I (Lin Floyd) met Steven Duncan at the recent UTSPS April Awards Festival in Provo held last weekend. He won lots of awards for his excellent poetry. Here's some info he shared about himself: Steven Duncan is a Utah
Valley poet whose writing has been published by Silver Birch Press, Rock Canyon
Poets, Prolific Press, and others. He lived in Siberia for two years as a
missionary for the LDS church and now speaks fluent Russian. Steven loves both
written and spoken word poetry, and enjoys spending his evenings playing with
language and exploring new forms of expression. He recently graduated from
Brigham Young University and will attend medical school this fall in Dallas,
Texas. See stevenduncan.tumblr.com/poems
The Other Side of ParadiseFor F. Scott FitzgeraldParadise is not a warm place.It is not a glass of milkcreamy and sweet,left on the tableto turn over in a week.It is chilling, bracing.There are no stagnant soulsin need of stirringin God’s cupped palms.Paradise is not a quiet place.It is not an empty hallwaywaiting for an echoto paint across the walls.It is deafening, gripping.No man there will speakwithout a tremble.Earth is milky and mild.Earth is silent when it should speak.Heaven is one voice short of a protest.
