Darlene Young

DARLENE YOUNG {[email protected]} is the poetry editor for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University and has published in various journals and anthologies. She lives in South Jordan, Utah with her husband and sons.

Fierce Passage

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 2

Enjoy this poem in audio version here. Today while researching ancestors, sifting through nested petalsof records for names that belong to me, peoplewho’ve left their bloody signatures in my genes, I found Melissa, some sixth…

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A Good Sick Girl Never Gives Up

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 2

Enjoy this poem in audio version here. A good sick girl would never give up.She pushes on in search of a cure,working as if all depended on her.“Not knowing beforehand” what she should do,she moves…

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Hippocrates

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 2

Enjoy this poem in audio version here. The doctor calls her sweetheart when she criesat hearing there is nothing he can find.He pats her back but will not meet her eyes. He doesn’t really mean…

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Migraine Suite

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 2

Enjoy this poem in audio version here. Prelude Something is not right.      A haunting quaver to the world. Your mind  feels viscous, your body      watery. The lights have dimmed. The sense      of the smell  of ozone. AllemandeA greasy fingerprint on…

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My Body in the Temple

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 1

Listen the Out Loud version of this poem here. Halfway through the session, I become awareof a full bladder and nothing else.All that is holy is eclipsedby flesh. I pant in claustrophobiabetween the lady who…

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Review: “Twisted Apples”: Lance Larsen Takes on Prose Poetry Lance Larsen. What the Body Knows

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 2

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Echo of Boy

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 2

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Washing Mother

Articles/Essays – Volume 39, No. 3

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Patriarchal Blessing

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 4

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To My Teacher

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 4

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Balancing Faith and Honesty : Segullah: Writings by Latter-day Saint Women

Articles/Essays – Volume 41, No. 1

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