#releases posts — Ben Crowder https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/releases/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #releases. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:22:16 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ Some Square Poems https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/some-square-poems/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/some-square-poems/ Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Another new digital chapbook: Some Square Poems, with 140 very short square poems. (“Square,” by the way, here means that the number of syllables per line matches the number of lines in the poem. It’s an arbitrary constraint I made up for myself on this project, though it turns out I’m not the only one who has thought of it and given it the same name. Or perhaps I once read about the form and then promptly forgot that I had.) It’s available for free in PDF.

I’ve been working on these for about a month, writing them down in my Field Notes notebook, and have had a lot of fun with the form. The typesetting was also fun; I initially set it in Freight Text but then, after designing the cover, switched to Futura to match.

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]]> The Dig Unsettling https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/the-dig-unsettling/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/the-dig-unsettling/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Introducing The Dig Unsettling, a twenty-page digital chapbook available for free in EPUB and PDF. It contains five new short stories I wrote in 2025, all more or less in the horror genre.

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]]> Bag Field & Other Stories https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/bag-field-and-other-stories/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/bag-field-and-other-stories/ Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT I’ve collected the fiction and poems I’ve published (well, self-published) into a new book, Bag Field & Other Stories, available for free in EPUB and PDF. No new work in this volume, though I’m publishing this in the hope that it will motivate me to write more.

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]]> New art: Wickedness Never Was Happiness Blessed in All Things Angels Speak Go No More Whoso Cometh u... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/1.12/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/1.12/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT New art:

And now we have a full Doctrinal Mastery set for the Book of Mormon.

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]]> New art: Translated by the Gift and Power of God To Lay the Foundation In All Thy Ways Acknowledge H... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/12.18/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/12.18/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT New art:

By the way, I now have at least one image to go with each Doctrinal Mastery passage for the D&C and Old Testament. (Ever since Bryan emailed me in early 2024 about making more Doctrinal Mastery-based art, I’ve been trying to make a complete set. Still a few left to do on the Book of Mormon, and lots left on the New Testament. Some of these have been much harder than others and it has taken a while to figure out a good-enough way to represent them symbolically.)

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]]> New art pieces: Unto His Servants the Prophets: With Many of Her Faithful Daughters: Ordained of God... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/12.13/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/12.13/ Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT New art pieces:

Unto His Servants the Prophets:

A white circle above with white lines leading straight down to a red circle below. White lines radiate down and out from the red circle.

With Many of Her Faithful Daughters:

Five white circle-and-triangle figures on a light pink background.

Ordained of God:

Two hollow red semi-circles forming a single hollow red circle.

As a Bondage:

At left, a dark blue triangle pointing down; at right, a white triangle pointing up.

One in Thine Hand:

A thick gold rectangle and a thin gold rectangle inside a hollow gold square.

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]]> Six new art pieces: Pure Religion: They Without Us: That It May Be Recorded in Heaven: Afflictions a... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/12.3/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/12.3/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT Six new art pieces:

Pure Religion:

At top, a circle where the bottom half is solid red and the top half is hollow with a dashed white border. At bottom, a circle where the left half is solid red and the right half is hollow with a dashed white border.

They Without Us:

Alternating red and white triangles going from the bottom left to the top right in a line.

That It May Be Recorded in Heaven:

A horizontal blue line at center, with a red line that starts horizontal above the blue line at left, drops below the blue line in the middle, and then returns to a final horizontal stretch above the blue line at the right. I’m sorry this is not a better description.

Afflictions and Temptations of Every Kind:

Vertically stacked thin horizontal red lines above a horizontal white line with its middle section raised.

Heirs of Salvation:

A white circle slightly above and to the right of the center; a translucent dark triangle fills the lower left half of the square.

If They Had Been Permitted to Tarry:

Three thick horizontal bars in a vertical stack; the top is white and the lower two are faint.

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]]> Pleased to announce that my painting Hearts of the Children III is the cover art for Seven Songs: Si... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/11.12/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/11.12/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT Pleased to announce that my painting Hearts of the Children III is the cover art for Seven Songs: Signs of Christ in the Old Testament, a new book by Adam S. Miller and Rosalynde F. Welch, recently published by Deseret Book in the same series as Seven Gospels and Seven Visions.

Photo of Seven Songs book on shelf

Photo of Seven Songs book

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]]> Five new art pieces. As Well as in Thy Heart: When Our Heavenly Parents We Meet V: To Lead Away and... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/11.7/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/11.7/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT Five new art pieces.

As Well as in Thy Heart:

A small yellow triangle surrounded by a hollow red triangle surrounded by a large yellow triangle.

When Our Heavenly Parents We Meet V:

A small white trapezoid at left, with two large white trapezoids at right.

To Lead Away and Deceive:

A large red circle with a thin horizontal black band across it.

Abide With Me III:

A large white trapezoid at left; a smaller dark purple trapezoid at right.

When He Was Yet a Great Way Off:

At left, a tall red vertical rectangle; in the middle, a red parallelogram leaning right; at right, another tall red vertical rectangle.

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]]> Four new art pieces. Shake Off the Chains: Out of the Best Books: If a Man Repenteth: But a Small Mo... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/10.26/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/10.26/ Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT Four new art pieces.

Shake Off the Chains:

A white horizontal line at top, a dark blue horizontal line at bottom, and a red horizontal line starting at the bottom left, then in the middle going up to the top, and ending at the top right.

Out of the Best Books:

A red triangle over thin vertical yellow rectangles.

If a Man Repenteth:

A covered blue diamond at left; at right, a red circle linked by golden lines to both a white circle and a red circle.

But a Small Moment:

A light path leading from the lower left to the upper right, with a thin red stripe across it in the middle of the path.

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