VOL. 39, NO. 1 

(FALL 2022)

CONTENTS

Conversation
David James with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Abraham Smith with Forrest Gander, Mark A. Stevenson with Kim Stanley Robinson, Electra Gamon Fielding and Kathryn Lindquist with Pilar Pobil

Poetry
Pilar Pobil, Flavian Mark Lupinetti, Andrew Leggett, John Porter, Madison Jones, Valerie A. Smith, Richard Robbins, Margaret Chula, Sophia Gauthier, Spencer Hamp

Essay
Shane Borrowman, Elizabeth Henry, Carol Moody

Fiction
Ryan Shoemaker, Doug Ramspeck, Sri Craven, Darrin Cozzens, Ron McFarland, Melody Graulich, Dave Barrett

Art  

Pilar Pobil

BROWSE THE ISSUE

“Anthropologists say there are three things almost every human culture has had—some sort of rules about incest, a formality with regard to burying their dead, and poetry. From the beginning, poetry has been connected to shamanism, to healing, and vision. Through language, we are able to offer our world to others. It’s only very recently that human beings have been so dependent on rational language, as if logic were the only way to experience the world.”

—Forrest Gander

COMMENTARY:

READING THE WEST

Fall 2022

Two years ago, Mark Sundeen reviewed the history and results of Utah’s “Mighty Five” campaign to promote tourism in the five national parks in Utah—Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, and Arches—for Outside magazine. He wondered if the campaign had worked too well...     

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