
Kylie Nielson Turley
KYLIE NIELSON TURLEY {[email protected]} (MA in American Studies) has taught various writing and literature courses at UVU and BYU-Provo since 1995. She currently teaches BYU’s “Literature of the LDS People” course.
“Is this the Promised End?” | Steven L. Peck, The Tragedy of King Leere, Goatherd of the La Sals
Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 3
Steven L. Peck’s The Tragedy of King Leere, Goatherd of the La Sals is, like many of Peck’s works, almost impossible to categorize. Is it a modern-day ecological interpretation of the famous Shakespearian familial tragedy?…
Read morePersonal Voices: Eyes to See
Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 1
My first pair of glasses had green plastic rims and Coke-bottle thick, anti-glare-coated lenses, which reflected green light. In every fourth grade photo, my eyes hid behind a glint of green flashing fire, but I did not care because when I slid the glasses on in the doctor’s office, the blurry rack of “For Sale” frames suddenly snapped into distinct lines and angles. I slipped the glasses off, then on again—watching the frames become blurry, then crisp again. Yet even knowing about the stunning change, I jerked to a stop outside the doctor’s office door, my mom and the trail of siblings piling up behind me. I stared at the trees across the street. Angular leaves fluttered in the breeze, avocado undersides distinct from their forest green tops.
Read moreCemetery Life
Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 4
My yellow 1946 house faces Provo’s peculiarly Mormon-Utah-style cemetary. Tall trees line small lanes which are set at precise right angles, a perfect grid made by Latter-day pioneer planners. The lanes come complete with miniature…
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