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Tess Taylor

Tess Taylor
Tess Taylor, an avid gardener, is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry including Work & Days, which was named one of the ten best books of poetry of 2016 by the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Times Literary Supplement, CNN, and the New York Times. Taylor has been Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Queen’s University in Northern Ireland, and the Anne Spencer Poet-in-Residence at Randolph College. She has also served as on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered for over a decade. Taylor lives in El Cerrito, California, where she tends to fruit trees and backyard chickens.


The Real-Life Poetry of Gardening

Tess Taylor on the Ancient Genre of Garden Poems and the Connective Power of Working with Plants
August 29, 2023  By Tess Taylor
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“February, Rain”

A Poem by Tess Taylor
April 8, 2020  By Tess Taylor
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30 Books in 30 Days: House of Lords and Commons

Tess Taylor on Ishion Hutchinson's Poetry Collection
February 15, 2017  By Tess Taylor
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DRONES & POPPIES

Three New Poems by Tess Taylor
April 13, 2016  By Tess Taylor
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30 Books in 30 Days: Tess Taylor on Leo Damrosch’s Eternity’s Sunrise

COUNTING DOWN THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS FINALISTS
February 26, 2016  By Tess Taylor
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30 Books in 30 Days: Tess Taylor on Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

COUNTING DOWN THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS FINALISTS
February 22, 2016  By Tess Taylor
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