Tess Taylor

Tess Taylor appears in the following:

Poetry's Not Dead, And Here Are Books To Help Appreciate It

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Our poetry reviewer, Tess Taylor, received a stack of books over the course of this year to help encourage reading poetry. She began reading skeptically, but grew to love two of them: Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder and A Little Book on Form by Robert Hass.

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Randall Mann's 'Proprietary' Reinvents Classic San Francisco Poetry

Wednesday, July 05, 2017

Our poetry reviewer Tess Taylor looks at Randall Mann's new collection, Proprietary, which looks at the changes in San Francisco.

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Seamus Heaney Poems Come To Life In Belfast, Ireland

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Poetry reviewer Tess Taylor has just spent the past semester teaching in Belfast, Ireland. She talks about how Seamus Heaney poems and visions of home swirled in her head.

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Book Review: 'Garden Time,' W.S. Merwin

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Our poetry reviewer, Tess Taylor, praises the most recent collection by W.S. Merwin called, Garden Time.

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'Blackacre': A Collection Of Poems About 'Searching And Being Buffeted'

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Tess Taylor reviews the poetry collection Blackacre by Monica Youn.

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Asking Questions Year By Year With 'Poems For The Twentieth Century'

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

What does it mean to exist in time or make art for the moment? In XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, Campbell McGrath explores this question with a poem for every year between 1900 and 2000.

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Book Review: 'The News,' By Tess Taylor

Friday, October 02, 2015

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

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Book Review: 'Lunch Poems' Reissue

Monday, November 24, 2014

In honor of the 50th anniversary of "Lunch Poems" by Frank O'Hara, City Lights Books has reissued an expanded version of the collection.

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Book Review: 'Citizen: An American Lyric'

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Poet Tess Taylor reviews "Citizen: An American Lyric" by Claudia Rankine. It's been nominated for a National Book Award.

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Book Review: 'Once In The West'

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Tess Taylor reviews Christian Wiman's new collection of poems, "Once in the West."

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David Tomas Martinez Turns Hustle In The Street To Poetry On The Page

Thursday, July 03, 2014

Before writing the poems that make up Hustle, Martinez was hustling for a long time. His work dips into his teenage years running with a gang, his enlistment in the Navy, and his turn to poetry.

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Book Review: 'I Am The Beggar Of The World'

Friday, May 30, 2014

Poet Tess Taylor reviews I Am the Beggar of the World, a new poetry collection that offers a rare glimpse into Afghan lives.

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Book Review: 'Abide'

Monday, May 19, 2014

Poet Tess Taylor reviews the posthomously published poetry collection Abide, by Jake Adam York.

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Finding Family Through a Dark Legacy of Slavery

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Tess Taylor and Gayle Jessup White were living separate lives on separate sides of the country, when the two women discovered they were related through the Thomas Jefferson family line.

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Book Review: 'How To Dance As The Roof Caves In'

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Poet Tess Taylor reviews Nick Lantz's third poetry collection, How to Dance As The Roof Caves In.

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