past events
march 22, 2024 | WASHINGTON, D.C.
6:00–8:00PM
Reading, Busboys and Poets
With Ross Gay, L. RenÉe and Tess Taylor, followed by book signing
FEBRUARY 9, 2024 | KANSAS CITY, MO
7:00–9:00PM
NATASHA RIA ART GALLERY
ECOTHEO OFF-SITE READING
WITH JASON MYERS, TESS TAYLOR, FRANCISCO ARAGON, AND MAYA POPA
FEBRUARY 8, 2024 | KANSAS CITY, MO
6:00–8:00PM
LINDA HALL LIBRARY LEANING TOWARD LIGHT: POEMS FOR GARDENS AND THE HANDS THAT TEND THEM
WITH RUBEN QUESADA, ANNA V.Q. ROSS, PATTY CRANE, ASHLEY JONES, HANNAH FRIES, SOPHIE CABOT BLACK, SUSAN NGUYEN, ANN FISHER-WIRTH, JASON MYERS, AND TESS TAYLOR
FEBRUARY 8, 2024 | KANSAS CITY, MO
3:00–4:00PM
BOOK SIGNING, TERRAIN BOOKS BOOTH (3025), AWP CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 8, 2024 | KANSAS CITY, MO
12:00–1:00PM
BOOK SIGNING, TERRAIN BOOKS BOOTH (3025), AWP CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 8, 2024 | KANSAS CITY, MO
10:30–11:30AM
BOOK SIGNING, RED HEN BOOTH (619/621/623), AWP CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 7, 2024 | KANSAS CITY, MO
6:00–8:00PM
WILD PATIENCE: A POET-MOM READING, 21C MUSEUM HOTEL
FEATURED READERS INCLUDE TESS TAYLOR, IRIS JAMAHL DUNKLE, KEETJE KUIPERS, NICOLE CALLIHAN, JULIA KOLCHINSKY DASBACH, AND MORE
FEBRUARY 5, 2024 | ST. LOUIS, MO
7:00–8:00PM
THE NOVEL NEIGHBOR, POETRY IN THE WOODS SPRING FORWARDS SERIES
TESS TAYLOR & DANA LEVIN SHARE POEMS FROM LEANING TOWARD LIGHT: POEMS FOR GARDENS AND THE HANDS THAT TEND THEM. BOOK SIGNING FOLLOWS.
FEBRUARY 1, 2024 | NAPA, CA
6:00PM
NAPA BOOKMINE
MANJULA MARTIN, AUTHOR OF THE LAST FIRE SEASON, IN CONVERSATION WITH TESS TAYLOR
EVENTBRITE
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JANUARY 27, 2024 | LOS ANGELES, CA
5:00–7:00PM
INTIMATE ADDRESSES LIVE RECORDING SESSION
GETTY CENTER MUSEUM LECTURE HALL
JOIN THE HOST OF GETTY'S PODCAST RECORDING ARTISTS: INTIMATE ADDRESSES FOR A CONVERSATION AND LIVE PODCAST RECORDING ABOUT SOME OF THE 20TH CENTURY'S MOST INFLUENTIAL ARTISTS AS TOLD THROUGH THEIR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. WITH PIETRO RIGOLO AND MAYA BINHAM, REFRESHMENTS TO FOLLOW.
JANUARY 26, 2024 | SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY
7:00PM EST
HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS CENTER
A ZOOM READING WITH DAVID BAKER, ELLEN BASS, SOPHIE CABOT BLACK, MARK DOTY, HALEH LIZA GAFORI, ASHLEY M. JONES, DANUSHA LAMÉRIS, BRYNN SAITO, & TESS TAYLOR FROM LEANING TOWARD LIGHT: POEMS FOR GARDENS & THE HANDS THAT TEND THEM (VIA ZOOM)
PAST EVENTS 2023
DECEMBER 19, 2023 | SONOMA, CA
7:30pm
SONOMA VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART
POETRY, ART, FOOD & WINE PAIRING WITH TESS TAYLOR (EDITOR), FORREST GANDER, KATIE PETERSON, & MAW SHEIN WIN
November 13, 2023
7:30pm
KGB Reading room
WITH ERIN HOOVER AND PAUL MADDERN
November 9, 2023 | SF, VIRTUAL
6:00pm
SF ZEN CENTER
with Tess Taylor, Danusha Lameris, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mark Doty, Brynn Saito, and Genine Marie Lentine
October 26, 2023 | NAPA, CA
6:00–7:00pm
NAPA BOOKMINE
with Tess Taylor in conversation with Kathleen Patterson
October 12, 2023 | MT, VIRTUAL
5:00–6:00pm
OLD FIREHOUSE BOOKS
with Tess Taylor, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Laura Moseley, Cleopatra Mathis, Matt Radar, Laura Villareal, and Arthur Sze
October 8, 2023 | san francisco, ca
3:00–4:00pm
LITQUAKE AT THE SAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN
with Tess Taylor, Alan Chazaro, Claudia Monpere, and Jane Hirshfield
October 4, 2023 | BERKELEY, ca
6:00pm
BOOKS INC.
with Tess Taylor
October 1, 2023 | eugene, or
3:00–5:00pm
CASCADIA FIELD GUIDE EVENT AT TSUNAMI BOOKS
with Tess Taylor, Elizabeth Bradfield, Derek Sheffield, Garrett Hongo, Jorah Lafleur, and Don Latarski
September 19, 2023 | AMHERST, MA
7:00pm
THE BOOK AND PLOW FARM (details coming soon)
with Tess Taylor Kirin Kapur, Hannah Fries, Brian Simoneau, and Anna V.Q. Ross
September 17, 2023 | BEVERLY, MA
4:00–6:00pM
IN GREEN SHADE: AN EVENING OF POEMS IN THE GARDEN AT LONG HILL
with Tess Taylor, Patty Crane, January Gill O'Neil, Brian Simoneau, Anna V. G. Ross, and Cleopatra Mathis
September 14-16, 2023 | PRINCETON, NJ
SOIL AND LIGHT, A POETRY EVENT AT THE FARMINARY
with Tess Taylor, Camille Dungy, and Jason Myers
September 12, 2023 | BOSTON, MA
6:00–7:30pm
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, COURTYARD
with Tess Taylor, Stephanie L. Burt, Anna V.Q.Ross, January Gill O'Neil, Kirun Kapur, and Brian Simoneau
September 10, 2023 | COLUMBUS, OH
4:30pm
WELLS BARN IN FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVANCY
With Tess Taylor and Susan Barba (American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide) in conversation with David Baker
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 | BROOKLYN, NY
7:30–8:30pm
GREENLIGHT BOOKS
RESERVE YOUR TICKETS HERE
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 | NYC, NY
6:00–7:30pm
BRYANT PARK OUTDOOR READING ROOM
More info here
SHORE POETS MAY 2023: TESS TAYLOR, REGI CLAIRE, OPEN MIC + DEKOY
August 31, 2023 | SANTA CRUZ, CA
7:00pm
Bookshop Santa Cruz
grab your ticket here.
August 24, 2023 | Oakland, CA
5:30–7:00PM
UC Berkeley Botanical Garden
Make sure to grab a ticket here.
Thursday, May 25, 2023
7:45pm – 9:15pm (doors open 7:30pm)
The Waverley Bar, 3-5 St Mary’s St, Edinburgh EH1 1TA
More info…
PAST EVENTS 2022
Sept 28 – Nov. 16, 2022 | Seattle, WA
Hugo House
Assembling the Manuscript
As poets, how do we put books together? What does it mean to move from writing good poems to weaving and assembling an entire book? We will read several collections to understand their logics of assembly, do strategic writing to fill out our collections, generate new material, edit what we have, and collect strategies for aligning our own poems. Registration TBA.
Wednesdays 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm PDT, via Zoom
Sept 28, Oct 5 , 19, 26, Nov 9 , 16
Sept 28 – Nov. 16, 2022 | Seattle, WA
Hugo House
Doing the Deep Dive: build your booK: a three-day generative workshop
Do you want to find the book that is inside your poems? Do you find yourself wondering how to write into the book you have, and how to recognize the forces and forms that are emerging? Develop actionable strategies for dreaming and writing the poems that resonate towards collection. Engage in reading, generative exercises, and collaborative editing in a three-day workshop, with the goal of completing the book of poems inside you. Especially geared towards students who have taken Assembling the Collection, but also for anyone ready to take risks and generate new materials toward a collection of poems. Registration TBA.
NOVEMBER 3–NOVEMBER 4, 2022 | CONWAY, AK
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS
THE C.D. WRIGHT WOMEN WRITERS CONFERENCE
Visiting Writer in our Artist-in-Residence program. I will offer a masterclass and participate as keynote. More details TBA.
OCTOBER 2, 2022 | SAN FRANCISCO,CA
Bazaar Writers Salon (TBA)
SEP 19, 2022 - SEP 23, 2022 | ROCKPORT, ME
MAINE MEDIA WORKSHOPS AND COLLEGE
WANDERING, WRITING, ROOTING: AN EXPLORATION OF POEMS IN PLACE
Combining writing on field trips, writing alone, and writing in class, we’ll experiment with a variety of approaches to writing ourselves into the world, and celebrating the places we are.We will also hear some tremendous new work of visiting writers, and we’ll generate our own poems. Come prepared to take risks, generate new poems, and explore the beauty of Midcoast Maine.
This workshop is open to writers of all experience levels.
Register HERE
JULY 21-AUG 3, 2022 | ASHLAND, OH
ASHLAND MFA SUMMER RESIDENCY
The 2022 Summer Residency will be held at Ashland University Monday, July 25 through Friday, August 5. For the public events schedule, please visit our Summer Reading & Seminar Series page. Readings and panels will be livestreamed on Facebook and craft sessions will be recorded and put on their website.
JUNE 7, 2022 | NEW YORK, NY
BRYANT PARK, 6:00PM PST
The launch of the summer Poetry Series, with Dan Alter, Sandra Lim, and Nick Flynn.
APRIL 24, 2022 | CORTE MADERA, CA
BOOK PASSAGE 4:00 PM
How do you Write this Faultine? Change & Dream in the Bay Area
With New Yorker staffer Nathan Heller. We’ll read and discuss the crises and joys of the Bay Area, including but not limited to: Shelterlessness, migration, historic SF & Berkeley leading to the present; why the Bay Area is both an edge and a center— how what we do here casts a long shadow.
And we’ll ask how to capture it— how do you write a moment and an arc? Finally, what does the future hold?
APRIL 23, 2022 | LOS ANGELES, CA
GETTY CENTER AUDITORIUM, 2:00 PM PST
Written from Images: Literature Inspired by Dorothea Lange
I’ll be joined by Jasmin Dzarnik, whose new novel, The Bohemians tells a California story through the lens of Lange's life. With Lange specialist and art historian Sally Stein. FREE, in person and online, but reserve tickets here.
APRIL 21, 2022 | DAVIS, CA
JOHN NATSOULAS GALLERY, 7:00PM PST
I join poet Noah Warren, and host Andy Jones in the return of the live series in this beautiful rooftop sculpture garden!
APRIL 19 | SEATTLE, WA
HUGO HOUSE, 7:00PM PST
Personal as Prelude: A Poetry Reading
I join Seattle-based poets Dujie Tahat, Luther Hughes, Gabrielle Bates and NYC-based Julia Guez.
APRIL 19 | HOUSTON, TX
Developmental Theater Reading (closed)
March 3, 2022| Virtual
Whitman College 6:30-7:30 PST
Readings from Last West and RIft Zone
March 5, 2022 | San Francisco, CA
Koret Center SFPL 1-3pm PST
Crossroads Irish American Festival
Discussion of art and cultural repair
SFPL Events link
March 7, 2022 | NYC
KGB 7:00 pm ET
Monday Night poetry
With Jason Koo
March 11, 2022 | San Francisco, CA (hybrid)
Green Apple Books, 7:00 pm PST
With Dan Alter and Marcelo Castillo
In person, or online through the Zoom registration link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EyEMKXBlT-STkvjRgNKghQ
March 18, 2022 | San Francisco, CA
Salesforce park, 5:00 PM PST
The Writer’s Grotto Words and Music Series— With Mary Ladd, Grace Loh Prasad, Lee Kravetz
March 23 - 26 | Philadelphia, PA
2022 AWP CONFERENCE & BOOKFAIR
One virtual event & two in-person craft talks at the
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Writers are Laborers Too: Building the Road to Relief, Recovery, and Representation
Scheduled Day: Thursday, March 24, 2022
Scheduled Time: 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM ET
Location: #AWP22 Virtual Conference Platform
Extending the Frame: Toward a New Ekphrasis
Scheduled Day: Thursday, March 24, 2022
Scheduled Time: 3:20 PM – 4:35 PM ET
Pennsylvania Convention Center, 113C
Voyage Image Poem: An Exploration of Hybrid Texts
Scheduled Day: Friday, March 25, 2022
Scheduled Time: 3:20 PM–4:35 PM ET
Pennsylvania Convention Center, 115C
More info...
PAST EVENTS 2021
September 29, 2021 ASPECTS FESTIVAL
In conversation with Sinead Morrissey, talking about my new books RIFT ZONE and LAST WEST, which began in Belfast, and my experience in Belfast and how it helped me write two books about California. We’ll also discuss Heaney’s time between California and Belfast in the early 70s. Reading and discussion followed by a Q & A. 11:00 - 12:15 PST.
September 24, 2021
Staging the Poem: Masterclass with Tess Taylor
What is drama in poetry? By turning the lenses of drama on the poems we read and onto our own drafts, participants in this masterclass will think about how the theatrical cues of place, voice, and address make a poem legible to us, and help a poem to feel spoken and embodied across time. More info HERE
June 14 - June 18, 2021
Maine Media's Poetry Week
Details and registration here
May 5 - June 9, 2021
Assembling the Manuscript at Hugo House
As poets, how do we put books together? What does it mean to move from writing good poems to weaving and assembling an entire book? How do poets listen to the specific calls of the muse toward disparate verses and also keep an eye on the wider shape of a possible emergent volume? If you have poems but don’t know how to find the book inside them, this class is for you. We will read several collections to understand their logics of assembly, do strategic writing to fill out our collections, generate new material, edit what we have, and collect strategies for aligning our own poems.
April 14 - April 28, 2021
The Art of Book Reviewing at Hugo House
A good book review is a chance both to explore and name literary pleasure and to offer another artist the gift of our attention. In this class, we will discuss how to develop and craft a book review with care. We will read different book reviews and learn to pitch and write our own, workshopping our material together, with an eye toward entering our own reviews in the literary ecosystem.
April 29, 2021, 7pm EST
Reading at Literati Bookstore with Susan Briante and Phil Metres
Details here
April 19, 2021, 7pm CT
Together in a Sudden Strangeness
Reading at Left Bank Books with Alice Quinn, Traci Brimhall, Aleksandar Hemon, Vincent Katz, Dana Levin, Dante Micheaux, Tommy Orange, Carl Phillips, Diane Seuss and Kevin Young
Details here
April 1, 2021, 7pm PST
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH KICK OFF - Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Brynn Saito & Tess Taylor
Details here
March 18, 2021 5pm PST
“Do We Need a Cultural New Deal?” Writers on Rebuilding from Crisis
Public forum at Politics and Prose with Jason Boog, Chiyuma Elliott, and David Kipen and others!
Register here
March 7, 2021
Seminar: Staging the Poem
Sign up here
February 27,2021
Seminar: Poetry and Repair
Sign up here
February 25, 2021, 5:20pm PST
UCSC Living Writers Series
Reading with Danusha Laméris
February 10, 2021, 7pm PST
Poetry reading at Monterey Peninsula College
Open by reservation. Email Henry Marchand (hmarchand@mpc.edu) within a week of the event for a link to the reading.
February 6 and 13, 2021
Two-session class for Hugo House: Gaining Good Ground
January 27, 2021, 7pm PST
Conversations about Landscape: Observing Landscape—Mirrors of Time
Reading and conversation with Lewis Watts at the Exploratorium
RSVP Here (Required)
PAST EVENTS 2020
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, live webcast
Words We Travel: Poetry and the Road in Tribute to Ed Ruscha
Poetry, Photography, and the (Open) Road
Watch the recording
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Words We Travel: Poetry and the Road in Tribute to Ed Ruscha
Sonoma to MoMA: Last West with Tess Taylor and Sarah Meister
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 8PM EST
Pandemic Poets: Tess Taylor and Dana Levin, in Conversation with "The Common."
FB Livestream event
https://www.facebook.com/LeftBankBooks.STL/live
OCTOBER 28 AT 6PM EST
Talk with Museum of Modern Art curator Sarah Meister about poetry, road trip, and Dorothea Lange
The program will be live soon here!
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 3:00-6:00PM EST
MASTER CLASS: SORROW FOR OUR SONGS: A STUDY OF LAMENT WITH TESS TAYLOR
Register Here
OCTOBER 7, 2020, 7pm PST
Virtual reading at Hugo House with Gabrielle Bates, Julia Guez, Luther Hughes,
and Dujie Tahat. RSVP at this link to join us!
6 SESSIONS: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 27, OCTOBER 4, 11, 18, 15
3:00-6:00PM EST
CRAFT SEMINAR: ASSEMBLING THE COLLECTION: A SIX WEEK INTENSIVE WITH TESS TAYLOR
Register Here
Thursday, August 20, 2020
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Digital LOGOS Gathering, co-sponsored by EcoTheo Review.
To participate in the ZOOM call, please RSVP through Eventbrite on this Facebook event page.
Confirmation email will be sent with ZOOM link and PW for access.
You can also tune-in and watch the event on the LOGOS Facebook page LIVE.
Saturday, June 27, 2020
7 PM – 9:30 PM PDT
Saturday Night Special, A "Summer" Open Mic
RSVP for the Online Event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/297227438110768
PAST EVENTS 2019
Wednesday, June 10, 2019
5:30pm Eastern Time
Seeing Through Photographs Study Center, MoMA, NY
RSVP via zoom link here: https://moma.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tVc2-tqaRy6eZnM3uB6itg
Monday, May 18, 2019
6pm Eastern Time
RIFT INDIGO: Virtual Poetry Reading
Brookline Booksmith
RSVP for the Zoom link here: https://mailchi.mp/ellenbass/tesstaylor
Saturday, April 11, 2020 - 3:00pmPoint Reyes BooksVirtual Poetry Reading : Tess Taylor and Judy Halebsky
Click here for more details
March 21 | New York, NY
2 pm
MoMA Reading with Brynn Saito, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, and Sarah Meister
Paula and James Crown Platform, Museum of Modern Art, NY
February 12 | New York, NY
6pm McNally Jackson Reading
With Linda Gordon and Sarah Meister
52 Prince Street, New York NY
February 10 | New York, NY7pm
KGB Reading
With Nathan McClain and Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
85 E 4th Street, New York NY
https://kgbbar.com/events
February 9 through May 2, 2020 | New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures exhibition opens at The Museum of Modern Art
I hope you will have an opportunity to see the show!
April 16, 2019 | Napa, CA
7pm - 8pm
A conversation with Katie Peterson on her new book A Piece of Good News
Napa Bookmine
https://www.napabookmine.com/event/piece-good-news-katie-peterson
964 Pearl St, Napa, CA 94559
March 29-31, 2019 | St. Louis, MO
Convention for Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society
Talk at 3 or 3:30 pm on Saturday, March 30, 2019 (schedule still fluid)
Discussing Work and Progress in conversation with Work&Days (The Sigma Tau Delta Common Reader)
March 28, 2019 | Portland, Oregon
AWP Convention
Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97232
KENYON REVIEW 80TH ANNIVERSARY READING
9:00AM - 10:15AM
The Kenyon Review celebrates 80 years of publishing new and established voices in contemporary literature. Featuring a diverse selection of KR contributors as well as the latest KR Fellows, this reading will offer a range of styles and viewpoints. Since its founding in 1939, the Kenyon Review has constantly evolved. Now a bimonthly print magazine and thriving online journal, KR plans to celebrate this anniversary by looking ahead. What comes next?
WRITING THE RIFT: LEFT COAST POETRIES, LEFT COAST POETICS WITH WITH DEAN RADER, BRYNN SAITO, JENNIFER FOERSTER, AND MARCELO HERNANDEZ CASTILLO
1:30PM - 2:45PM
We call it 'the West,' but it’s only the West if you come from the East. To some, it’s North; to others, East; to others, simply home. How do the particular histories, crises, fault-lines, and violence of the far side of the continent play into our forms? This panel convenes west coast poets to explore the necessary work of forging a poetics of place in a place of recent arrival. Each poet will ask: what does it mean to write the left coast now?
BOOK SIGNING
3:30PM - 4:30PM
March 27, 2019 | Portland, OR
7pm
Reading with Airea Dee Matthews, Alicia Jo Rabins, and Erika Meitner
The Stacks Coffeehouse
1831 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR 97217
March 25, 2019 | Charlotte, NC
Johnson C. Smith University
March 25, 2019 | Charlotte, NC
Wingate University
MARCH 24, 2019 | CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
1PM
VIRGINIA FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK
CREATING AND LEADING A PANEL WITH NBCC FINALISTS
JEFFERSON-MADISON REGIONAL LIBRARY
HTTPS://WWW.VABOOK.ORG/PARTICIPANT/TESS-TAYLOR/
201 E MARKET ST, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22902
March 14, 2019 | New York, NY
6:30pm
NBCC Awards Ceremony and Reception
The New School Welcome Center
The Awards Ceremony is free & open to the public, and you can buy tickets to the reception here: http://www.bookcritics.org/calendar/events/nbcc-awards-and-gala
72 5th Ave, New York, NY 10011
March 12, 2019 | New York, NY
6pm
Reading with Nicole Callahan and Iris Dunkle
NYU Bookstore
726 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
January 30, 2019 | New York, NY
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
POETRY: GREGORY PARDLO AND TESS TAYLOR
Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series presents
Gregory Pardlo and Tess Taylor
Studio G
Free and open to the public!
PAST EVENTS 2018
December 2, 2018 | Sonoma, California
5:30-7:30 pm
Pairings for the Senses: Art & Poetry + Food & Wine
Hosted by Tess Taylor, Sam Sax, Julia Bouwsma, and Hollie Hardy
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
http://www.svma.org/calendar/events/pairings-senses-art-poetry-food-wine
November 1-4, 2018 | Nashville, Tennessee
Two panel discussions at the ALSCW Conference:
“Each other’s magnitude and bond: Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and Gwendolyn Brooks.” and “Anne Spencer”
Vanderbilt University
Click here for more information
October 28-30, 2018 | Elon,North Carolina
Visit to Elon University and Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society
––Tess Taylor’s Work & Days has been chosen as Sigma Tau Delta’s 2018 Common Reader––
October 27, 2018 | Richmond, Virginia
Tiny Bar
Sounding the Spooky Season: Poetry Readings with Music
Costumes Encouraged!
http://www.321westbroad.com/calendar/
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 |Washington DC
7pm to 8pm
Politics and Prose at Union Market
1270 5th St NE, Washington DC 20002
Kyle Dargan - Anagnorisis: Poems — in conversation with Tess Taylor
This event is free to attend with no reservation required. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.
Click here for more information.
September 14, 2018 |New York City
6:30pm
Poets House
10 River Terrace NY, NY
Kray Hall
Is the Poet the New Public Intellectual? National Book Critics Circle poetry chair Tess Taylor invites some of today’s leading poet critics—Stephanie Burt, Daisy Fried, Greg Pardlo, and Craig Teicher—to talk about how the terrain of criticism is changing; what poets add to the literature of critique; and to what ends we write criticism now. Click here for more information
September 19, 2018 |Amherst, Massachusetts
4:30pm
Reading at Amherst College’s Poetry Salon
Click here for more information
October 12, 2018 | Las Gatos, California
7pm
Bullets, Bells, and Blues
5 N Santa Cruz Ave
Los Gatos, CA 95030
Irish Writers Festival
Click here for more information
October 13, 2018 | Las Gatos, California
2:40 - 6:00pm
Bullets into Bells
Town Chambers Library
Click here for more information
Saturday, April 21, 2018 | Columbia, Missouri
Unbound Book Festival
More info here...
Monday, April 9, 2018 | Baltimore, MD
Bird in Hand Coffee and Books
Alongside Dora Malech, Leslie Harrison, James Arthur
11 E. 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | Lynchburg, VA
Maier Museum
1 Quinlan St, Lynchburg, VA 24503
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 | Lexington, VA
12:15 pm
Washington and Lee University, Hillel 101
More info here...
Friday, March 23, 2018 | Charlottesville, VA
10:00 am and 4:00 pm
Virginia Festival of the Book
Alongside Farmer Karen Washington
New Dominion Bookshop
404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902
More info here...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 | Blacksburg, VA
7:30 pm
Visiting Writers Series
Newman Library Multipurpose Room, Virginia Tech Campus, VA
More info here...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 | Williamsburg, VA
5:00 pm
William & Mary College
Monday & Tuesday, March 12-13, 2018 | Charlotte, NC
Problem Solving in the Interdisciplinary Humanities
Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC
Saturday, March 3, 2018 | Amherst, MA
11:00 am
Amherst College Literary Festival (LitFest)
Alongside poet Rafael Campo
Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Frost Library, Amherst College
More info here...
Thursday, March 1, 2018 | University of Louisville, KY
7:30 pm—9:00 pm
Axton Visiting Writers Series
2215 S 3rd St, Louisville, KY 40208,
University of Louisville Campus, Ekstrom Library, Bingham Poetry Room
More info here...
Saturday, February 24, 2018| Los Angeles, CA
8:00 pm
Water and the Future: Red Hen Press and the Music of Toru Takemitsu
Alongside poet Florencia Ramirez and musicians Alexander Miller & Sara Andon
Music Style: Poetry and Contemporary Classical
Boston Court Performing Arts Center
70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA 91106
More info here...
Monday, February 12, 2018| Riverside, CA
2:30 pm
UCR Writers Week
CHASS Interdisciplinary Building, South – Screening Room, 1128
Free and open to the public.
More info here...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018| New York City, NY
7:00 - 8:15pm
Lowenstein Hall, 113 West 60th Street
12th Floor Lounge/ E. Gerald Corrigan Conference Center
PAST EVENTS 2017
Sunday, December 10, 2017
3p.m.
Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series
Details here...
Four Saturdays: October 14, Saturday, October 28, Saturday, November 4 and Saturday, November 18, 2017
10 a.m. - 12 noon
Digging Deep: Reading Seamus Heaney
In this class, we’ll be reading Heaney in depth across his career and looking at how his work develops from book to book. This is a chance to watch one extraordinary poet grow and change, and also to watch the way the themes of one body of work expand and resonate across time.
Left Margin Lit, 1600 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709
For more information and to enroll...
Thursday, November 16, 2017
7:30 p.m.
Marin Poetry Center reading featuring Julia Bouwsma and Tess Taylor (I really keep great company, don’t I?).
Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission, San Rafael, CA
For more information...
I will be co-curating with Hollie Hardie two Flight of Poets event at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art later this fall. Dates are November 4th and December 2nd. Details TBA. http://www.svma.org/
Thu, October 5, 2017
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Irish Writers Festival Los Gatos - Seamus Heaney: The Berkeley Years
Montalvo Arts Center
15400 Montalvo Road
Saratoga, CA 95071
View Map
More info and tickets here...
Saturday, October 7, 2017
noon to 4:30p.m.
Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival
More info here...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
7:30 p.m.
Poetry Reading with Tess Taylor and Elise Paschen
Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122
For more information...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
10:15-11:45 a.m.
Fulbright Lecture Series featuring Tess Taylor
University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Germany
For more information...
Friday, June 16, 2017
4:30 p.m.
Belfast Book Festival: A Poetry Reading with Andy Eaton and Tess Taylor. Join these two poets for an afternoon reading with drinks and canapes in association with The Lifeboat. Free event.
The Crescent Arts Centre
2-4 University Road, Belfast BT7 1NH
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Thursday, May 4, 2017
8:00 p.m.
Heaney Centre Readings featuring Marilynn Richtarik and Tess Taylor
The Crescent Arts Centre
2-4 University Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
2:15 -3:15 p.m.
Border Crossings: A Reading with Michelle Cahill and Tess Taylor
StAnza, Scotland's International Poetry Festival
The Undercroft, St John's House, South Street, St. Andrews, Scotland
Read a great write-up of the festival...
PAST EVENTS 2016
Sunday, December 4, 2016
6:00 p.m.
Bazaar Writers Salon
Bazaar Café, 5927 California St., San Francisco, CA
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Saturday, December 3, 2016
3:00-5:00 p.m.
PEN West presents: POETS RISING: Tess Taylor, Rachel Richardson and Dean Rader
Please join us for wine and cheese, poetry readings and conversation.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
7:00-8:00 p.m.
Poetry Reading and Q&A with Robert Pinsky, Tess Taylor and Katharine Coles
The Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
6:00 p.m.
The Painted Word Poetry Series with Tess Taylor
Fleming Museum of Art
61 Colchester Avenue, Burlington, Vermont 05405
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
7:30 p.m.
Writing Our Racialized Past: A presentation by Tess Taylor to be followed by discussion.
Hurley Convergence Center, Digital Auditorium
University of Mary Washington
1801 College Ave, Fredericksburg, VA 22401
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Thursday, November 10, 2016
7:30 p.m.
Colorado State University Creative Writing Reading Series: Writers' Harvest Festival
Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, University Center for the Arts
1400 Remington St, Fort Collins, CO
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Poetry Live! with Tess Taylor and Rachel Richardson
Oak View Room - Walnut Creek Library
1644 N. Broadway Ave., Walnut Creek, CA 94596
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Sunday, October 16, 2016
5:30-7:00 p.m.
PAIRINGS FOR THE SENSES: Art+POETRY+Wine
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, 551 Broadway, Sonoma, CA 95476
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Thursday, October 13, 2016
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Litquake Presents Flight of Poets
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
7:00-8:30 p.m.
The Monterey Peninsula College (MPC) Guest Authors Series featuring Tess Taylor
Monterey Peninsula College - The Almaden Room, Student Center
980 Fremont Street, Monterey, California 93940
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Saturday, October 8, 2016
12:45-1:45 p.m.
Litquake Presents the Off the Richter Scale Series: Anon Was A Woman: A Celebration of Female Poets
Mechanics' Institute Library 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94104
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Saturday, September 24, 2016
3:00-5:00 p.m.
100 Thousand Poets for Change in El Cerrito
The Scene, 10700 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, CA 94530
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Saturday, September 10, 2016
6:00 p.m.
Babylon Salon Fall Reading featuring Tess Taylor, Ramona Ausubel, Frances Stroh, and John Jodzio, and J. Ryan Stradal
The Armory Club, 1799 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
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Thursday, September 8, 2016
7:30 p.m.
Naming our Precarious Loves: Poetry by Tess Taylor, Rachel Richardson, Noah Warren and Ari Banias
Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
7:00 p.m.
Red Hen Press Reading featuring Victoria Chang, Andrew Lam, Seema Reza, Brynn Saito, and Tess Taylor
Bryant Park, New York, NY
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016
7:00 p.m.
Poetry Reading with Stephen Burt, Joseph Massey, and Tess Taylor
Porter Square Books
25 White St, Cambridge, MA 02140
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
Doors at 7, Reading at 7:15 p.m.
Why There Are Words
Studio 333, 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito CA 94965
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Friday, March 11, 2016
5:00 p.m.
Spring 2016 Lillian Vernon Reading Series
Poetry Reading by Tess Taylor, Robin Beth Schaer, and Robyn Schiff
This event is hosted by Craig Morgan Teicher. Event is free and open to the public. No RSVP needed. Reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
58 West 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
For more information, visit http://cwp.as.nyu.edu/page/readingseries
Saturday, March 12, 2016
5:30 p.m.
Reading by Tess Taylor, Valzhyna Mort, and Melissa Dickey
The Bookstore
11 Housatonic Street
Lenox, MA 01240
For more information, visit http://bookstoreinlenox.com/
Sunday, March 13, 2016
4-5:30 p.m.
The Sixth Annual Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, at Eastover Estate & Retreat
Green Visions: Writing the Environment in Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry & Prose
Reading and discussion with Jennifer Browdy, Jan Krause Greene, Thea Iberall, Tess Taylor and Jane Yolen
Eastover Estate & Retreat Center
430 East Street
Lenox, MA 01240
(866) 264 5139
For more information, visit http://berkshirewomenwriters.org/event/the-sixth-annual-berkshire-festival-of-women-writers-at-eastover-estate-retreat/
To register, visit http://berkshirewomenwriters.org/product/sunday-march-13-2016/
Saturday, March 19, 2016
4:00 p.m.
Poetry Reading with Tess Taylor and Jennifer Grotz, moderated by Jason Schneiderman
Poets House
10 River Terrace
New York, NY 10282
For more information, visit http://www.poetshouse.org/programs-and-events
March 30 – April 2, 2016
AWP Conference
Los Angeles, CA
Signing books at the Red Hen Press booth during the following days/times:
Thursday, March 31: 1:45-2:45 p.m.
Friday, April 1: 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 31, 2016
3:00-4:15 p.m.
AWP Panel: R267. Genre-Crossing and Poetic Truth: Lyric Nonfictions, Reported Poems; Moderated by Tess Taylor, featuring Camille Dungy, Robert Polito, Tom Sleigh, Brian Turner
Room 518
L.A. Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
1201 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90015
For more information, visit https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/6107
Thursday, March 31, 2016
4:30-5:45 p.m.
AWP Panel: R292. The Many Voices of Poetry; Moderated by Wendy Martin, featuring Don Share, Tess Taylor, Atsuro Riley, and Brandon Som
Room 511
L.A. Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
1201 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90015
For more information, visit
https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/6003
Friday, April 1, 2016
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Red Hen/The Los Angeles Review Reading
Poetry reading by Tess Taylor and other Red Hen authors, to be followed by reception.
Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 West 24th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007
For more information, visit http://www.panoramaonview.org/index.html
Saturday, April 9, 2016
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Launch Party for Work & Days and Hundred-Year Wave
Come help celebrate the publication of Tess Taylor's Work & Days and Rachel Richardson's Hundred-Year Wave.
Flowerland
1330 Solano Ave
Albany, CA 94706
Sunday, April 10, 2016
11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
LA Times Festival of Books
Virginia Quarterly Review: California and the Imagination
Introduction by Dana Gioia, featuring Victoria Chang, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Tess Taylor, to be followed by signing.
Poetry Stage
University of Southern California
University Park Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90089
For more information, visit http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Poetry at the Albany Library
Poetry reading by Tess Taylor and Christina Hutchins
Albany Library
Edith Stone Room
1247 Marin Ave
Albany, CA 94706
(510) 526-3720
For more information, visit http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/events.cfm?curOrg=ACL&curKey1=Albany%20Branch
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
6:30-7:30 p.m.
Poetry at the El Cerrito Library
Poetry Reading with Tess Taylor, Nate Klug, Matthew Siegel, and Rachel Richardson
Readings followed by a Q&A and signing.
6510 Stockton Avenue
El Cerrito, CA 94530
Thursday, May 19, 2016
7:30 pm.
Poetry at Green Apple Books
Poetry reading with Tess Taylor, Rachel Richardson, and Kimberly Grey
Green Apple / Books on the Park
1231 9th Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94122
For more information, visit http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-rachel-richardson-tess-taylor-and-kimberly-grey
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Check in begins at 2pm, Reading from 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Flight of Poets @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery
Wine and poetry have always made a delicious duet. At this special Sonoma edition of Flight of Poets, happening in the Picnic Arbor at the gorgeous Gunlach Bundschu Winery, internationally renowned sommelier Christopher Sawyer pairs four talented poets with four exquisite wines, carefully selected to illuminate their work. Readings by: Hollie Hardy, Ada Limón, Dean Rader, and Tess Taylor
GUNDLACH BUNDSCHU WINERY
Picnic Arbor
2000 Denmark St, Sonoma, CA
(707) 938-5277
$20 entry fee includes a flight of four tastes. Must be 21+.
TICKETS Available Now from Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flight-of-poets-at-gun-bun-tickets-24638066119
Don't wait! Flight of Poets always sells out!
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
4:30-6:30 p.m.
Washington College's 2016 Summer Poetry Salon Series
A performance by a local musician or band will start off the evening, followed by a reading by Tess Taylor, refreshments, and a book signing.
Washington College
300 Washington Avenue, Chestertown, MD 21620
For more information, visit http://www.washcoll.edu/centers/lithouse/programs/summer-poetry-salons.php
Saturday, June 4, 2016
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Bay Area Book Festival: Sun, Soil, Water, Food: How Climate Change Impacts What We Grow and Eat featuring Anna Lappé, Mark Schapiro, and Tess Taylor, moderated by Ann Thrupp
Farmers conjure food out of three ingredients—sun, soil, and water—all three of which are being altered profoundly by climate change. Scientists say conditions are shifting so dramatically that we can no longer look to the past as a reliable predictor of the future. Writing in a variety of genres, these authors address the ways in which our farms can evolve and survive in these new circumstances.
For more information, visit http://www.baybookfest.org/
To get tickets, visit http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bay-area-book-festival-june-4-5-2016-tickets-24440065895?ref=ebtnebtckt
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Salon at Gabriella Cafe with Ellen Bass and Tess Taylor
Join us at Gabriella Cafe for dinner and a salon style discussion with poets Ellen Bass and Tess Taylor. We will begin the evening with dinner starting at 6:00pm, followed at 7:30pm by a short talk and salon style Q&A. Guests may order dinner from the Gabriella Cafe menu's selection of wonderful farm to table cuisine. Reservations with the restaurant are required. To reserve please phone Gabriella Cafe at 831 457-1677.
Gabriella Cafe
910 Cedar Street, Santa Cruz CA 95060
For more information, visit http://catamaranliteraryreader.com/news-and-events-2016/
Thursday, June 16, 2016
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Quiet Lightning/ArtSpan present an ekphrastic show/artist social curated by Tess Taylor and featuring poets Dean Rader, Brynn Saito, Katie Peterson, and Keith Ekiss
Modern Eden Gallery
801 Greenwich St, San Francisco, CA 94133
More details here.
RSVP for this free event here.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
6:30 p.m.
Poetry Reading at a historic site with Kim Dower, Liz Kay, Seema Reza, Tess Taylor and William Trowbridge
Annenberg Community Beach House
415 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica, CA 90402
More details here.
RSVP for this free event here.
2015 EVENTS
Friday, February 20
7:30 p.m.
T. Geronimo Johnson in conversation with Tess Taylor
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
http://www.keplers.com/events2
https://www.facebook.com/events/825658847498341/
Friday, March 27
Time TBD
Tess Taylor reads from Work + Days, followed by poetry talk
CSU Chico
More details to come!
Wednesday, April 8
5:00 p.m.
Poetry reading with John Hoppenthaler followed by Q&A
Lind Hall
University of Minnesota
207 Church St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Friday, April 10
12:00-1:15 p.m.
AWP Session F193
Inscriptions for Air: Race, Identity, and Relation:
In memory of Jake Adam York, and in the spirit of witness, this panel continues a longstanding conversation concerning race and relation. In his posthumously published book, York paraphrases poet Edouard Glissant's idea: in relation, self and other approach each other as equals, as citizens of a moment in which time and place may be reframed. Panelists will include the audience in a discussion about relation, history's record, and striving for social and self-awareness in poetry and beyond. Featuring: Wesley Rothman, Tess Taylor, Martha Collins, Sean Hill, Jon Tribble
Room L100 F&G, Lower Level
Minneapolis Convention Center
1301 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Saturday, April 11
9:00-10:15 a.m.
AWP Session S125
The Politics of Empathy: Writing Through Borrowed Eyes
When writers create characters nothing like themselves, it can inspire empathy. But authors often wrestle with their right to borrow another identity or feel confined to writing only about their own race, gender, or community. Asian Americans rarely get away with white protagonists; straight male authors shy away from gay characters. This diverse panel will consider what's at stake when you cross the identity line, whether white writers are guilty of appropriation, and other touchy topics. Featuring: Lorraine Berry, Matthew Salesses, Prageeta Sharma, Tess Taylor, Aimee Phan
Room M100 F&G, Mezzanine Level
Minneapolis Convention Center
1301 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Tuesday, April 14
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Whittier College Writers Festival and Mini-Conference
Whittier Faculty Readings: Featuring Tony Barnstone, Jennifer Holmes, Tess Taylor, Kate Durbin, Scott Creley
Wardman Library
Whittier College
7031 Founders Hill Road
Whittier, CA 90602
http://www.shannoncenter.org/WhittierWritersFestival.html
Thursday, April 16
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Whittier College Writers Festival and Mini-Conference
Panel: The Ethics of Documentary Poetics, featuring: Cynthia Hogue, Geoffrey Brock, Tony Barnstone, Tess Taylor, and moderator Natale Zappia
Wardman Library
Whittier College
7031 Founders Hill Road
Whittier, CA 90602
http://www.shannoncenter.org/WhittierWritersFestival.html
Sunday, April 19
1:30 p.m.
LA Times Festival of Books
Poetry Reading with Tess Taylor and Robert Polito followed by signing
Poetry Stage
USC Campus
University of Southern California
University Park Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90089
http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/
June 6, 2015
1:00-1:50 p.m.
Poetry from There and Here: Panel discussion and short readings (featuring Tess Taylor, Fabiano Alborghetti, John W. Evans, and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra)
Bay Area Book Festival
Magnes Museum
2121 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Doors at 6:30, reading at 7:00pm
Flight of Poets (part of Litquake)
Wine and poetry have always made a delicious duet. At this reading, curated by Hollie Hardy and Tess Taylor, internationally renowned sommelier Christopher Sawyer pairs six talented poets--Tony Barnstone, Ellen Bass, Annelyse Gelman, Maisha Z. Johnson, Deborah Landau, and Indigo Moorwith-- with six exquisite wines carefully selected to illuminate their work. This event always sells out, so grab your tickets now.
Hotel Rex
562 Sutter St.
San Francisco, CA
For tickets/more information:
http://www.litquake.org/events/flight-poets-0
Tuesday, November 3
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Relatives and Strangers: America in Black and White
Reading and Discussion at Poplar Forest
Join Tess Taylor and Gayle Jessup White at Thomas Jefferson’s private retreat and tobacco plantation, where they will reflect upon their interconnected pasts. Ms. Taylor will read from her work of poetry, The Forage House, her meditation on her relationship with her ancestors and with the American past. A reception will follow. Poplar Forest will offer its Enslaved Community tour prior to the event. Reservations required for this event.
Poplar Forest
1542 Bateman Bridge Road
Forest, VA 24551-0419
For tickets/more information:
http://www.poplarforest.org/event/relatives-and-strangers-america-in-black-and-white/#.VfidZntsDxZ
Wednesday, November 4
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Relatives and Strangers: America in Black and White
Discussion at Randolph College
History professor John d’Entremont moderates a discussion with writer-educators Gayle Jessup White and Tess Taylor, on Americans’ shared but divided racial past, the shadow it casts on the present, and the prospects for a future of reconciliation and peace. Cousins White and Taylor will share their personal stories, and invite comments and insights from the audience. Dessert reception to follow.
Wimberly Recital Hall, Presser Hall
Randolph College
2500 Rivermont Avenue
Lynchburg, VA 24503
This event is free and open to the public.
http://www.randolphcollege.edu/calendar/
Saturday, November 7
9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Using the Artifact: Teen Writing Workshop with Tess Taylor
Tess will lead teen writers in a workshop about engaging artifacts, archaeology, and history in crafting poems. The morning will start with a look at model poems built around historic artifacts (including poems by Natasha Trethewey, Kevin Young, and Rachel Richardson), and then will give participants a chance for a private tour and reflective time in the Monroe house during the hours before Ash Lawn-Highland opens, so each writer can contemplate their own history poem. The morning will conclude with a writing workshop using artifacts from Ash Lawn-Highland’s collections as inspiration, subject, or starting point. The workshop will be followed by lunch, a brief reading by Tess, and a question and answer session.
Ash Lawn-Highland
2050 James Monroe Parkway
Charlottesville, VA 22902
(434) 293-8000
For more information: http://ashlawnhighland.org/event/using-the-artifact-writing-workshop-with-tess-taylor/
Sunday, November 8
10:10-11:10 a.m.
Spiritual Formation Hour featuring Tess Taylor
Episcopalian and poet Tess Taylor will be at St. Paul’s during the spiritual formation hour at 10:10 a.m.
St. Pauls Episcopal
815 East Grace St.
Richmond, VA 23219
http://www.stpaulsrva.org/learn/adult-formation/
Friday, November 13
6:00-8:00 p.m.
The Habit of Work: Writing Every Day (series of four classes)
On November 13, Tess Taylor will be the guest writer.
Join Justine Kenin, a producer of NPR's All Things Considered, and guest writers and editors in a series of casual conversations to get right with your writing habits. We'll meet every three weeks through the fall to figure out what's getting in your way and how to create room in your day-to-day life for writing. That way you can go off and write and come back, and by the end, with effort and luck, you’ll be able to see real change in your writing habits.
Politics and Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
(202) 364-1919
For more information: http://www.politics-prose.com/class/habit-of-work-1573
Sunday, December 6
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Ravenswood Poetry Series
Poetry in a beautiful, historic setting.
Readings by Tess Taylor and Kate Buckley, followed by open mic.
Ravenswood Historical Site
2647 Arroyo Road
Livermore, CA 94550
2014 EVENTS
Sunday, September 21, 2014
10:00 a.m.
Sunday Morning Adult Forum: Discussion on poetry, family, and beloved community with Gayle Jessup White
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
815 East Grace St
Richmond, VA 23219
http://www.stpaulsrva.org/download_file/view/231/
Monday, September 22, 2014
12 Noon-1:00 p.m.
Book Talk and Signing: A 45-minute presentation that blends readings with a discussion of how Tess Taylor’s research informed and shaped the poems appearing The Forage House. This free book talk does not require registration. To sign up for an optional catered buffet lunch available for $12, visit www.tesstaylortalk.eventbrite.com.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
815 East Grace St
Richmond, VA 23219
http://www.lva.virginia.gov/news/calendar.asp
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Poetry Talk and Q&A
Wilkinson Chapel (Fish Interfaith Center)
Chapman University
One University Drive
Orange, CA 92866
http://www.chapman.edu/research-and-institutions/tabula-poetica/reading-series/
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Poetry Reading, Q&A, and Signing
Henley Room (Leatherby Libraries)
Chapman University
One University Drive
Orange, CA 92866
http://www.chapman.edu/research-and-institutions/tabula-poetica/reading-series/
Thursday, October 2, 2014
7:00 p.m.
99 Poems for the 99 Percent: an anthology of poetry Release Party and Contributors’ Poetry Reading: Featuring Dean Rader, editor, and poets Heather Altfeld, Maxine Chernoff, Troy Jollimore, Tess Taylor, and Matthew Zapruder.
Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary & Garden Arts
2904 College Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
Saturday, October 25, 2014
7:30 p.m.
Poetry Reading at the Fun Party Reading Series
Brew & Brew
500 San Marcos St
Austin, TX 78702
http://funpartyatx.tumblr.com/
Saturday, November 1, 2014
12 Noon-4:00 p.m.
Presentation at the Ina Coolbrith Circle Banquet
Zio Fraedo's Restaurant
611 Gregory Lane
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
2013 AND PRIOR EVENTS