A complete set of the AML Proceedings/Annuals can be found in the BYU Harold B. Lee Library.
1976-1977
(Published in Dialogue, Summer 1978)
Introduction
Maureen Ursbenbach Beecher 12
The Poetics of Provincialism: Mormon Regional Fiction
Edward A. Geary 15
Halldor Laxness: The Mormons and the Promised Land
George S. Tate 25
The Vocation of David L. Wright:
Bruce W. Jorgensen 38
Three Essays: A Commentary
Franklin Fisher 53
Excavating Myself
Herbert Harker 56
The Representation of Reality in Nineteenth Century Mormon Autobiography
Neal Lambert 63
The Literary Dimensions of Mormon Autobiography
Steven P. Sondrup 75
I, Eye, Aye: The Personal Essay in Mormon Literature
Mary L. Bradford 81
Insights from the Outside From a Commentator’s Note Pad
Candadai Seshachari 90
1978-79 (Part 1, Part 2)
Foreword
Truth and Consequences: The Identity Crisis in Missionary Fiction
Lavina Fielding Anderson 1
Claude T. Barnes, Utah Naturalist
Davis Bitton 9
The Moral Measure of Literature
Stephen L. Tanner 35
Freshet in the Dearth: Samuel W. Taylor’s Heaven Knows Why and Mormon Humor
Richard H. Cracroft 43
Folklore in The Giant Joshua
William Wilson 57
Element and Glory: Reflections and Speculations on the Mormon Verbal Imagination
Bruce W. Jorgensen 65
The Psalm of Nephi: A Lyric Reading
Steven P. Sondrup 79
Voices of Conflict: The Literature of Mormon Sisterism
Chris Rigby Arrington 95
Some Thoughts on Mormon Literature and the Mormon Sense of Sacred Space
Neal Lambert 107
“All Things Which Have Been Given of God … Are the Typifying of Him”: Typology in the Book of Mormon
Richard Dilworth Rust 113
The Process of Living: C.S. Lewis as a ‘Guide of the Perplexed’
William Clayton Kimball 121
1979-82
Foreword v
Obedience, Integrity, and the Paradox of Selfhood
Eugene England
The Civilizing of Mormondom: The Indispensable Role of the Mormon Intellectual
Levi S. Peterson 19
The Didactic Heresy as Orthodox Tool: B. H. Roberts As Writer of Home Literature
Richard H. Cracroft 32
Paradox and Tragedy in Mormonism
Marden J. Clark 45
Joseph Smith and the Tragic Quest
Eugene England 55
The Possibility of Mormon Tragedy
Steven P. Sondrup 72
Toward a More Perfect Order Within: Being the Confession of an Unregenerate but Not Unrepentant Mistruster of Mormon Literature
Marden J. Clark 80
Lehi’ s Dream: An American Apocalypse
Mark Thomas 92
“[ALMOST] ALL IS WELL”: Thematic Sophistication as an Index of Quality in LDS Student Stories
Elouise Bell 99
An Alternative to Traditional Criticism
James E. Faulconer 111
Moral Criticism: Lessons from China
Stephen Durrant 125
Grace and Isolation: A Thematic Examination of Eileen Kump’s Bread and Milk and Other Stories
Gloria L. Cronin 133
1983
Foreword v
The Assimilation of Mormon History: Modern Mormon Historical Novels
Lavina Fielding Anderson 1
A “Smaller Canvas” of the Mormon Short Story Since 1950
Bruce W. Jorgensen 10
The Ambiguous Myth of the Wilderness: A Comparative Study of Two Published Versions of “Road to Damascus” by Levi Peterson
Gloria Cronin 32
Thayer’s Ode to a Redtail Hawk
Eugene England 42
Mormon Letters–The Other Kind
Irene M. Bates 54
Privileged Criteria in Literary Evaluation
Brien D. Ward 64
Making a Mormon of Milton
John S. Tanner 70
Singing Praise: The LDS and RLDS Hymnals
Karen Lynn 84
Being Happy: An Exercise in Spiritual Autobiography
Lavina Fielding Anderson 89
But My Truth is Truer Than Your Truth: Cognitive Dissonance in Religion and Drama
Chris Conkling 103
Mormon’s Literary Technique
Susan Taber 117
At the Huntington: The Overland Diaries of Eliza R. Snow
Maureen Ursenbach Beecher 126
Are Women More Free Under the Patriarchy? The Evidence of Mormon Literature
Eugene England 131
1984 (Part 1, Part 2)
Foreword v
History into Fiction
Margaret R. Munk 1
Who Shapes Oral Narrative: A Functionalist and Psychosocial Examination of the Lore of Two Mormon Female Tale-Tellers
Gloria L. Cronin 12
Crying “Change” in a Permanent World: A Look at Contemporary Writings of Mormon Women on Motherhood
Linda P. Wilcox
Scottish Mormon Immigrants and the Muse: Verses from the Dust
Frederick S. Buchan 36
Fued and Fun: Humor in the Poetry of John Lyon
Ted Lyon 59
Book of Mormon Imagery
Richard Dilworth Rust 77
Levi Peterson’s “Road to Damascus” and the Language of Grace
Steven P. Sondrup 87
The Willing Captive: A Study of Freedom in Recent Mormon Fiction
Vernon Jensen 102
The Literary Image of the Mormon Colonies in Mexico
Edward A. Geary 111
Measuring the Achievement of the New LDS Hymnal
Karen Lynn 124
Some Popular Non-Mormon Books Read by Mormons before 1900
Edward L. and Eleanor C. Hart 129
Looking through the Glass Darkly: Early British Perceptions of Mormonism
Thomas R. Burton 141
Making the “Good” Good for Something: A Direction for Mormon Literature
Lavina Fielding Anderson 150
1987
Foreword v
Of Mormon Poesy: An Essay
Edward A. Geary 1
Writing: The Most Hazardous Craft
Edward L. Hart 8
Nephi, Seer of Modern Times: The Home Literature Novels of Nephi Anderson
Richard H Cracroft 12
A Modern Stigma: “Cobwebs”
Veda Tebbs Hale 23
A Distant Influence: Tum Again Home
Herbert Harker 30
Romantic Lyric Form and Western Mormon Experience in Douglas Thayer’s “Under Cottonwoods” and “Opening Day”
Bruce W. Jorgensen 37
Perceptions of the Mormons in Science Fiction: The Writings of Robert A. Heinlein
Bruce and Julie Westergren 49
1994, Volume I
Of Hymns, Herbert, and the Aesthetics of Faith
John S. Tanner 1
The Power of the Word
William A. Wilson 8
AML: Unlikely Skirmisher in the Battle of the Books
Levi S. Peterson 15
To Tell and Hear Stories: Let the Stranger Say
Bruce W. Jorgensen 19
Attuning the Authentic Mormon Voice: Stemming the Sophic Tide in LDS Literature
Richard H. Cracroft 34
Virginia Sorensen as the Founding Foremother of the Mormon Personal Essay
Eugene England 44
The Strength and Weaknesses of Virginia Sorensen’s On This Star
Linda Berlin 51
Joseph and His Brothers: Rivalry in Virginia Sorensen’s On This Star
Edward A. Geary 57
Mercy, Zina, and Kate: Virginia Sorensen’s Strong Women in a Man’s Society
LuDene Dallimore 63
Women Together: Kate Alexander’s Search for Self in The Evening and the Morning
Grant T. Smith 68
Sacrifice to the Proper Gods
Jacqueline C. Barnes 78
In Search of Women’s Language and Feminist Expression Among Nauvoo Wives in A Little Lower Than the Angels
Helynne H. Hansen 84
“Little Books” from a Large Soul: The Private Poetry of Virginia Sorensen
Susan Elizabeth Howe 91
Virginia Sorensen: Literary Recollections from a Thirty-five Year Friendship
Mary Lythgoe Bradford 97
Overworked Stereotypes or Accurate History? Images of Polygamy in The Giant Joshua
Jesse L. Embry 105
Whatever Happened to Maurine Whipple?
Katherine Ashton 114
The Promise Is Fulfilled: Literary Aspects of John D. Fitzgerald’s Novels
Audrey M. Godfrey 120
Realizing “A Personal and Possessed Past”: Mormon Community and Values in Wallace Stegner’s Recapitulation
Richard H. Cracroft 124
Clarice Short: Earthly Academic
Emma Lou Thayne 132
Madwomen in the Mormon Attic: A Feminist Reading of Saturday’s Warrior and Reunion
Nola D. Smith 139
“A Usually Dazzling World”: The Poetic Mormon Humanism of Emma Lou Thayne
Richard H. Cracroft 145
1994, Volume II
Levels of Perception in Michael Fillerup’s Visions and Other Stories
Robert M. Hogge 154
Embracing the Other: The Beloved Alien and Other Ethical Fictions of Orson Scott Card
Mick McAllister 158
A Look at Contemporary Mormon Poetry: One Harvester’s Opinion
MaryJan Gay Munger 166
Franklin Fisher’s Bones: The Effaced Identity of the Mormon Missionary
Joe Peterson 171
Letters from Exile: Plural Marriage from the Perspective of Manha Hughes Cannon
John Sillito and Constance L. Lieber 177
Feminine Voices in the Works of Juanita Brooks
Karin Anderson England 183
In Rims of Praise: The Songs of Zion
Jean Anne Waterstradt 190
“And There Was … a New Writing”: The Book of Mormon as a Never-Ending Text
Neal E. Lambert 196
“After Ye Have Received So Many Witnesses”: Symbolic Action in Alma 32-34
Keith H. Lane 201
Liminality in the Book of Mormon
Richard Dilworth Rust 207
Abridging the Records of the Zoramite Mission: Mormon as Historian
Steven L. Olsen 212
Telling It Slant: Aiming for Truth in Contemporary Mormon Literature
William Mulder 216
Towards a Mormon Criticism: Should We Ask “Is This Mormon Literature?”
Gideon O. Burton 227
“Though Like the Wanderer”: Outside the Group in Mormon Short Fiction
Derk Michael Koldewyn 234
Reading Mormon Stories: An Ethical Dilemma?
Neal W. Kramer 239
Toward a Theory of Literary Value: The Necessity of Bearing Personal Testimony
Harlow Soderborg Clark 246
In the Territory of Irony
Harlow Soderborg Clark 256
Doubt and the Desert
John Bennion 263
Risk and Terror
John S. Harris 270
Drinking, and Flirting with the Mormon Church
Marian Nelson 275
Men and Women and Love
Robert A. Rees 282
Domesticity and the Call to Art: A Panel
Julie J. Nichols, Gail Newbold, Lisa Ortne Bickmore, Margaret Blair Young, Bruce W. Jorgensen 284
Confronting the Personal Voice: Ethics and the Personal Essay in Technical Writing
Karin Anderson England 297
1995
Presidential Addresses
And Now for a Little Mormon Humor
Ann Edwards Cannon 1
The Power of the Preposition
Linda Brummett 9
1994 Visiting Scholar
Clio Meets Elijah at the Family History Center
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 16
Scriptural Texts as Literature
The Original Language of the Book of Mormon: Upstate New York Dialect, King James English, or Hebrew?
Royal Skousen 24
Taste and Feast: Images of Eating and Drinking in the Book of Mormon
Richard Dilworth Rust 32
The Ineffable Made Effable: Rendering Joseph Smith’s First Vision as Literature
Richard H. Cracroft 38
Mormon Fiction
Ghosts and Outsiders: Mormon Writers Playing in the Dark
Eugene England 58
Maurine Whipple and the Grand Idea
Veda Tebbs Hale 70
Form and Content: Establishing the Printing Text for Maurine Whipple: The Lost Works
Lavina Fielding Anderson 79
Where Nothing Is Long Ago: Memories of Virginia Sorensen Waugh
Shirley Brockbank Paxman 86
Kindly Ironic Vision in Richard Scowcroft’s Novels
Glen J. Wiese 96
The Deseret Book Book: Lindsey Phillip Dew, Jack Weyland, and Carroll Hofeling Morris
Harlow Soderborg Clark 112
Strange Love: The stories of Phyllis Barber
Helen B. Cannon 127
Drama, Poetry, and the Essay
Whither Mormon Drama: Look First to the Theater
Eric Samuelsen 137
Polly and Katy: Mormon Feminists Take the stage
Nola D. Smith 145
Heart of My Father: C. Thomas Asplund, A Retrospective
Marni Asplund-Campbell 152
Life Transitions in the Poetry of Clinton F. Larson
Ellen Bonelli Pace 163
The Lyric Body in Emma Lou Thayne’s Things Happen
Lisa Orme Bickmore 183
When Are We Taking Ourselves Too seriously? Elouise Bell’s Humor
Patricia T. Coleman 192
Autobiography and Biography
Wanderings and Wanderings: contemporary Autobiographical Theory and the Personal Essay
Valerie Holladay 197
S. Dilworth Young: His Life in Words
Benson Y. Parkinson 205
From Walden Pond to the Great Salt Lake: Ecobiography and Engendered Species Acts in Walden and Refuge
Cecilia Konchar Farr and Phillip A. Snyder 214
Refuge as Extinction: The Victory of Fear and Death Over Courage and Faith
Neal W. Kramer 226
Is There Refuge in the Text?: Narrator and Reader in Terry Tempest Williams’s Memoir
Thomas G. Plummer 237
Contemporary critical Explorations
“P.S. The Slimy One on the Right”: Remarks on Bombastic criticism
Harlow Soderborg Clark 247
Criticizing Mormon Culture or Whatever Happened to Good Will?
Neal W. Kramer 257
Faithful and Ambiguous Fiction: Can Weyland and Whipple Dance Together in the House of Fiction?
John Bennion 269
The Mormon Fiction Mission
Tessa Meyer Santiago 283
How to Be a Mormo-American; Or, The Function of Mormon criticism at the Present Time
Michael Austin 293
Personal Essays
Thoughts of a Former Feminist
Sally T. Taylor 309
Pro-Choice? But What Are We Choosing? One Woman’s View
Mae Blanch 322
Descent from Certitude
Doris R. Dant 325
1996
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
The Moral Imagination
Susan Elizabeth Howe 1
1995 VISITING WRITER
Citation Honoring Wayne C Booth 7
Why Do Mormon Writers Find It So Hard to Climb Parnassus?
Wayne C Booth 8
WAYNE BOOTH’S CRITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
The Vocation of a Mormon Teacher
Neal W. Kramer 20
Keeping Company with Wayne Booth: Ethical Responsibility and the Conduct of Mormon Criticism
Gideon Burton 27
“Easy to Be Entreated”: Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent and Christian Communication
Grant Boswell 36
INTERSECTIONS WITH FAITH
Mormon Postmodernism: Worlds Without End in Young’s Salvador and Card’s Lost Boys
Robert Bird 41
Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge: Sentimentality and Separation
Laura L. Bush 46
Creating Zion: Why Write in the Household of Faith
MaryJan Gay Munger 55
Consistency Through Inconsistency: The Literature of Mormon Polygamy
Cheri Pray Earl 60
The Emergence of Mormon Religious Studies and Mormon Regional Studies: Their Significance for Mormon Letters
Eric Alden Eliason 66
The Boon: A Temporary Summing Up
Marden J Clark 74
HISTORIC FIGURES
Ramona Wilcox Cannon as Woman and Writer
Ariel Clark Silver 82
From Grear Britain to the Great Salt Lake: The Poetry of Edward Lennox Sloan
David E. Sloan 89
ADJUNCT SESSIONS
Eros in LDS Life and Literature: A Panel with B. W. Jorgensen, Karin Anderson England, and Margaret Blair Young 96
The Song of Songs and the Mormon Blues
B. W. Jorgensen 96
Narrative, Community, and Intimacy
Karin Anderson England 103
Monks, Missionaries, and Eros
Margaret Blair Young 106
When Mormon Literature Becomes “Mormon”: A Panel 111
Genteel Mutterings
Marni Asplund-Campbell 111
The Provo Window: Late Night Thoughts on the Purposes of Art and the Decline of a University
Scott Abbott 112
Violence and Aesthetics
Susan Elizabeth Howe 116
Losing My Life in the Story
B. W. Jorgensen 118
Moral to Read, Moral to Write
Brian Evenson 121
Panel Discussion 123
The Struggle for Mormon Literature
Brian Evenson 127
“Killing Cats” 132
“Blessing the Dog” 134
“I Do Remember How It Smelled Heavenly”: Mormon Aspects of May Swenson’s Poetry
Susan Elizabeth Howe 138
Knowing the Poetry First: A Response
Paul Swenson 146
1997
Introduction vi
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Mormon Literature in Cyberspace: The New Frontier
Robert M. Hogge 1
1996 VISITING WRITER, GERALD N. LUND
Honorary Life Membership Presented to Gerald N. Lund 6
The Gospel and the Creative Arts
Gerald N Lund 7
Re-Storying the Restoration: Lund’s The Work and the Glory Saga and the Historical Novel
Richard H Cracroft 18
Response
Gerald N Lund 25
KUSHNER AMONG THE MORMONS 
Casserole Myth: Religious Morif and Inclusivity in Angels in America
John-Charles Duffy 27
Theology for the Approaching Millennium: Angels in America, Activism, and the American Religion
Michael S. Austin 34
Sea-Changed Iconography: Tony Kushner’s Use and Abuse of Mormon Images and Traditions in Angels in America
Sandra Ballif Straubhaar 41
Through a Glass Darkly: Mormons as Perceived by Critics’ Reviews of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
Daniel Stout, Joseph D. Straubhaar, and Gail Andersen Newbold 46
CRITICAL APPROACHES
Renegotiating Scylla and Charybdis: A New Look at Insider and Outsider Stereotypes of Mormonism
John Bennion 59
Undefining “Faithful Fiction” (The Sophic Stranger Rides Again) (With[out] His Evil Twin)
B. W. Jorgensen 67
Utah Women Writers and the Utah Renaissance: The Geography of the Heart Patricia Truxler Coleman 76
Mary Bennion Powell: Polygamy and Silence
John Bennion 81
Toward an LDS Aesthetic of the Novel: A Report from the Front Lines
Benson Y Parkinson 89
CRITICAL EXAMINATIONS 
The Ineffable Made Effable: Rendering Joseph Smith’s First Vision as Literature
Richard H. Cracroft 96
Orson F, Whitney and the Consecration of Poetry
Neal W. Kramer 108
The Example of Virginia Sorensen: Honest Ambivalence and the Mormon Experience
Laurie Illions Rodriguez and Joshua P. Rodriguez 118
Imagining Mormon Marriage, Part I: The Mythic, the Novelistic, and Jack Weyland’s Charly
B. W. Jorgensen 128
Singing with Something Less Than One Accord
Levi S Peterson 156
The Rhetorical Self-Definition of Sister Missionaries, 1930-1970: Oral Histories
Jessie L. Embry 147
‘Untrumpeted and Uneven’: An Introduction to Josephine Spencer, Mormon ‘Authoress’
Kylie Nielson Turley 152
Telling it Slant: Literary Silences and Authenticity in Adolescent Literature
Patricia Truxler Coleman 159
The Perry Scheme of Cognitive and Ethical Growth Applied to Levi Peterson’s “Canyons of Grace”
Veda Tebbs Hale 164
Levi Peterson’s “Grace” and Perry’s Scheme with Bell’s Curves
Marilyn Brown 172
READINGS AND CRITICAL COMMENTARY 
Organically Grown Humor: Remarks and Readings from The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman
Louise Plummer 175
I Have Come to the Whirlwind to Converse with the Father: The Book of Job as a Ceremony of Irony
Harlow Soderborg Clark 182
Feeding Stories to the Lion
Harlow Soderborg Clark 188
1998
Introduction vi
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Maps and Addresses
MaryJan Gay Munger 1
MORMON HUMOR
Jots and Titters: An Introduction to Mormon Humor
Richard H. Cracraft 7
You Stole My Life and I Hate You
Kathryn H. Kidd 8
Remodeling the Tract Homes of Heaven: Observations of a Second-rate Carpenter
Robert F. Smith 12
Scaring the Hell Out of People
Robert Kirby 15
A Bibliography of Mormon Humor: or, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Eternal Life
Richard H. Cracroft 19
THE BOOK OF MORMON AS LITERATURE
The Book of Mormon as Epic
Richard Dilworth Rust 24
The Art of Nephite Narrative
Mark D. Thomas 30
The Book of Mormon and Literature
Karl C. Sandberg 40
LDS SCIENCE FICTION
A New Mormon Battalion: The Rise of Speculative Fiction Among Mormon Writers
Scott Parkin 44
The Individual vs. the Zion Community: An Empirical Look at the Dichotomy in Mormon SF
Lee Allred 47
MORMON FOLKLORE
Mormon Folklore: Grammar for a Discourse Community
William A. (Bert) Wilson 54
Settlement Folk Ideas: Stories of the Mormons’ Move West
Jessie Embry and William A. (Bert) Wilson 58
Practice Makes Perfect: A Twenty-Year Overview of Creative Dates and Invitations
Kristi A. Bell 69
Spirit Possession in Brazil: A Folklore Study
Adam Nebeker 73
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
I Taught People-Or Should Have
Marden J. Clark 84
Opening the Door: A Personal Reflection on Sunstone
John Sillito 88
To a Grandmother
Russell Burrows 92
Ancestral Lives
Craig J. Oberg 97
My Mother, Poet of Experience
Mikel Vause 100
Electric Talk: Twenty Months of AML-List
Benson Parkinson 106
1999
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Art and Advocacy: Politics and Mormon Letters
Neal W. Kramer 1
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
The Viper on the Hearth
Eric A. Eliason, Neal W. Kramer, Richard Ouellette, Jana K. Riess, Terryl Givens 9
The Works of Terry Tempest Williams
Jana K. Remy, Eugene England, Phillip Synder, Susan Howe, Scott Parkin 28
Many Mansions: LDS Genre Fiction in and out of the Mormon Market
Lee Allred, Pat Birkedahl, Scott Bronson, Thorn Duncan 39
LITERARY ESSAYS
Liminality and Disruption: Cody Judy, Gadianton, and a Willing Sustaining of Belief
Nola D. Smith 47
The Vision of the Cowboy Jesus Ten Years Later
Levi S. Peterson 56
“A Representative Woman”: President Mrs. Kimball and a Rhetoric of Deseret
Janelle M. Higbee 63
A Voice Unheard: Reflections on the Poetry of Florence Bale
Eric Samuelsen 72
“Let Your Light So Shine”: Dean Hughes and the Mormonisms in His Fiction
Gabi Kupitz 80
Light and Delight
Harlow Sobderborg Clark 87
Nebuchadnezzar Grazed by Daniel’s God
Harlow Soderburg Clark 95
MORMON HUMOR
Sanpete County Humor: The Tales and the Tellers
Edward A. Geary 101
A Man Caught in the Middle: J. Golden Kimball as a Transitional Figure in Mormon History and Folklore
Eric A. Eliason 112
And the Bishop Only Laughed: Intellectuality, Irreverence, and Light Mindedness in Neal Chandler’s Anti-Hero Damon Boulder
Helynne H. Hansen 118
Ann Edwards Cannon Takes On Motherhood, Martha Stewart, and Marriage
Patricia Truxler Coleman 124
More Manic Mantic Mormon Antics: Recent Trends in Mormon Literary Humor
Sherlene Hall Bartholomew 129
Other papers given during this annual meeting were:
The Land Nobody Wanted: Mormonism’s Lost Generation and the Making of the Mormon Culture Region
John L. Needham
Joseph Smith, Going Like a Lamb to the Slaughter? A Counterview from the Poetry of Times and Seasons.
Bethany Ann Clawson
Paul Cox delivered the visiting writer’s address but did not speak from a text.
2000
Presidential Address
Heart, Mind, and Soul: The Power of Mormon Letters
Neal W. Kramer
Visiting Scholar Lecture
The Colonization of the Mormon Mind
Richard Lyman Bushman
The Power of Epideitic Narratives: Mormons Learn How to Behave and Who to Be
Robbyn Thompson Scribner
Esther Ann and Me: An Essay into Boundaries
John Bennion
“Enlarge The Meditation upon This Great World”: Thoughts on an Ecology of Meditation
Brandie R. Siegfried
Reflections and Deflections: Austin and Alta Fife and Mormon Ethnography
David A. Allred
When Athens and Jerusalem Meet: How a Mormon Should Read “Whole Other Bodies”
Karalyn Durland
A Most Remarkable Work: R. Paul Cracroft’s A Certain Testimony: A Mormon Epic
Richard Y. Thurman
The Unerasable Mormonism of Lance Larsen’s Erasable Walls
Gideon Burton
It’s Like a Ferris Wheel Ride: Jack Weyland and Contemporary LDS Courtship Traditions
Kristi Bell
Samuel Woolley Taylor: Mormon Literary Maverick
Richard H. Cracroft
Those Who Hunger and Thirst After Writeousness
Harlow Soderborg Clark
A Gathering of Mormon Poets
Readings
Robert A. Christmas
A Gathering of Mormon Poets
My Quest for the Poetic: A Reading and Commentary
Robert M. Hogge
A Gathering of Mormon Poets
Selected Poems
Scott Samuelson
Desert Phoenix
Janet Garrard Willis
2001
Presidential Address
“All Is Well in Zion”? Publishing Among the Gentiles
John Bennion
The Adventures of Irreantum Magazine
Christopher K. Bigelow
Traditions of LDS Publishing
Gideon O. Burton
“There’s a Multitude of Children All Around”: Children’s and Young Adult Fiction in the Mormon Literary Tradition
Sharlee Mullins Glenn, Rick Walton, Carol Lynch Williams, and Dean Hughes
National Trends in Poetry
Lisa Bickmore
National Christian Fiction and Publishing: Have Latter-day Saints Been Left Behind?
Gideon O. Burton
“Your Grandma Makes Green Jell-O Salad, Too?”: The Rhetorical Function of Mormon Humor
Anne Billings
“Is There No Blessing for Me?”: The Relentless Jane Manning James
Margaret Blair Young
“Woman, Arise!” Political Work in the Writings of Lu Dalton
Sheree Maxwell Bench
Whipple’s The Giant Joshua: The Greatest But Not the Great Mormon Novel
Eugene England
She, Clory, Had a Testimony, and a Great Smile
Harlow Soderborg Clark
Remedying Race and Religious Prejudice Through Spiritual Autobiography: Wyneta Willis Martin’s Black Mormon Tells Her Story
Laura Bush
The Mantle of the Poet: Reappraising Clinton F. Larson
Kevin Klein
Landscapes of Seduction: Terry Tempest William’s Desert Quartet and the Biblical Song of Songs
Boyd Petersen
Austen’s Granddaughter: Louise Plummer Re(de)fines Romance
John Bennion
The “Mormon Magical Realism” of Phyllis Barber: Parting the Veil with Folkloric Literature
Eric A. Eliason
Traditional Misperceptions of Zion: John Milton and the Crystal City in Hatrack River
Marilyn Brown
Not Another Orson Scott Card Paper: Elizabeth Boyer and Leonard Tourney
Ivan A. Wolfe
Projecting the Other: The “Mormon Question” in Harry Turtledove’s How Few Remain
Lee Allred
Anne Perry’s Tathea: A Preliminary Consideration
Richard H. Cracroft
Many Pondered: The Power of Mother’s Narratives
Kristi Bell
Stories Worth Telling?
Harlow Soderborg Clark
2002
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Girl in Transition: An Authentic Mormon
Marilyn Brown
VISITING WRITER
Expressing Faith: A Literary Legacy
Chieko N Okazaki 9
A History of the Association for Mormon Letters Literary Awards
Gideon 0. Burton 19
A Historical Survey of LDS Fiction: The Lee Library Collection
Connie Lamb and Robert S. Means 29
Imagining Mormon Marriage, Part 2: Toward a “Marriage Group” of Contemporary Mormon Stories
B. W Jorgensen 37
“The Holy Cords Too Intrinse to Unloose”: Mormon Families in Life and Fiction
Bruce W Young with Remarks by Margaret Blair Young 53
LDS Picture-Book Authors and Illustrators Publishing in the National Market
Rick Walton 65
Then and Now: A Survey of Mormon Young Adult Writers
Jesse S. Crisler and Chris Crowe 73
Emerson as Radical Restorationist
John-Charles Duffy 81
Virginia Sorensen’s A Little Lower Than the Angels and John A. Widtsoe: A Lesson in Literary History
Susan Elizabeth Howe 87
“Unto The Third and Fourth Generations”: The Influence and Community of Families in Virginia Sorensen’s The Evening and the Morning
Kelly Thompson 95
The Inner Other: Sharing Testimony through Personal Experiences
Kristen Allred 103
Louise Plummer: Local Grasshopper Makes Good
Anne Billings 109
Job Revisited: Discussion of a Tim Slover Story
Cherry B. Silver 113
Writing Dixie: Marilyn Arnold’s Desert Trilogy
Douglas D. Alder 119
God-Finding in the Twenty-First Century: Alan Rex Mitchell’s Angel of the Danube and John Bennion’s Falling toward Heaven
Richard H Cracroft 125
The Last American Refuge of Religious Literature: Card and Science Fiction
Valerie Buck 137
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Orson Scott Card
Eugene England 143
The Lost Tribes of Mormon Science Fiction Literature: Battlestar Galactica in Books and Comics
Ivan A. Wolft 157
Socrates Stretched on Ion’s Racke
Harlow Soderborg Clark 165
Sunstone Magazine and Twenty Years of Contemporary Mormon Poetry
Susan Elizabeth Howe 171
2003
President Address
Elegant Angst: Mining the Treasures of Mormon Personal Essays
Cherry B. Silver 1
The Quest of Essences as an Archaic Religious Quest: Terry Tempest Williams’s Interrogation of Faith, Art and Earthly Life in Leap
Neila C. Seshachari 7
Tension of the Opposites: John Bennion’s Falling Toward Heaven
Gae Lyn Henderson 15
Mormoniad: The Book of Mormon as Proto-Epic
Peter J. Sorensen 21
Great Plots Leap over Many a Tightrope
Lael Littke 35
Saturday’s Warriors: Winning the Popular Market
Doug Stewart 39
Saturday’s Warriors: The Pioneering Art of the Mormon Ethos
Noreen Astin 43
Serpents in Our Midst: What Brigham City Tells Us about Ourselves
John-Charles Duffy 53
Stuck Somewhere before the Golden Age: The Two LDS Science Fiction Markets
Ivan A. Wolfe 59
Mark Twain, Polygamy, and the Origin of an American Motif
Eric A. Eliason 67
Mapping Manifest Destiny: The Paintings of Lucile Cannon Bennion
John Serge Bennion 73
“I Love You.” Invitation or Demand?: Revelatory Marriage Proposals in Mormon Fiction
Gae Lyn Henderson 81
Strong Enough to Face the Dark
Carolyn Campbell 89
What the Mormon Audience Wants: Telling Our Story with Stories
Lawrence Flake 95
PANEL
Walking the Tightrope: Mormon Audiences
Tyler Moulton, moderator, Chris Bigelow, Terry Jeffress, Marilyn Arnold, Jerry Johnston, and Margaret Blair Young 99
AML Annual Meeting held March 2, 2002, at Westminster College
Also presented but not submitted for publication was “The Critical Divide: Where and Why Mormon Literary Criticism Needs a National Audience” by Gideon O. Burton
2004
Presidential Address
Our Mormon Renaissance
Gideon O. Burton
Friday Sessions
Keynote Address
The Place of Knowing
Emma Lou Thayne 9
The Tragedy of Brigham City: How a Film about Morality Becomes Immoral
Michael Minch 23
The Novelization of Brigham City: An Odyssey
Marilyn Brown 29
Pious Poisonings and Saintly Slayings: Creating a Mormon Murder Mystery Genre
Lavina Fielding Anderson 35
Murder Most Mormon: Swelling the National Trend (Part II): Conspiring to Commit
Paul M. Edwards, read by Tom Kimball 39
God and Man in The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Bradley D. Woodworth 43
Brady Udall, the Smart-Ass Deacon
Mary L. Bingham Lee 47
Egypt and Israel versus Germany and Jews: Comparing Margaret Blair Young’s Home without Walls to the Bible
Nichole Sutherland 53
Stone Tables: Believable Characters in Orson Scott Card’s Historical Fiction
Holly King
Out of the Mouth of Babes: An Analysis of Orson Scott Card’s Use of Dialogue in Ender’s Game
Casey Vanderhoef 61
Subversion and Containment in Xenocide
Daniel Muhlestein 65
Saturday Sessions
Keynote Address
Art and Soul: Lessons from Willa Cather for Mormon Writers, Critics, and Audiences
Marilyn Arnold 75
“I Write Personal Essays to Save My Soul”: The Sermonic Roots of Eugene England’s Literary Voice
Travis Manning 85
Bridging the Divide: Writing about the Spirit for the National Young Adult Market
Kimberley Heuston 97
Real Life, Who Needs It?: Real World Influences on the Writing of Young Adult Fiction
Randall Wright 101
Defiling the Hands with a Holy Book: Future of Book of Mormon Scholarship
Mark Thomas 109
Cities of Refuge
Harlow S. Clark 115
Gathering in Nauvoo: Remembrances of the Lofgren Family
Elizabeth Mangum 123
Sister Bean and Satan’s Power: A Look at Contemporary LDS Legends
Ronda Walker 129
Mormon Women Writers and the Healing Power of Truth
Kelly A. Thompson 135
Wallace Stegner’s Gathering of Zion: Creating a Usable Mormon Past
Jennifer Minster Asay 141
Telling the Truth: Teaching Creative Writing to LDS Students
Jack Harrell 145
The Cultural Shaping of American LDS Women
Jacqueline Thursby 151
Questing I, Altogether Other, or Both? Three Poems and a Prose Bit on Nature
Patricia Gunter Karamesines 167
My Big Fat Greek Wedding as a Model for LDS Filmmakers
Eric Samuelsen 173
“Dangerous Questions Affecting Closer Interests”: Subversion and Containment in “The Senator from Utah”
Kylie Turley 179
A Mind-Body-Spirit Assault: The True Antagonist in The Giant Joshua
Michelle Ernst 187
Holiness Emerging from My Mouth
Jacqueline Osherow 191
Writing Religion from a Christian Perspective
David McGrynn 193
The Power of Parables
Sarah Read 197
The Threat of Mormon Cinema
Gideon O. Burton 199
Also presented but not submitted for publication were: ¨The Mormon Literature Database
Gideon Burton, Connie Lamb, Robert Means, and Larry Draper
A Spycho-Social Evaluation of Edgar Mint
Charles I. Woodworth