Spring Creek Project Presents: A reading with poet Tess Taylor
Join us for a special evening with poet Tess Taylor as she reads select works from her five celebrated collections.
Tess’s work deals with place, ecology, memory, and cultural reckoning. Her poetry collections include "The Misremembered World," "The Forage House," "Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange," and "Rift Zone," one of the Boston Globe’s best books of 2020. Her book "Work & Days" was one of the New York Times' best poetry books of 2016. In the fall of 2023, she published the anthology "Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them," a collection of contemporary gardening poems for an era of climate change.
From 2024 to 2025, Tess will serve as an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow in her role as Poet Laureate of El Cerrito, California. A former Distinguished U.S. Fulbright Teaching Fellow to the UK, she has received awards from MacDowell, Headlands Center for the Arts, and other venues. She has taught at UC Berkeley, Whittier College, Boston University, and Simon’s Rock. The host of Season Two of "Intimate Addresses, a Getty Museum Podcast, she now teaches privately and on the faculty of Ashland University’s low-residency MFA creative writing program. She gardens and raises chickens in El Cerrito, California.
Grass Roots Books will have copies of Tess's titles available at the event. Book signing to follow presentation.
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