past events

MARCH 15, 2025 | EL CERRITO COMMUNITY CENTER, GARDEN ROOM (7007 Moeser Lane)
PUBLIC, 4:30—6:00PM
Intergenerational  Poetry Workshop with Tongo Eisen-Martin

MARCH 15, 2025 | EL CERRITO COMMUNITY CENTER, GARDEN ROOM (7007 Moeser Lane)
PUBLIC, 6:30—8:00PM
Bay Area All-Star Reading with Maw Shein Win, Bob Hass, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and Brenda Hillman

february 8, 2025 | EL CERRITO COMMUNITY CENTER, GARDEN ROOM (7007 Moeser Lane)
PUBLIC, 4:30—6:00PM
Place and Placemaking in Poetry and Photography
a conversation with Ishmael Reed and Lewis Watts about writing and imagining El Cerrito/Richmond in art

OCTOBER 29–DECEMBER 17, 2024
SUBMISSIONS BOOTCAMP WORKSHOP

NOVember 21, 2024 | online
6:30PM EST/3:30PM PST
EMILY DICKINSON MUSEUM

DWELLING IN POSSIBILITY: THE PLEASURABLE PATH OF WHAT IF POEMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2024 | EL CERRITO, CA (HARDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, 7230 Fairmount Avenue)
5:30—7:00PM
BAY AREA VOICES

a conversation about novels, the poems, and writing for young adults with Shanthi SekAran and Vanessa Hua

NOVEMBER 8, 2024 |SAN FRANCISCO, CA (CAFE DU NORD)
7:30PM
2024 San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival

Passing Through: An evening of poems and music inspired by, loved by, and left behind by Leonard Cohen

OCTOBER 21, 2024 | EL CERRITO, CA (hANA GARDENS)
7:00—8:30PM
DROP-IN Community Poetry Circle w/ El Cerrito Poet Laureate Tess Taylor

Bring a poem of someone else’s you admire to read and one of your own if you’d like.

october 10 & 12, 2024 | corvalis, or
SHOTPOUCH CABIN WORKSHOP & READING

  • OCTOBER 10 PRAx READING

  • OCTOBER 12 SHOTPOUCH WRITING WORKSHOP @ CABIN

LEARN MORE HERE

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024 | Online
7:30PM EST/4:30 PM PST
"TELL IT SLANT" POETRY FESTIVAL 2024 September 23-29, EMILY DICKINSON MUSEUM

"BEE! I'M EXPECTING YOU": DIALOGUES WITH THE NON-HUMAN, FEATURING TESS TAYLOR, CAROLINE EBEID, AND JULIA GUEZ

Register here

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 | ROCKPORT, ME
7:30PM
TENDERWILD FARM (33 GURNEY STREET)

READING WITH LOCAL WRITER MARGOT KELLY

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024 | Rockport, ME
7:00PM
Maine Media Workshop

Reading with Julia Bouwsma

PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE

SEPTEMBER 16–20, 2024 | Rockport, ME
Maine Media Workshop

Tess Taylor will teach a weeklong workshop: Stand in the Place Where You Live: Writing at the Crossroads

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2024 | EL CERRITO, CA
10:30AM—12:00PM
EL CERRITO PUBLIC LIBRARY (6510 STOCKTON AVENUE)

75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION -- TESS TAYLOR DAY! El Cerrito Author Series

Learn more here

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 | CINCINNATI, OH
6:00—8:00PM
Church of the advent

Joyful Noise: An Evening of Poems and Songs with Tess Taylor and Friends: Reading and Community Meal with Creation Justice Land Ministry

register here

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 | CINCINNATI, OH
10:00AM—3:30PM
XAVIER UNIVERSITY

POETRY WORKSHOP ON GRIEF ECOLOGY

REGISTER HERE

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024 | CINCINNATI, OH
6:30—8:00PM
CINCINNATI CIVIC GARDEN CENTER (2715 READING ROAD)

KEYNOTE: TESS TAYLOR ON "WHY GARDENING MATTERS" AND POETRY READING. Following the talk, Tess will sign copies of her books

Register here

AUGUST 6–SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
private poetry workshop

REQUEST DETAILS HERE

AUGUST 24, 2024 | WASHINGTON DC
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL, WASHINGTON CONVENTION CENTER

TESS TAYLOR, REUBEN QUESADA, FORREST GANDER AND AIMEE NEZHUKMATATHIL WILL SHARE POETRY FROM LEANING TOWARD LIGHT

MAY 29, 2024 | online
7:00—8:30PM
THE POETS CORNER

Tess Taylor, reading along with poets: David Baker, Sophie Cabot Black, Mark Doty, Kirun Kapur, Danusha Laméris, and Gary Lawless (reading Nanao Sakaki)

MAY 28, 2024 | BERKELEY, CA
7:30PM
PEGASUS ON SOLANO

Near-Earth Object by John Shoptaw Book Launch Reading

MAY 20, 2024 | JACKSON HOLE, WY
5:30PM
ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

SACRED EARTH CONVERSATIONS Welcomes Tess Taylor for an intimate conversation exploring eco-philosophical, eco-poetic, and eco-theological questions of theory and practice with respect to how we relate with the more-than-human-world

MAY 19, 2024 | JACKSON HOLE, WY
6:00PM
St. John's Episcopal Church

CAMPFIRE Featuring Tess Taylor: A multimedia, interactive story-telling event incorporating heart-forward conversation and readings from LEANING TOWARD LIGHT, Hosted in a ritually-inflected format

MAY 15, 2024 | Minneapolis, MN
7:00—8:00pm CDT
Milkweed Books, Open Book Literary Center

Join Tess Taylor for a reading from her new book Leaning Toward Light. Tess will be joined in conversation by local author Beth Dooley, where they'll discuss building community, sustainability, and cultivating richness at the intersection of food, plants, and literature. There will be time for audience questions and a book signing.

Enjoy a social hour in our brick-and-mortar indie bookstore Milkweed Books beginning at 6 PM, followed by the reading and conversation beginning at 7 pM

RSVP HERE

MAY 11, 2024 | Bolinas, California
2:00PM
Bolinas MUSEUM

Hannah Yerington, TESS TAYLOR, and Emeline during  "Even Still" by Janis Yerington, a still-life exhibit on prayer and local produce

April 28, 2024 | Berkeley, CA
2:00–4:30pm
Family Friendly Earth day poetry festival, Poetry Library and Deck Black Pine Circle School

APRIL 25, 2024 | CANYON, tx
6:00PM
Burrowing Owl Bookstore

POETRY READING

APRIL 25, 2024 | Amarillo, tx
12:00PM
DOWNTOWN LIBRARY

brown bag reading with Tess Taylor

APRIL 23, 2024 | austin, tx
5:00—8:00PM
Tuesday Twilight at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Renowned poets Tess Taylor and Naomi Shihab Nye will read from the acclaimed anthology “Leaning Toward the Light“, Poems for Gardens and the Hands That Tend Them. Readings will take place from 6 – 7 p.m. in the Courtyard.

register here

APRIL 21, 2024 | LOS ANGELES, CA
11:00–11:20AM
Los Angeles Times Festival of the Book, USC
Poetry Stage - Signing Area 2

Tess Taylor and Victoria Chang, reading from 'Leaning Toward the Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them

APRIL 10, 2024 | MADISON, NJ
7:00PM
Museum of Early Trades & Crafts Education Annex

A Celebration Of Nature Poetry And Native Plants, Featuring readings from Leaning Toward Light with Tess Taylor and other poets. Also featuring Ann E. Wallace, Co-Host of The WildStory and Poet Laureate of Jersey City, and Dr. Randi Eckel of The WildStory’s Ask Randi

APRIL 8, 2024 | NYC, NY
kgb reading room
MORE INFO COMING

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

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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.

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.

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

Poetry Night Reading Series.

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

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.

Details and registration here

APRIL 14 - 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.

Details and registration here

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

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

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/
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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
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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
For more information and for bookings...

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
For more information...

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
More info...

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
For more information...

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
For more information...

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
For more information...

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
For more information...

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
For more info...

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
For more info...

Thursday, October 13, 2016
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Litquake Presents Flight of Poets
For more information...

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
For more information... 

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
For more information...

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
For more information...

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
For more information...  

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
For more information...

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
For more information...

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
For more information... 

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
For more information... 

Friday, March 11, 2016
5:00 p.m.
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House (58 West 10th Street, New York, NY 10003)
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. For more information, visit http://cwp.as.nyu.edu/page/readingseries

Saturday, March 12, 2016
5:30 p.m.
The Bookstore (11 Housatonic Street, Lenox, MA 01240)
Reading by Tess Taylor, Valzhyna Mort, and Melissa Dickey. For more information, visit http://bookstoreinlenox.com/

Sunday, March 13, 2016
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Eastover Estate & Retreat Center (430 East Street, Lenox, MA 01240)
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. For more information, visit http://berkshirewomenwriters.org/event/the-sixth-annual-berkshire-festival-of-women-writers-at-eastover-estate-retreat/

Saturday, March 19, 2016
4:00 p.m.
Poets House (10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282)
Poetry Reading with Tess Taylor and Jennifer Grotz, moderated by Jason Schneiderman. 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.
L.A. Convention Center, Meeting Room Level (1201 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90015)
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 For more information, visit https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/6107

Thursday, March 31, 2016
4:30-5:45 p.m.
L.A. Convention Center, Meeting Room Level (1201 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90015)
AWP Panel: R292. The Many Voices of Poetry; Moderated by Wendy Martin, featuring Don Share, Tess Taylor, Atsuro Riley, and Brandon Som. For more information, visit https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/6003

Friday, April 1, 2016
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Velaslavasay Panorama (1122 West 24th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007)
Red Hen/The Los Angeles Review Reading
Poetry reading by Tess Taylor and other Red Hen authors, to be followed by reception. For more information, visit http://www.panoramaonview.org/index.html

Saturday, April 9, 2016
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Flowerland (1330 Solano Ave, Albany, CA 94706)
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.

Sunday, April 10, 2016
11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
University of Southern California (University Park Campus, Los Angeles, CA 90089)
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
For more information, visit http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/

Tuesday, April 12, 2016
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Albany Library (Edith Stone Room, 1247 Marin Ave, Albany, CA 94706)
Poetry at the Albany Library
Poetry reading by Tess Taylor and Christina Hutchins. 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

http://www.gunbun.com/

$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.

past events 2015

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

https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Rothman&

 

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

https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=2015-04-11&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Prageeta&

 

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

http://www.baybookfest.org/

 

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/

To register: http://twc.tupelopressva.org/product/exploring-history-using-the-artifact-a-reading-conversation-and-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

PAST EVENTS 2014

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/

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

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

http://www.mrsdalloways.com

 

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

http://www.coolpoetry.org

PAST EVENTS 2012 AND PRIOR

August 20, 2012
On NPR's All Things Considered TONIGHT!

I'm on NPR's All Things Considered tonight! I'm this month's News Poet which means I will be writing a poem about today's news... on deadline. I'm the last segment in the show (since I'm writing about all of the day's news) so stay tuned through the whole thing to listen. Also, I'm liveblogging my day via my Twitter handle @tessathon. For Twitter-phobes, you can just click on that link to see what I'm saying or go on over to my contact page where I have a live Twitter feed running. 

UPDATE: The poem is live: http://www.npr.org/2012/08/20/159349948/newspoet-tess-taylor-writes-the-day-in-verse

September 7, 2012
On NPR's All Things Considered Tonight (Again)
This time, reviewing Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds. Listen in. Also, check out my review of Gravity's Engines by Caleb Scharf here. 

January 31, 2011
TALKING BIRDS AND BARDS
A wonderful chance to talk about Amy Clampitt's poem The Hermit Thrush with the Poetry Foundation. Listen!  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/audioitem.html?id=2562

August 24, 2010
BRYANT PARK READING WITH SEAN HILL, ROSANNA WARREN AND JILL MCDONOUGH
What a treat to read outside the New York Public Library with these other wonderful poets. The theme is lyric history-- and I hope to see you there! http://www.bryantpark.org/plan-your-visit/wordforword.html

July 25, 2010
Berkshire WordFest
Reading at Berkshire Wordfest with the lovely Hannah Fries and other Berkshire poets at The Mount- Edith Wharton's home, July 25, 3pm. Details here: http://berkshirewordfest.org/attend/speakers

April 22, 2010
Tess's Column Launches in The Barnes & Noble Review
See the first entry in Tess's new column Stanza in The Barnes & Noble Review

February 1, 2010
Tess is the 2010 Amy Clampitt Resident
You'll find Tess up in Lenox Massachusetts this year as the Amy Clampitt Resident. More info on the Amy Clampitt website.

October 24, 2008
Libretto for Prodigal Songs
Robinson McClellan is the composer of, and Trio Eos the performers of Prodigal Songs, for which Tess wrote the libretto. There is a link to the music here.

June 1, 2008
Tess Taylor's Poetry Society Profile
Tess on the PSA website

April 1, 2007
Headlands Artist In Residence
Tess is a 2007 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts

June 1, 2006
American Antiquarian Society
Tess is a William Randolf Hearst Fellow this year at the American Antiquarian Society