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Jeffrey Brown's new poetry collection, The News.

October 2, 2015

Critic Tess Taylor reviews journalist Jeffrey Brown's poetry collection, The News.

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Interview with Tess Taylor on The Cloudy House

September 29, 2015

Tess talks about The Forage House in an interview on The Cloudy House website.

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The Confederates in Our Attic

September 21, 2015

A new essay by Tess Taylor for The Oxford American.

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Time on Earth

July 31, 2015

"Time on Earth", another poem from Tess's forthcoming new book, Work and Days, appeared on The Common.

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Songs in Late Summer

July 31, 2015

A poem from Tess's forthcoming new book, Work and Days, was recently published in The Colorado Review.

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Report from the Field: But Do You Have to Work?

July 28, 2015

A piece by Tess written for the VIDA, Women in Literary Arts web site.

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How to be Drawn

July 21, 2015

Tess reviews Terrance Hayes' collection of poetry, How to be Drawn.

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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

July 20, 2015

Tess reviews a memoir by William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.

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El Camino Real

July 13, 2015

A recent poem published in the Virginia Quarterly Review.

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Deborah Landau's new collection, The Uses Of The Body

July 2, 2015

Tess reviews The Uses of the Body, a new collection of poetry by Deborah Landau.

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