Prayer & Meditation

Dragons in the Forest

The Fall and Rise of a Prayer

Dec 30, 2025 • Sarah Arrowsmith Warnick

(For my Bapuji and Beiji)

Nov 20, 2025 • James Goldberg

Black block letters proclaim this message on a church marquee.

Oct 17, 2025 • Anabella Schofield

Each night, I climb into bed and reach for a four-hundred-page anthology of Mary Oliver’s poetry on my nightstand.

Sep 9, 2025 • Mary B. Johnston

Along the gray-fogged sea, my steps, appearing,disappearing. Mom and Dad recline on bentchairs, not speaking. I’ve run ahead to washmy feet; sand-flaked…

May 30, 2025 • George Dibble

I try naming you. A thousand tendrils of speech rifle through silence, uncoiling assurances, untangling certainties, until through them light can pass.

Mar 14, 2025 • Tricia Cope

Then Shall They Fast

Years ago, a loved one died, and I was led to wonder if it might have been my fault.

Mar 11, 2025 • David L. Tayman III

Separating Existence

Michael Easterling is a humanities professor at Brigham Young University, and a doctoral student at Kansas State University.

Jan 17, 2025 • Michael Easterling

Then Shall They Fast

Years ago, a loved one died, and I was led to wonder if it might have been my fault.

Jan 7, 2025 • David L. Tayman III

Jim Richards’ work has appeared recently in Poetry Northwest, Copper Nickel, Sugar House Review, Prairie Schooner, Hotel Amerika, and Tahoma Literary…

Dec 20, 2024 • Jim Richards

Listening for Life

Darkness, Dolphins, and the Kingdom Within

Nov 27, 2024 • Lizzie Heiselt

Lehi who built an altar but forgot a book

Jan 21, 2024 • Joshua Sabey and Sarah Perkins

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