Doug Talley graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University in 1976. Upon graduation he spent the summer in the Grand Tetons looking for God, which led him on a hitch-hiking spree to Salt Lake City. He joined the Church and thereafter served in the Italy, Rome Mission from 1978 to 1980. After his mission he enrolled in the University of Akron School of Law. He graduated in 1984 and has “fiddled at the law” ever since, currently as the CEO of Millennial Assurance Services, Inc. He has published one book of poetry, The Angel Voice of Irony , a sonnet sequence about his conversion. A second book of poetry, April in October , is planned for publication in 2003. His poems have appeared in The American Scholar , Midwest Poetry Review , Piedmont Literary Review , Hellas , and other journals. He and his wife and seven children live in Akron, Ohio, where he has served in every ward calling from scoutmaster to bishop.
What so often hurts and burdens us is saturated with…