Holly Welker

HOLLY WELKER {[email protected]} is the editor of Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage (2016) and co-editor of Singing and Dancing to The Book of Mormon: Critical Essays on the Broadway Musical (2016). Her poetry and prose have appeared in such publications as Best American Essays, Bitch, the Iowa Review, and the New York Times.

Willing the Storm

Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 1

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Beautiful Naked Women

Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 2

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Commerce

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 2

Sitting naked by the pool I can see 
many more trees than the two very tall 
ones visible from my kitchen window 
as shadows in the early morning. If 

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I Can Wait For

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 3

I purposely forget what you look like 
so each time I see you I am surprised 
again by your beauty. Your name is the 
charm I offer nervous cats instead of 

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Innocence

Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 1

I confess I have invented a word 
for the thing I am and the thing I have done. 

It is a pleasant word and may be spoken 
to young children or written in their books.

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Nickel Girls

Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 1

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Variation on a Love Letter

Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 4

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Postcard

Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 2

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A Body That Expands

Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 2

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Brando

Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 2

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The Invisible Woman

Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 2

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Ghost Month

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 2

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Because Last Night Was Friday Night

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 2

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What You Walk Away From

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 1

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Indian Summer

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 3

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Commonplace Nightmares

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 4

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Dig

Articles/Essays – Volume 34, No. 3

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Junior Companion

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3

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The Meadow

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 4

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Self-Portrait as Burnt Offering

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 4

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A Price Far above Rubies versus Eight Cows: What’s a Virtuous Woman Worth?

Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 1

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The Plan of Stagnation: A Review of Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 4

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