Tyler Chadwick

TYLER CHADWICK, an award-winning writer, editor, and teacher, received his PhD in English and the Teaching of English from Idaho State University. He teaches writing at Utah Valley University and has three books to his name: two anthologies, Fire in the Pasture: Twenty-First Century Mormon Poets (Peculiar Pages, 2011) and Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry (Peculiar Pages, 2018), and a collection of poetry and essays, Field Notes on Language and Kinship (Mormon Artists Group, 2013). His first full-length poetry collection will release via BCC Press in 2022. He lives in Ogden, Utah, with his wife, Jess, and their four daughters.

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Collect for a Family Friend Killed in a Sabbath Morning House Fire

Listen the Out Loud version of this poem here. O, preening angels, voyeursof bright and burning things, of underbuilding flare-ups andflaming caved-in tinder, whose breathing—plumed, infernal,unforgiving—sweltered her last daybreak with unholy invocation—Please, if mercy be,…

Like a Prayer—Phormium tenax

Listen the Out Loud version of this poem here. How that late sabbath afternoon you sat cross-legged on their lawn, Elder S at your side, the couple just across, their backs to her late summer…

Big Bang, with Sternutation and Seer Stones

Podcast version of this piece. i. In the beginning, Mother worked yleminto a loose sphere. A swirl of stray particles, stirred by the breeze blown through herstudio window, circled her workbench, tickled her nose. She…

Talitha koum

Your body disrupts the narrative:
Jairus—unaccustomed to want—
calls Jesus to pull his daughter
from death. Jesus comes, touches
the girl; she rises. Just like Jairus
rehearsed it.

On Cherubim and a Flaming Sword by J. Kirk Richards

Like moths summoned by the gravity of light,
figures lean beneath sinuous white robes, their
point of communion is clear: hands in line with
the flame—its blade toward the earth’s unhealed

Fruit

First
“She’s like an apple
in a water balloon,”
the doctor says. They watch

Reading the Mormon Gothic | Stephenie Meyer, Twilight; New Moon; Eclipse; Breaking Dawn

Mormons and vampires—a strange combination, indeed. Stephenie Meyer first brought them together in her mock-epic series of Twilight novels, a contemporary literary phenomenon that sprang, true to the classic gothic impulse, from the author’s vividly persistent dream. The series tracks Isabella (“Bella”) Swan and her “vegetarian” vampire beau, Edward Cullen, as they first meet in Forks, Washington, fall into forbidden love, and, after conquering a series of increasingly threatening obstacles, live happily ever after as immortal husband and wife.

An Arboreal Reading of John 11: Dialogue New Testament Gospel Study with Tyler Chadwick

Enjoy this 86th Episode of the Dialogue Gospel Study featuring writer Tyler Chadwick. Read more

Dialogue Book Report #22: Recent Mormon Poetry with Dayna Patterson and Tyler Chadwick

Guest Host Elizabeth Garcia, the Dialogue Poetry Editor, joins Andrew to interview two poets with new collections: Dayna Patterson, the author of O Lady, Speak Again (Signature Books, 2023), and Tyler Chadwick, the author of Litany With Wings (BCC Press, 2022). Besides… Read more