Dayna Patterson is a photographer, textile artist, and irreverent bardophile. She’s the author of O Lady, Speak Again (Signature Books, 2023) and If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020). She collaborated with Susan Alexander, Luther Allen, Jennifer Bullis, and Bruce Beasley to produce a poetry collection of interwoven poems, A Spiritual Thread (Other Mind Press, 2024). Honors include the Association for Mormon Letters Poetry Award and the 2019 #DignityNotDetention Poetry Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky. Two of her poems were selected for Best Spiritual Literature 2023. Her creative work has appeared in EcoTheo, Kenyon Review, and Poetry. She’s the founding editor (now emerita) of Psaltery & Lyre and a co-editor of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. She lives with her husband and two teenagers in a little patch of forest in the Pacific Northwest.

Other poems by Dayna Patterson in Verse Daily:
September 3, 2020:   "Pon Farr" "In the absence of Vulcan mind melds..."

Other poems on the web by Dayna Patterson:
"Solstice"
Two poems
"Self-Portrait of Lady Macbeth in 30 Shades of Red"
"Ode to Juliet"
"Study for Belief with Lines from 'Star Trek: The Original Series'"
Three poems
"usque ad mala"
"Eloher"

Dayna Patterson's Website.

Dayna Patterson on Twitter.

Editors: Luke Hankins * Nathan Poole * Karen Tucker