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Vernal Awakening, Susan Moss

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Throughout Susan Moss’s artistic journey, classical training laid the foundation for her creativity. Art has been a source of joy for her since childhood. As she raised her family, the untamed creativity of her children inspired collaborative art sessions. Over time, her fascination with abstraction deepened and grew stronger. Guided by mentors and a diverse artistic community, Susan learned the importance of giving back. Beauty, harmony, and balance drive her work, aiming to inspire viewers. Her art doesn’t follow realism but mirrors life’s imperfections, avoiding perfect lines and precise colors. Instead, it captures the essence of a rich, varied life. …

Finite Being, Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

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Nathaniel Lachenmeyer is an award-winning disabled author of books for children and adults. His first book, The Outsider, which takes as its subject his late father’s struggles with schizophrenia and homelessness, was published by Broadway Books. Nathaniel has forthcoming/recently published poems, stories and essays with Subtropics, The American Poetry Review, Poetry International Online, ANMLY, North Dakota Quarterly, The Coachella Review, Potomac Review and DIAGRAM. Nathaniel lives outside Atlanta with his family. Visit Nathaniel Lachenmeyer’s website at www.nathaniellachenmeyer.com.

Field Of View, Douglas Fritock

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After spending many years on the East Coast, Douglas Fritock now lives with his family in Redondo Beach, California but still pines away for snow. Previously a tobacco chemist, he has since given up the dark arts and now spends his days driving carpool, tending native - plants, swinging kettlebells, and working on poems. His work has previously appeared in Little Patuxent Review and is forthcoming in Ponder Review and Puerto del Sol.

To Make A Home Of Time, Alexa Brockamp Hoggatt

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Alexa Brockamp Hoggatt is a poet and programmer from Tacoma, Washington. Although there is endless machine to rage against, Alexa writes poetry as a sort of running list of reasons humans deserve to go on existing: The tenderness, the shared experience, the soft parts. Her dad woke up every morning after coughing through the night from breathing sand and dust at work and said “It’s another perfect day” and that is what she wants her poems to say: Even if you have sand in your lungs, it’s another perfect day.

Far West, Isaac James Richards

BYU Studies

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On Needing A Brother, Carly Quereto

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Carly is currently a BYU student studying creative writing at BYU. She loves her husband and baby, crocheting, and chocolate peanut butter ice cream. She dreams of someday writing a book.

Wake, Carolyn Oliver

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Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize), and three chapbooks. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in TriQuarterly, Image, Copper Nickel, Poetry Daily, Prelude, Consequence, and elsewhere. She lives in Massachusetts.

Sequin, Rose Demaris

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Rose DeMaris’s poetry appears in Image, New England Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Narrative, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She received Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry in 2022 and the 2024 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award, and she was a Best New Poets nominee in 2023. She holds advanced degrees in English and Native American Studies as well as an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University, where she was a Creative Writing Teaching Fellow. She lives, writes, and wanders in Montana.

When I Am Awake, Angela Townsend

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Angela Townsend works for a cat sanctuary, where she bears witness to mercy for all beings. She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, seven-time Best of the Net nominee, and the 2024 winner of West Trade Review’s 704 Prize for Flash Fiction. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Chautauqua, Epiphany, Five Points, Indiana Review, The Normal School, Pleiades, SmokeLong Quarterly, Terrain, Under the Sun, and World Literature Today, among others. She graduated from Princeton Seminary and Vassar College, has lived with Type 1 diabetes for over 30 years, and laughs with her poet mother every morning.

Stingray, Christopher Stewart

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Christopher Stewart is the author of What Came After (The Calliope Group) and co-author (with Quraysh Ali Lansana) of The Walmart Republic (Mongrel Empire Press). His poems have appeared in RHINO, Bellevue Literary Review, Plainsongs, Oberon, Connecticut River Review, Eastern Iowa Review, Atlanta Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the 2025 RHINO Poetry Founder’s Prize.

The Fishmonger, Jeremy Radin

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Jeremy Radin is a writer and actor. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Poema- Day, Ploughshares, The Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, The Sun, Only Poems, and elsewhere. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Belly God (Orison Books, forthcoming 2026, selected by Ellen Bass), Dear Sal (Not A Cult, 2022), Slow Dance with Sasquatch (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012). As an actor, he has worked extensively in theater, film and tv. He lives in New York, where he likes to sit in the park and point at birds.

Power Within, Vincent Frimpong

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Vincent Frimpong is a contemporary ceramic artist born in Accra, Ghana. He holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas and a BA in Industrial Arts (Ceramics option) from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. His works have been showcased in multiple group exhibitions and the solo exhibitions Reserved: I Woke Up To A Dream at Colorado State University; The Frimpong Case in Fayetteville, AR; and The Frimpong Case Continued in Jackson, MS. He has won grants and awards from institutions across the United States. Frimpong is an assistant professor of art at Talladega College, AL and the 2025 …

Lobster Eyes, Lily Chen

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Lily Chen lives in San Diego, California, where she writes for a living during the day and tries to write for personal endeavors at night. She studied literature and writing at UC San Diego.

Crocuses, Holly Castleton

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Holly Castleton is a master’s student at the University of Edinburgh studying Creative Writing. She has an MA in Religion and Literature and graduated from BYU with a major in English in 2020. Her poetry has appeared in Rue Scribe by Underwood Press. She loves to read, eat, and practice yoga.

Ode To Sounds I Hear Only In Iran, Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad

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Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad is a poet and attorney. Her poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, and New England Review among others. She won the 2019 LUMINA La Lengua contest and the 2016 Pinch Literary Prize, and is a Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize, and Best New Poets nominee. Her work can be found at www.mt-poet.com.

Ode To The Maidenhair Tree, Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad

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Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad is a poet and attorney. Her poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, and New England Review among others. She won the 2019 LUMINA La Lengua contest and the 2016 Pinch Literary Prize, and is a Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize, and Best New Poets nominee. Her work can be found at www.mt-poet.com.

Ice, Mts Pillay

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Mary Tina Shamli Pillay’s poems, fiction and art have featured on BBC Radio, Kitaab, The Mean Journal, Blink-Ink, Borderless Journal, The Chakkar, Dusk Magazine, Madras Courier, The Pine Cone Review, The Literary Times Magazine, The Punch Magazine, and forthcoming on Shooter Magazine (cover art), Ink In Thirds (Art), Chestnut Review (Art), among others. She is passionate about Writing, Art, Politics and Food.

Barn Dreams, Michael Shoemaker

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Michael Shoemaker is a poet, haikuist, photographer, writer, and editor from Magna, Utah, where he lives with his wife and son and enjoys looking out on the Great Salt Lake every day. He is the author of four book-length poetry/photography collections, and his photography has appeared in several newspapers, literary journals, and art gallery exhibitions. He has also received an Artist Career Advancement Grant from the Utah Division of Arts and Museums for 2026, 2025 and 2024. He will be the artist-in-residence in May 2026 at Zion Canyon Mesa.

Full Issue

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Allen D. Breck Award Winner

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The Breck Award recognizes the most distinguished paper given by a junior scholar at the annual conference.

Recipient of the Breck Award 2025

Kierra E. Burns

What Can Artificial Intelligence Tell Us About The Literary Skills Needed To Dictate A Text Like The Book Of Mormon?, Brian C. Hales

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

The first oral draft of the Book of Mormon dictated by Joseph Smith reflected remarkable literary refinement and complexity. Such observations demonstrate that he exhibited highly developed composition and oratory skills. To date, no scholar has attempted to describe the specific skills Joseph manifested while dictating. This essay addresses whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) could generate an accurate list of the skills necessary. It begins by identifying and informally testing eleven chatbots to see if they can accurately predict the skills needed to perform a task. Seeing success, they are next asked a long question about the skills needed to dictate …

Dante And The Nine Worthies: Glory Or Fame?, Thomas L. Cooksey

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In Paradiso 18, Dante is introduced by Cacciaguida, to eight martial heroes: Joshua, Judas Maccabaeus, Roland, Charlemagne, William of Orange, Renouard, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Robert Guiscard. Joined by Cacciaguida they form a group of nine, suggesting that Dante is playing with the topos of the Nine Worthies, popular in chivalric literature. While there are various prototypes, the canonical version of the Nine was codified by Jacques de Longuyon in his romance Voeux du paon (The Vow of the Peacock), appearing around 1312, a date tantalizingly close to the composition of the Paradiso. A comparison is instructive both …

Leasing Land, Losing Sovereignty:, Kathryn Blau

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

Shōichi Chibana, a grocer in a small village alongside Okinawa's central coast, captured international attention alongside thirty-four other landowners in 1995 after refusing to sign leasing contracts for land allocated for U.S. military bases in Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture.1 This act of defiance was just the latest chapter in Chibana's ongoing role as a focal point in Okinawan resistance to the U.S. bases. Chibana had gained notoriety in 1987 for publically burning the Japanese hinomaru flag at a national sports tournament held in Okinawa, protesting the Japanese government's role in maintaining U.S. bases on Okinawa's main island.2 This same passion …

Show Me Nagara, Tell Me Shinji:, George Dibble

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

Evangelion is widely regarded by fans and critics as a masterpiece, with its final episodes often described as transformative and perfect (Shinseiki Evangerion, 1995-1996; Erter; Azuma). With its release, Evangelion “entered among the most widely discussed TV series in anime history” (Solomon). However, this profound impact invites a critical examination of its narrative conclusions. In Dr. Mick Broderick’s article “Anime's Apocalypse: Neon Genesis Evangelion as Millennarian Mecha,” he writes that the anime’s protagonist, Ikari Shinji, “learns to break free from his self-absorption, the anomie of selfpity and hatred that has prevented true interaction with family, friends and colleagues.” Yet I …

A Grammatical Analysis Of Code-Switching In K-Pop Lyrics, Sydney Christley

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, has been a rapidly growing area of study for scholars over the past few decades. However, previous research focuses on topics such as the globalization and diffusion of Korean culture instead of examining that diffusion from a linguistic standpoint. As such, there is still a gap in the literature that deals with Korean-English code-switching and, specifically, K-pop song lyrics. This paper attempts to address this gap by analyzing the grammar of English-Korean codeswitching in K-pop song lyrics according to Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Frame Model. This model argues that one language involved in code-switching is more …

Bridging History And Policy: A Comparative Study Of Vocational Education And Training (Vet) In The U.S. And Switzerland, Dr. Jackie Vorpe

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Switzerland is globally renowned for its mountains, banks and chocolate, in addition to the quality of its education system, flourishing economy, and low unemployment rate (around 2.5% in 20241). At the heart of this efficient and inclusive economic model is the dual Vocational Education and Training (VET) system, allowing direct entry into the job market. Nearly two-thirds of Swiss youth aged 15 to 18 choose the apprenticeship path, either through dual training in companies or in full-time vocational schools. These apprentices are vital to the Swiss economy and are ubiquitous across various sectors. Beyond Switzerland, this system is celebrated as …

Autumn's Warmth, Noémie L. Côté

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Noémie L. Côté is an award-winning artist who transforms landscapes into symphonies of color and reimagines familiar scenes with renewed vitality. Her open-impressionist style invites viewers to see the world through her unique lens, feel a deeper connection to nature, and embrace the beauty and wonder of the world around them. Based in Ottawa, Canada, Noémie is represented in galleries across the north.

Field And Mountains, John Swofford

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John Swofford graduated from Clayton State University with an Associate of Arts degree in painting. He was featured in Create! Magazine issue #47 (2024). He was selected for the Aedra Fine Arts online exhibit: Rise (2024) and he was featured in L’EXPOSITION Autumn exhibition and catalog (2024). He was included in L’EXPOSITION Holiday Lights and Joy • exhibition (shown on one of the screens at Times Square throughout the day on January 4, 2025).

Isfahan, Half The World, Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad

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Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad is a poet and attorney. Her poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, and New England Review among others. She won the 2019 LUMINA La Lengua contest and the 2016 Pinch Literary Prize, and is a Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize, and Best New Poets nominee. Her work can be found at www.mt-poet.com.

Mercy Is All The Body Wants, Michael Imossan

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Michael Imossan is a poet, playwright, and editor of Ibibio origin.