The founding editor-in-chief of Psaltry & Lyre, Dayna Patterson, will be reading at Provo’s Speak For Yourself Open Mic on Thursday, August 20th but you don’t have to be in Provo to hear her. In fact, she won’t be in Provo either. Due to public health concerns, Speak For Yourself hasn’t met in person since March and has been gathering virtually on the popular conferencing platform Zoom. Patterson will be joining the group this Thursday at 7:30 pm to read from her new book, If Mother Braids a Waterfall.
Respond to the Facebook event at Speak For Yourself Open Mic (https://www.facebook.com/events/627979771188981/) to receive the login information or look for a link the evening of the performance on Facebook (Speak For Yourself Open Mic group) and Instagram (@mariannewriter).
Patterson is the author of Titania in Yellow (Porkbelly Press, 2019) and If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020). Her creative work has appeared recently in EcoTheo, Duende, Gulf Coast, and The Carolina Quarterly. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Psaltery & Lyre and a co-editor of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. She was a co-winner of the 2019 #DignityNotDetention Poetry Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky, and she has been a Sustainable Arts Fellow at Mineral School Artists Residency. daynapatterson.com
Congratulations to all our winners in the third annual Provo Poetry contest! We received over 200 poems! It was difficult whittling them down to the top ten finalists, but we did it! Then we sent those finalists off to our judge Star Coulbrooke and she selected the winners. We’re still selecting poems to be included in our POEMBALL machines and will send those acceptances out sometime in the next month or so. See the list of winners and finalists below.
Provo Poetry 