My piece for the NYTimes Dining Section about the joys of farming with oxen!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/dining/04oxen.html
 
 
Maureen N. McLane's two fabulous debut books capture contemporary flux with jagged grace:  http://bostonreview.net/BR36.2/tess_taylor_maureen_n_mclane.php
 
 
 Thom Gunn was a quintessential San Francisco poet-- or was he an Elizabethan who just happened to live in the 20th century tenderloin?  I examine his Collected Poems, and a new Selected Poems edited by August Kleinzahler here.
http://bostonreview.net/BR35.2/taylor.php
 
 
Two crazy French cats expore American democracy circa 1830 and find it... well, baffling, enchanting, suspect, promising, romantic, dizzying and not at all like France. Read all about it. 
 
 
Of eating disorders, gardening and my new work on the farm... The Owls
 
 
Spring Awakening
Tess's essay on poetry and the first entry in her column: Stanza.
In the Barnes & Noble Review
 
 
Poetry Speaks Who I Am: Poems of Discovery, Inspiration, Independence and Everything Elseby Elise Paschen
Tess's review in the Chicago Tribune
 
 
Selected Poems
Thom Gunn
edited by August Kleinzahler

At the Barriers: on the Poetry of Thom Gunn
edited by Joshua Weiner


Tess's essay  in The Boston Review
 
 
Tess's Picks for the Best Poetry in 2009
In The Barnes & Noble Review
 
 
Laurie Sheck and Dan Beachy-Quick re-write the classics
Article on the Poetry Foundation website