Poetry reviewer Tess Taylor has just spent the past semester teaching in Belfast, Ireland. She talks about how Seamus Heaney poems and visions of home swirled in her head.
Familiar Shapes Entering the Body Raw and Undigested
Tess reviews Adam Fitzgerald's second book of poems, George Washington, for the Boston Review.
On a Road Trip Through Virginia, Change Meets Tradition
Tess explores the past and present during a road trip through Virginia in her article for the April issue of Travel + Leisure Magazine.
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Performance of Quatrains on a Loss at Rhymes with Opera Salon
Soprano Michele Kennedy and Pianist Emily Manzo perform Quatrains on a Loss: Aaron Siegel, Composer and Tess Taylor, Poet. March 2017.
Room Magazine reviews Work & Days
"Tess Taylor’s Work & Days performs a moral, political, material, spiritual environmentalism... Deceptively quiet and simple, Taylor’s poetic vision grasps both granular textures of the seeds she plants in the earth and the looming, pressing concerns blooming on the global scale."
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Review of Work and Days by Marcela Sulak
Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry: Robert Pinsky and Tess Taylor
Read the Review by Lisa Russ Spaar in the LA Review of Books.
Read MoreOp-Ed: Unplug the phone, turn off the news, light the light and read together
Tess Taylor and Edan Lepucki's op-ed piece for the L.A. Times on the joys of reading together. Read it here...
Read MoreReview: 'House Of Lords And Commons,' Ishion Hutchinson on NPR
Tess Taylor reviews House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson on NPR. Listen to the review...
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'Garden Time' by W.S. Merwin
Tess Taylor reviews the most recent collection by W.S. Merwin called, Garden Time on NPR. Listen to Tess here...
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