Sun, 06 May 2012 09:21:01 -0800WeeblyTue, 10 May 2011 07:30:01 -0800http://www.tess-taylor.com/1/post/2011/05/hoof-power-ox-rock.htmlMy piece for the NYTimes Dining Section about the joys of farming with oxen!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/dining/04oxen.html
]]>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:30:11 -0800http://www.tess-taylor.com/1/post/2011/04/maureen-mclanes-floating-world.htmlMaureen N. McLane's two fabulous debut books capture contemporary flux with jagged grace:  http://bostonreview.net/BR36.2/tess_taylor_maureen_n_mclane.php ]]>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:00:09 -0800http://www.tess-taylor.com/1/post/2011/01/post-title-click-and-type-to-edit1.html 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
]]>Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 -0800http://www.tess-taylor.com/1/post/2010/05/two-great-books-on-alex-de-tooqueville.htmlTwo 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. ]]>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0800http://www.tess-taylor.com/1/post/2010/04/natural-history-of-my-hunger.htmlOf eating disorders, gardening and my new work on the farm... The Owls]]>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0800http://www.tess-taylor.com/1/post/2010/04/stanza-spring-awakening.htmlSpring Awakening
Tess's essay on poetry and the first entry in her column: Stanza.
In the Barnes & Noble Review
]]>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0800http://www.tess-taylor.com/1/post/2010/04/elise-paschen.htmlPoetry Speaks Who I Am: Poems of Discovery, Inspiration, Independence and Everything Elseby Elise Paschen
Tess's review in the Chicago Tribune]]>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800http://www.tess-taylor.com/1/post/2010/03/selected-poems-of-thom-gunn-edited-by-august-kleinzahler.htmlSelected 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
]]>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800http://www.tess-taylor.com/1/post/2009/12/the-best-of-poetry-2009.htmlTess's Picks for the Best Poetry in 2009
In The Barnes & Noble Review
]]>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0800http://www.tess-taylor.com/1/post/2009/09/twice-told-tales.htmlLaurie Sheck and Dan Beachy-Quick re-write the classics
Article on the Poetry Foundation website]]>