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
 
Elise Paschen 04/02/2010
 
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
 
Twice-Told Tales 09/30/2009
 
Laurie Sheck and Dan Beachy-Quick re-write the classics
Article on the Poetry Foundation website
 
 
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays
by Eula Bliss
Tess's Review in The Barnes & Noble Review
 
 
Letters to a Stranger
by Thomas James
Tess's review in the Boston Review
 
 
Tess's thoughts on the best in reading in 2008.
In The Barnes & Noble Review