Darlene Young
Interviews and other Stuff
Watch or listen to me read poetry with some other great poets at Signature's Poetry Night, April 2024.
I have a great conversation with Beth Reeve about Count Me In for this Signature podcast.
BYU Studies reports on my participation in its yearly contest here.
Matthew Wickman of BYU's Humanities College interviewed me for his Literature and Belief podcast.
My Fall 2023 interview with Inscape, BYU's literary journal, is here. Scroll to p. 146.
I had a wonderful interview about poetry and faith with Aubrey and Tim Chavez for Faith Matters. Listen to the audio here or watch the interview here.
In this video, which is part of Dialogue Journal's 2023 Gospel Study program, I join poet Alixa Brobbey and scholar/composer/singer Rebekah Call to talk about some of Christ's miracles and how artists approach gospel topics
Interview (video) with Angela Hallstrom as part of the Association for Mormon Letters annual meeting, July 2022, on the occasion of receiving the Smith-Pettit Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Mormon Letters
"MoPoWriMo as (Spiritual) Practice" (video): paper presented at the 2022 meeting of the Association for Mormon Letters.
Reading (video, see 36:00-40:45): award winners' reading, meeting of the Association for Mormon Letters, July 23, 2022.
"Devotional Poetry" panel discussion with poets Tacey Atsitty, Jacqueline Osherow, Michael Sowder, and me at the Utah State Poetry Festival, April 2021.
Video: my panel presentation for the Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts with Susan Elizabeth Howe on How Faith Enters Poetry.
My interview with Inscape journal.
My interview with Mattathias Westwood for his blog, Mattathias Reads the World.
Read "Why I Write for Mormons"
My poetry reading at BYU's English Reading Series, spring 2020
See me read rather awkwardly at a poetry slam for the Association for Mormon Letters.
Hear Lara Craner read my poem "How Long" the way it is supposed to be read. (I wish I could have her read all my work for me.)
Tyler Chadwick's very nice thoughts about "How Long."
Hear Jim Richards read my poem "Angels of Mercy" here, and then read the fantastic poem he wrote in response here.
An old interview with my beloved Segullah journal.
And another interview with Segullah's Melonie Canon, this one a podcast.
And a very old interview with William Morris of Motley Vision.