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Jesus poetry (a new contest) - Irreantum Kevin Klein, who edited Irreantum‘s Wine into Water is working with Wayfare to...

Behold!

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Irreantum, 23.1 Outside Upmost - Irreantum The rain is heavy, but I stand in it watching plants take...

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Irreantum, 23.1 Outside Upmost - Irreantum The rain is heavy, but I stand in it watching plants take...

Anyway. Outside Upmost is live.

Please.

Dive in.

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Green Man - Irreantum Ron Linn‘s work, engages in issues of place, and the connection between...

You can see five of his Green Man pieces here:

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It was Ron Linn's drawings of rocks that first drew my attention as I tried to figure out Outside Upmost's visual identity. (It was untitled at that point---title and art build each other).

But when I found his Green Man series, I knew that's what I'd been looking for. Happily, he was onboard!

Trees Growing Upside Down - Irreantum What serves as bearing in an unhinged world? How does one find true...

When I saw all the nature themes in the poems and prose, I thought originally of taking a phrase from this poem for the issue title. Didn't end up going that way, but feel free to read this and play what-if yourself!

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Urim and Thummim - Irreantum I. I see the future play out in 4K surround sound in a...

Now it's Jace's turn for a multiparter! Who's been counting? Is this three?

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Untold Stories of the Cross - Irreantum What are they? Endless and haunting, even to relate just one, the dreadful...

Talley returns with a new take on the cross than that we saw earlier: irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/23-1-untold-...

The Miracle of Worldly Appetite - Irreantum Merriah Hamaker‘s full series of The Miracle of Forgiveness found-poetry (as well...

The other poem made from Miracle of Forgiveness ore!

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Repentance - Irreantum To seek the cross, I fall down on my knees. I open my...

Absher's the next poet to give us a multipart poem. It's a good issue for such things.

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Kolob - Irreantum They say God lives near a planet called Kolob that one year there...

You might also know Jace Einfeldt's work from, for instance, @havehashad.com and a bunch that don't seem to be on Bluesky....

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Psalm 23:1–6 - Irreantum The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. Madeline Rupard‘s is online...

The other of those mundane painting poems I promised:

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Baptismal Stones - Irreantum Then they come— with shining smiles and hands pressed into palms like small...

Adam Glover back with another baptism poem---this brings me back to the flowers. Flowers, trees, stones. So much nature imagery in this issue.

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Alma Twenty-two - Irreantum God, I say, if there is a God, (And Aaron says there surely...

I'd like to compare Dr Nydegger's scripture-pulled dramatic monologue to Browning, but it's not blank verse and it's rhymed abba so I'm afraid I can't.

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Helaman’s Warriors - Irreantum Bob Rucker stood in front of the Relief Society room, watching his class...

Edward R. Hogan brings some needed lightness to the issue and he does it from the confines of a Sunday School class.

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A Scripture and Prayer - Irreantum Where on the table are all the staves and vessels? From whence the...

Aaron Nydegger's ANOTHER doctor/poet. Really, we've cornered the market.

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Promontory Summit - Irreantum Kenny Van Dyke never had any doubt as to what his mission in...

Very excited to announce that Dennis Read was NOT dead as we feared when we were unable to contact him for two years and he is back with another exquisitely observed story. He's so good.

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Standing at this Bus Stop - Irreantum Standing at this bus stop you can feel the Holy Spirit It comes...

"Maddy Peterson is a neuroscientist and a poet."

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The Miracle of Priceless Bodies - Irreantum Merriah Hamaker‘s full series of The Miracle of Forgiveness found-poetry (as well other...

We're also publishing two poems from Merriah Hamaker's series of poems found in The Miracle of Forgiveness. Here's one:

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At Someone Else’s Baptism - Irreantum And they were not baptized save they brought forth fruit meet that they...

I'm always happy when a scholar makes art, like Adam Glover writing "At Someone Else’s Baptism"---

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Atlantic City - Irreantum Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska (1982) Madeline Rupard paints the sacred and mundane. This work...

Very happy to share with you two comics by Madeline Rupard, part of a series in which she paints the mundane and places them alongside beloved writing. Here's the first:

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La amistad del Salvador - Irreantum Aun en sendas de la soledad y desesperanza, confié en Cristo, el Señor....

(in case you want it in the original)

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The Savior’s Friendship - Irreantum Even in paths of loneliness and hopelessness, I trusted in Christ, the Lord....

Our sole translated work this issue is Monserrat Gamboa's "The Savior’s Friendship"

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When Someone Asks Me if Mormons Celebrate Pioneer Day Outside of Utah - Irreantum I say no, not really, but then I remember when I was a...

"When Someone Asks Me if Mormons Celebrate Pioneer Day Outside of Utah" is probably my favorite title of the issue. It's by Jace Einfeldt.

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Talking to Dante in the Spirit Worldby Daniel Cooper - Irreantum Canto 1 Halfway through my mortal journey, or so I thought, I found...

You might notice an echo of an earlier work of his we once published:

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Even in Hell - Irreantum The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a...

Another Cooper piece:

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Coming Down - Irreantum Jesus hung on the cross. It wasn’t the first time, but he never...

That seems backward to me. Anyway, link: irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/23-1-coming-...

I don't think God has ever been bothered by blasphemy. Or, more accurately, I don't think God is peronally injured by it. I think his concern is how it may affect us.

So when I say some people might call this blasphemy, all I mean is some people are more worried about protecting God than themselves