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…
Read moreA 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…
Read moreHippocrates
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…
Read moreMigraine 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…
Read moreMy 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…
Read moreReview: “Twisted Apples”: Lance Larsen Takes on Prose Poetry Lance Larsen. What the Body Knows
Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 2
Balancing Faith and Honesty : Segullah: Writings by Latter-day Saint Women
Articles/Essays – Volume 41, No. 1