Utah Life Magazine

Across Utah’s canyons and high country, spring begins with small signs – melting ice, warming stone and the first hints of green beneath snow. These poems linger in that in-between season, when winter holds on and the land slowly turns toward renewal.

Read the full selection in our March/April 2026 issue.

We’re now accepting poetry submissions:
"Golden Hours” for the September/October 2026 issue (deadline August 1)
"Small Wonders" for the November/December 2026 issue (deadline September 1)

Send poems to [email protected]

PC: Tom Till

John Moses Browning spent much of his childhood in his father Jonathan’s gun shop in Ogden, filing rust from salvaged gun parts, sorting through “Pappy’s” scrap pile and learning the trade beside him.

As a boy, Browning built crude fi****ms from discarded pieces and worked to earn the approval of his father, a respected gunsmith who pushed him to keep improving. That relationship would shape the work of the future inventor behind Browning & Bros. and some of the most influential fi****ms of his era.

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In Utah, a simple text can go sideways fast, from messages sent to the wrong Emma to autocorrect turning “I hope she does soon” into something far more alarming.

In this Last Laugh column, digital misfires, family group texts and well-meaning mistakes stack up across the Beehive State, where even a Facebook post can become a permanent cry for help.

Read the full story in the November/December 2025 issue of Utah Life.

PC: Josh Talbot