The Yale Review features “Song with Day Glo & Jello”
Date: June 2, 2020
Hulky & afloat on seas of parkingthe old Plaza dated from the fifties— sold Day Glo Ice & jelly […]
Date: June 2, 2020
Hulky & afloat on seas of parkingthe old Plaza dated from the fifties— sold Day Glo Ice & jelly […]
Date: June 2, 2020
Library Journal features Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone and Felicia Zamora’s Body of Render.
Date: June 2, 2020
Shortly before the state of California ordered its citizens to retreat indoors, I met up with poet Tess Taylor for a hike on a steep hill near her home. It was one […]
Date: June 2, 2020
EL CERRITO — Local poet Tess Taylor has recently released her fourth book, had one of its poems published in the New York Times and wrote an opinion piece for […]
Date: June 2, 2020
In a series, various writers share what have they been reading while sheltering in place. Today, NPR poetry reviewer Tess Taylor lists what is helping her to get through.
Date: June 2, 2020
Poem: I Gave My Love a Story Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye
Date: June 2, 2020
Here is the strange thing: I was already writing poems about the precariousness of California. I’d been writing them for ten years, since I moved back from New York and came […]
Date: June 1, 2020
NYU’s The Latinx Project features two Red Hen titles: After Rubén by Francisco Aragón and Body of Render by Felicia Zamora!
Date: May 29, 2020
Tess Taylor’s poetry is a literary collage: an assemblage of the poet’s words and the ontology of California itself. In two collections out this year, Rift Zone and Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea […]
Date: May 29, 2020
Still, digital events aren’t for everyone. Poet Tess Taylor is publishing two collections this spring, Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange, commissioned by New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and Rift Zone, […]
Date: September 12, 2013
In the most recent issue of Glint Literary Journal Brenda Mann Hammack lauds Nicelle Davis' Becoming Judas.- "Davis’ book does not wallow in masochism or confessionalism. Instead, Becoming Judas comes […]
Date: September 6, 2013
The Baton Rouge Advocate's Andrew Burstein comments on the southern ancestry in the poems of Tess Taylor's The Forage House.- "Taylor intuits history through her engagement with pieces and particles […]
Date: September 6, 2013
Theresé Samson Wenham from NewPages commends Ernest Hilbert on his "honesty of character" and the "resonance of his language" in the poems of All of You on the Good Earth.- […]
Date: September 6, 2013
Julia Ann Charpentier from ForeWord Reviews is impressed with John Van Kirk's Song for Chance.- "Van Kirk depicts the world of an aging rock star by alternating between soft reminiscence […]
Date: August 30, 2013
Carmela Ciuraru from the San Francisco Chronicle calls Tess Taylor's The Forage House a "stunning debut collection."- "The most fascinating biographical fact about Taylor is not that she can trace […]
Date: August 30, 2013
Marguerite Nguyen applauds the way Andrew Lam "undertakes the tricky task of interweaving a journalistic eye for detail with imagined dialogues and psychic journeys" in her review of Birds of […]
Date: August 30, 2013
Anne Yale from Voice in the Wilderness admits that she "could not put down" Nicelle Davis' Becoming Judas.- "A fascinating foray into iconographic studies, Becoming Judas examines, interprets, questions, challenges, […]
Date: August 21, 2013
Camille Guillot from Oxford American praises the "curated mood of a small museum" present in Tess Taylor's The Forage House.- "Every so often there is a book of poetry that […]
Date: August 21, 2013
Anna Challet from Tikkun discusses the stories of Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- "…each story is a world unto itself. Lam’s characters are haunted by what they have lost, […]
Date: August 21, 2013
Sandy Longhorn from Atticus Review praises the language and layers of meaning found in the poems of Carolyn Guinzio's Spoke & Dark.– "Spoke & Dark requires much of the reader, […]