Tess reviews Tom Sleigh's The Land Between Two Rivers, and House of Fact, House of Ruin
Read MoreCNN OP-ED: Can we make 2017's toxic outrage into 2018's humanity?
This winter, just after I'd written an op-ed for CNN about gun violence, I received a bunch of notes, mostly lovely ones, in my inbox. Some were unpleasant, and among them two really stood out to me ...
Barnes and Noble Review "Voices Unbound" by Tess Taylor →
When I was growing up in San Francisco, singing choral music in the San Francisco Girls Chorus, I and my fellow choristers were, for the most part, learning to perform music that had, for most of its history, been sung by boys or men.
Read MoreCNN OP-ED: Do we love our guns more than our children?
When I was 12, in the sixth grade in El Cerrito, California, one of my classmates brought a gun to school. She was a bright fellow student -- flamboyant, funny, sometimes moody -- occasionally in trouble...
Randall Mann's 'Proprietary' Reinvents Classic San Francisco Poetry
Tess Taylor reviews Randall Mann's new collection, Proprietary, which looks at the changes in San Francisco.
Seamus Heaney Poems Come To Life In Belfast, Ireland
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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