Segullah's Blog, page 7
May 2, 2024
The Year of a Thousand Losses by Marianne Hales (Honorable Mention Poetry)
1.This churning river-lake eatsthe bridge and the road and the houseand the subdivision and the townand the pink scooter with a hand-drawnface that comes to the name of Scooty. Your mountain of a roof becomesa mole hill and you instinctively braceyourself as a refrigerator lolls byand then a branch and then a quiet dog.The water ...
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Prose Editorial
What a contest! What a comeback. We have missed reading and judging the contest entries and eagerly anticipated quality (and quantity) submissions. Readers, you will see how we were not disappointed. The fiction contest-winning authors certainly embody what former General Young Women’s President, Bonnie L. Oscarson once said, “Sometimes we just need to have a ...
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April 5, 2024
2024 Segullah Contest Winners
Segullah Literary Journal is pleased to announce the winners of our 2024 Writing and Art Contest. This year’s contest was held in honor of Ruth Cannon-Siebers, a devoted supporter of Segullah and its work. The winners not only met Segullah’s continuing mission of provoking thought and greater understanding and faith among Latter-day Saint women, but ...
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February 2, 2024
Announcing Segullah February 2024 Edition
Segullah Group is pleased to announce our February 2024 Edition of Segullah, an online literary and art journal for Latter-day Saint women. After a two-year hiatus, quarterly editions of our online journal will now debut in the first week of February, May, August, and November. This edition serves as an introduction to our current Segullah ...
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February 2024 Edition
Editorial Inspiring. You know that giddiness in your stomach and lightness in your head when warmth is beaming right into your noggin? That is what it felt like to read through staff submissions and interviews as we prepared for the return of the Segullah Journal after a two-year hiatus. Inspiration came from both our featured ...
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Sue Bergin – A Natural Artist…and so much more
I first met Sue Bergin in November 2016 during an extremely difficult time. My father-in-law Edward L. Kimball was in his final days, and Sue arrived to provide medicine and hospice care at his home in Provo, UT. Her cheerful demeanor, skill and confidence, and her recognition and affirmation of Edward’s Life-Well-Lived was both consolation ...
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Art from Segullah Staff
Many of our Segullah sisters are multi-artistically-talented. Whether they embrace more than one literary genre, produce stunning visual art in both 2D and 3D mediums, or are creators in both the written and fine art worlds—this artistry is an asset and a joy to our organization. In this special staff edition of the journal, we ...
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Poetry Editorial
When a garden gets buried under white snow, the seeds seem to lie dormant. But if you look inside of them, a powerful life-force is brewing. So, Segullah’s poetry might have seemed quiet for the last couple of years, but we are back – bursting with new growth, new staff, and new poems for you ...
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January
for my mother Stale snow crunching under sneakers,and the naked trees, branchinglike burnt fingers. That first winter,how did you survive? Above you, the sky blinkingits milky glaucoma eye. Below your feet,slush slipping through your shoes,and into your skin. The neighbors colder than the crunch,icy veined. Reaching their hands outfor your curls, your swollen belly, theynever ...
A Stone Rolled Away
Do silent stones ache for light?buried deep under moss and pitch, heavy dirt and grasswaiting for someone to dig, finger-clench in a perfect fit,and carry them toward a new creation-to be their legs, their hands, their momentum,to become like man and move? plucking them up to rattle in a pocket,be a holy talisman, the border ...
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