. [background] . Today’s readings are: “Wrestling with God: Invoking Scriptural Mythos and Language in LDS Literary Works” by James Goldberg 20 Poems from Fire in the Pasture edited by Tyler Chadwick ....
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Adam & Eve in 2016
. AMV’s about page is very upfront about the inbred nature of the current Mormon-arts community, but this post seems to require a direct reminder of the fact. The new online miniseries Adam & Eve...
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Fire in the Pasture
. I know, I know. I’ve already waxed hyperbolic about this book and recently even. It’s easy to do. Who can question that this book Tyler Chadwick has edited is of enormous cultural significance? It’s...
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