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August 25, 2025
Announcing Segullah August 2025 issue
We are pleased to announce the August 2025 Issue of Segullah, an online literary and art journal for Latter-day Saint women. Enjoy!
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August 2025 Issue
Editorial Welcome to the August 2025 issue of Segullah. Within its pages you’ll find reviews of two new books of poetry by our Poetry Board member Lorren Lemmons, first by former Segullah staff member Sharlee Mullins Glenn, and the second by a poet we’ve been pleased to publish more than once in the past, Marilyn ...
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Lavinia Hale – Featured Artist
The first-place art winner in our 2025 contest is Lavinia Hale, a painter from Greencastle, Indiana whose submissions were universally appreciated by our guest judges this year. As we continue to search for a new Art Editor, I had the privilege of interviewing Lavinia! I loved our conversation through email, which resulted in this interview. ...
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Poetry Editorial August 2025
This marks my final editorial for Segullah literary magazine. For nearly two decades, I’ve served on these pages—curating essays, editing poems, crafting author interviews and podcast conversations, and offering reflections through blog posts and my own poems. We have created printed magazines and books that I am so proud of. Segullah staff, contributors, and readers ...
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To the Wasatch Mountains
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. –Isaiah 54:10 God could uproot you: sky island mountains,But peace and mercy He will not discard.This certainty flows from your ...
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Female Ritual Healing
“If the sisters should have faith to heal the sick, let all hold their tongues, and let everything roll on.” –Joseph Smith, Discourse, [Nauvoo, Hancock Co., IL, 28 Apr. 1842]. Women who knew–not their own power, but God’s,a gift given, spirit to spirit.Power over flesh to balm and binda community of sisters. Women who washed–for ...
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Theophany
A tropical storm in the Everglades,alone on a boat, we are baptizedby immersion from the sky: a remissionof our sins. Into Buttonwood Canalthe boat carries its unlikely pilgrims.With a sound no louder than the slip fromlife to death, a crocodile breaks the water’sskin then glides parallel, portside.I am not afraid. I see her now,this scale-haloed, ...
Divine Silence
Divine silence is a specific pain,both “familiar and impossible.” Cheek to cheek, my newborn baby son. Remember how merciful, is God.Remember my own samadhi. Velvety aspen bark against my hand. Remember too, Jesus didn’t cometo save me from the Romans. Carpet-burned knees from praying. He is the God who weeps, divineeruptions upon every mundane day. ...
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Whiplash
I went to the temple of Godand wrote Volodymyr Zelenskyyon the page over which the saints pray. My president, too. But just nowI can’t bear to say his name, and it wasdifficult to write. I knelt at the altar on behalf of childrenand parents, of married women and men.Their names unfamiliar, difficult to say.Their lives, ...
Evening Prayer
Let the fire of the covenant which you made in the House of the Lord burn in your hearts, like flame unquenchable. – Brigham Young in the midnight hour,remind me how my fatherstood behind the gossamer curtain–touched my hands,my quaking shoulder—spoke the bequestand beckoned:spark,signal,everlastingsolace
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