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Marilyn Bushman-Carlton

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Marilyn Bushman-Carlton was born and raised in Lehi, Utah, where she met her husband, Blaine. They are the parents of five grown children, three children-in-law, and the grandparents of one. Well into adulthood, she received a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Utah. During college she took a poetry workshop and wrote her first poem. Marilyn’s poetry has been published in many journals including the Comstock Review, Iris, Earth’s Daughters, Dialogue, BYU Studies, Sunstone, and Ellipsis. She has two collections of poetry: on keeping things small (1995) and Cheat Grass (1999). A third collection is nearing completion. She was the Utah Poetry Society’s Poet of the Year in 1999. She is the recipient of both a prize and a grant from the Utah Arts Council, and she teaches poetry to students of all ages through the arts council’s Artist-in-Residence program. She has lived in Salt Lake City for more than three decades.
Marilyn Carlton
  • 75 Significant Mormon Poets
LDS
LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
1945
University of Utah (1989)
Poet
Female
Author, Poet
English

39 Works by Marilyn Bushman-Carlton

Title Role Year Genre
Authority Author 1992 Poetry
The Pulpit Author 1992 Poetry
Woman Bathing Author 1992 Poetry
on keeping things small Author 1995 Poetry
Naked Author 1999 Poetry
Summer School, 1960 Author Poetry
Vountary Poverty Author Poetry
Alisa Leaves for Medical School Author Poetry
Cheat Grass Author 1999 Poetry
Learning to Be a Woman Author Poetry
The Quiet Ones Author Poetry
Green Rain Author Poetry
In the Loge Author Poetry
Love in Those Days Author Poetry
Siblings Author Poetry
Each Stitch in Time Author Poetry
"Lydia Reading in a Garden"-A Painting by Mary Cassatt Author Poetry
Nobody Can Author Poetry
Always with Us Author 2008 Poetry
Jesus Was There Author 2008 Poetry
The Local Police Report Author 2008 Poetry
I Add Craig to My Prayers Author 2003 Poetry
Christian Spinning Author 2003 Poetry
Nothing We Needed to Know Author 2003 Poetry
Contralto Author 2003 Poetry
Prayer for a Grandchild Author 2005 Poetry
Bathing a Child Author 1994 Poetry
Ordinary Light Author 1998 Poetry
Straight Up Author 1998 Poetry
Plain and Simple Author 1999 Poetry
The Basic Tune of the Sparrow Author 1999 Poetry
Graduation Author 2007 Poetry
In the Kitchen on a Saturday Morning Author 2002 Poetry
Judas Author Poetry
Sunday School Author Poetry
A Found Poem Author 2020 Poetry
You, Me (And Bach) Author 2008 Poetry
I Can't Imagine Her Author 2018 Poetry
My Mother (who is in Heaven) Meets Heavenly Mother Author 2018 Poetry
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