Author this year developing podcast series about 20th century artists’ lives, working on gardening anthology
By LOU FANCHER | Correspondent
PUBLISHED: January 24, 2023 at 12:25 p.m. | UPDATED: January 25, 2023 at 6:30 a.m.
To say Tess Taylor is a poet is reductive. Indeed, the El Cerrito-based writer’s (tess-taylor.com) work sprawls to include not just a poetry chapbook (“The Misremembered World”), poem collections in two books (“The Forage House” and “Rift Zone”), a farm journal (“Work & Days”) and the intriguing “Last West,” a book released in conjunction with the New York Museum of Modern Art’s “Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures,” the first major solo exhibition of Lange’s work in more than 50 years.