Finding the Sacred in the Everyday, with Darlene Young, poet

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast

Jan 23 2024 | 00:40:05

00:00 / 00:40:05

Show Notes

I sat down last spring with Darlene Young, a poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction writer who teaches in the English Department at BYU. We spoke about her two volumes of published poems, Homespun and Angel Feathers (2019) and Here (2023). We also talked about the relationship between poetry and faith, bringing humor to sacred things, and finding a distinctive voice as a poet and as a devoutly religious person.

Other Episodes

Episode 0

November 24, 2025 • 00:41:28

Ep. 112: Highlighted episode: Reimagining Job with Diane Glancy, distinguished American poet and author

Diane Glancy is a prolific and acclaimed poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and professor emeritus at Macalester College. Her awards include the Pablo Neruda Prize...

Episode 0

January 09, 2023 • 00:38:31

Contemplative Realism, or, Spiritual Life in Fiction with guest Joshua Hren, Wiseblood Books and University of St. Thomas, Houston

Joshua Hren is founder of Wiseblood Books and co-founder of the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. His...

Episode 0

October 04, 2021 • 00:55:31

Grief and Poetry, with guest Kim Langley

Kim Langley is president of LifeBalance Enterprises and founder of WordSPA (short for spirituality, poetry, appreciation), an organization that engages poetry as a healing...