Doug Talley

Poetry collections

• Adam's Dream (Parables Publishing 2011)
• The Angel Voice of Irony (Cato Publishing 2001)

Poems

“Autobiography” published in Bellowing Ark 25.5 (September/October 2009)

“Devotion to the Inexplicable” published in Bellowing Ark 25.5 (September/October 2009)

“Swatting Moths” published in Bellowing Ark 25.5 (September/October 2009)

“The Poet as Crow and Angel” published in Bellowing Ark 25.5 (September/October 2009)

“Caelestia” published in Irreantum 11.1&2 (2009)

“Finding Place” published in Irreantum 11.1&2 (2009)

“Overcoming the World” published in Irreantum 11.1&2 (2009)

“Call to Repentance” published in Ancient Paths 14 (2007)

“Now and Then a Parable” published in Christianity and Literature 53.4 (Summer 2004)

“Winterlude” published in Edge City Review 6.3 (2004)

“Confession of the Sometime Lost” published in Literature and Belief 23.2 (2003)

“Sweet Nothing” published in Midwest Poetry Review 22.3 (August 2001)

“All That Did Not Fall” published in The American Scholar 67.3 (Summer 1998)

“Celebration of the Last Day” published in The American Scholar (Autumn 1996)

“Day Star Risen” published in The American Scholar (Autumn 1995),

republished in Anthology of Magazine Verse/Yearbook of American Poetry (1997)

“Her Song in the Open” published in The Lyric 74.1 (Winter 1994)

“The Kiss Made Holy” published in Riverrun (Spring/Summer 1994)

“The Former Rain” published in Ensign 24.8 (August 1994)

“A Song of Eden” published in Piedmont Literary Review XVII:I (1993)

“A House for the Son” published in Hellas 4.1 (Summer 1993)

“Angels All Around” published in Plains Poetry Journal 37 (Summer 1993)

“Her Dream of Calvary” published in Riverrun (Fall 1993)

“A Hope of Children” published in Hellas 3.2 (Fall 1992)

“April in the Wind” published in Hellas 3.2 (Fall 1992)

Essays

"Classics for the Common Reader" published in Meridian Magazine (October 2010)

“The Myriad Unknown: Mark D. Bennion’s Psalm & Selah” published in Irreantum 12.1 (2010)

“The Irony of Gethsemane, the Cross and the Garden Tomb” published in Meridian Magazine (April 2009)

“Miniature Drama: Javen Tanner’s Curses for Your Sake” published in Meridian Magazine (December 2006)

“Love at First and Last Sight” published in Meridian Magazine (October 2006)

“Psalmist of the New Testament” published in Meridian Magazine (September 2006)

“The Signature of a Voice” published in Meridian Magazine (June 2006)

“The Art of Personality” published in Meridian Magazine (May 2006)

“The Flight of Dream and Poem” published in Meridian Magazine (March 2006)

“The Center of the Mystery” published in Meridian Magazine (February 2006)

“Learning from the Masters” published in Meridian Magazine (January 2006)

“The Adequate Symbol” published in Meridian Magazine (November 2005)

“Articulating Sublimity: Kimberly Johnson’s Leviathan with a Hook” published in Meridian Magazine (September 2005)

“Developing a Sense of the Poetic” published in Meridian Magazine (August 2005)

“Reading the Three Books of God” published in Meridian Magazine (June 2005)

“The Personality of Jesus” published in Meridian Magazine (May 2005)

“The Beatitudes: Poem of Hope and Irony” published in Meridian Magazine (March/April 2005)

“Permission for Poetry and Other Scandals” published in Meridian Magazine (January 2005)

“The Poetic Genius of Alma the Younger” published in Meridian Magazine (September through December 2004)

“Matter Equals Energy” published in Meridian Magazine (August 2004)

“Words that Make Us Friends” published in Meridian Magazine (July 2004)

“The Price of Freedom” published in Meridian Magazine (June 2004)

“Songs to Thaw the Winter Heart” published in Meridian Magazine (May 2004)

“Early Easter Lyrics” published in Meridian Magazine (April 2004)

“Celestial Love Poetry” published in Meridian Magazine (March 2004)

“Love Poetry with an Edge” published in Meridian Magazine (February 2004)

“The Poetic Genius of Jesus” published in Meridian Magazine (January 2004)

“Metaphor for the Holiday” published in Meridian Magazine (December 2003)

“Recovering Lost Literature” published in Meridian Magazine (November 2003)

“Building the Kingdom with Words: Poetry of Jim Richards” published in Meridian Magazine (October 2003)

“Striving for Perfection” published in Meridian Magazine (August 2003)

“Seeking the Best Books: Susan Elizabeth Howe’s Stone Spirits” published in Meridian Magazine (July 2003)

“Of War and Poets” published in Meridian Magazine (March through June 2003)

“Exalting Small Disturbances: Lance Larsen’s Erasable Walls” published in Meridian Magazine (February 2003)

“A Question of Authority” published in Meridian Magazine (December 2002)

“The Companionship of Words” published in Meridian Magazine (November 2002)

“The Song of the Heart” published in Meridian Magazine (October 2002)

“The Yoke of Discipleship” published in Meridian Magazine (October 2002)

“Poetry that will Survive into the Millennium” published in Meridian Magazine (September 2002)

“Metaphor: Poetry of Jim Richards” published in Meridian Magazine (July 2002)

Editorships

• Meridian Magazine (poetry editor)