Mormon Literature Database - Bushman-Carlton, Marilyn

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	Marilyn Bushman-Carlton 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. [from Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women, 106] Included in 75 Significant Mormon Poets View Works by this Person
Also Known As	Marilyn Carlton
Birth Date	1945

Works by Marilyn Bushman-Carlton Sort by title	Year	Genre
Alisa Leaves for Medical School	2004	Poetry
Each Stitch in Time	2004	Poetry
Love in Those Days	2004	Poetry
Siblings	2004	Poetry
Summer School, 1960	2004	Poetry
Vountary Poverty	2004	Poetry
In the Loge	2001	Poetry
Learning to Be a Woman	2001	Poetry
Nobody Can	2001	Poetry
The Quiet Ones	2001	Poetry
Cheat Grass	1999	Poetry Collection
Green Rain	1999	Poetry
Naked	1999	Poetry
on keeping things small	1995	Poetry Collection
Authority		Poetry
"Lydia Reading in a Garden"-A Painting by Mary Cassatt		Poetry
The Pulpit		Poetry
Woman Bathing		Poetry