Read and listen to Tess on NPR's All Things Considered.

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

Maureen N. McLane's two fabulous debut books capture contemporary flux with jagged grace. Read the review...

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. 

Two crazy French cats explore 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 Else by Elise Paschen

Tess's review in the Chicago Tribune

Beauty and Digression

by Zbigniew Herbert 

Tess's Review in The Barnes & Noble Review

Tess's Picks for the Best Poetry in 2009

In The Barnes & Noble Review