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Hi, I'm Tess Taylor—poet, playwright, podcast host, and garden enthusiast. Check out my new play Last West, premiering Fall 2025!
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Buy Tickets! Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange
Buy Tickets! Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange
Order Leaning Toward Light, Poems for Gardens, and the Hands that Tend Them
Order Leaning Toward Light, Poems for Gardens, and the Hands that Tend Them
This beautiful poetry anthology offers a warm, inviting selection of poems from a wide range of voices that speak to the collective urge to grow, tend, and h...
Read AX25: Bitters — Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation
Read AX25: Bitters — Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation
"Green Tomatoes in Fire Season" on poets.org
"Green Tomatoes in Fire Season" on poets.org
El Cerrito Poet Laureate 2024-2025
The Academy of American Poets Awards $1.1 Million to Twenty-two Poets Laureate
The Academy of American Poets Awards $1.1 Million to Twenty-two Poets Laureate
New York, NY (August 6, 2024)—The Academy of American P
In Rising Voices of El Cerrito’s Young Poets, a Message About Resilience | KQED
In Rising Voices of El Cerrito’s Young Poets, a Message About Resilience | KQED
Donate to Donate to El Cerrito Poet Laureate Legacy Fund, organized by Taylor Schreiner
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Donate to Donate to El Cerrito Poet Laureate Legacy Fund, organized by Taylor Schreiner
The El Cerrito Poet Laureate Legacy Fund supports poetry programs in t… Taylor Schreiner needs your support for Donate to El Cerrito Poet Laureate Legacy Fund
Gardening in the Public Flowerfest: On Poetry and Civic Repair
Gardening in the Public Flowerfest: On Poetry and Civic Repair
Upcoming Events:
Poetry in the Garden-The Edible Schoolyard
Poetry in the Garden-The Edible Schoolyard
Intimate Addresses Podcast (Getty)
The SlowDown Show: [encore] 393: "Song In Which We Yet Sidestep Disaster"
The SlowDown Show: [encore] 393: "Song In Which We Yet Sidestep Disaster"
Recording Artists (A podcast from the Getty)
Recording Artists (A podcast from the Getty)
What can happen when you introduce scientists to art and artists to science? Artists and engineers discover the creative potential of new technologies.
Intimate Addresses-Article
Intimate Addresses-Article
In a new podcast, old letters let us peek into artists’ private lives
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Trailer
Articles, Interviews & Podcasts
Poetic Explorations: Cultivating Awareness in the Garden of the Senses, Online 2/1
Poetic Explorations: Cultivating Awareness in the Garden of the Senses, Online 2/1
The Zoom link to participate in this event will be provided at least 24 hours before it begins. Please call 415-354-0360 if you have any questions.What can we learn from being fully present in every moment with all our senses? How can we cultivate awareness? And how might poetry and our relationship with gardens help us in cultivating presence? In this workshop, we will turn our attention to the nonhuman world: the soil, the earthworm, the fava bean.We will ask ourselves how to "dialogue with." For example: How might awareness of the lifeforms around us change us? How does both Zen practice, and a practice in poetry, help us explore this awareness fully?We will listen to a Dharma talk about waking our senses, and then use the art of writing poems to drop into ourselves and write our way into the greater ecosystem.Both the workshop and the reading are open to all writers (and the curious). We invite you to come to both for an immersive and expansive time.
How Poetry Serves Civic Life | KQED
How Poetry Serves Civic Life | KQED
We talk with poets about why we need poetry now and how the artform serves civic life.
Match the Taylor Swift Song to the Poem Inspired By Her Music
Match the Taylor Swift Song to the Poem Inspired By Her Music
Famous poets (tortured or not) have taken inspiration from Swift's music. Can you match the poem to the song?
Non-profits Under Threat!
Non-profits Under Threat!
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to approve the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act," and several changes to the bill are expected. This provides the nonprofit sector with an opportunity to urge Senate leaders to remove several harmful provisions.
These Bay Area poets just received $50,000. Here’s what they hope to do with it
These Bay Area poets just received $50,000. Here’s what they hope to do with it
The Poet Speaks Podcast
Podcast
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Podcast
The Poet Speaks Podcast
Podcast Episode · The Poet Speaks Podcast · October 6, 2024 · 43m
Opinion: Joy is more than a feeling. Listen to what it’s telling you | CNN
Opinion: Joy is more than a feeling. Listen to what it’s telling you | CNN
AFAR Podcasts
AFAR Podcasts
CNN: Opinion: Five keys to unlocking a creative, restful life
CNN: Opinion: Five keys to unlocking a creative, restful life
Opinion: The magic art of changing your mind | CNN
Opinion: The magic art of changing your mind | CNN
Opinion: Why gardens and poems rhyme | CNN
Opinion: Why gardens and poems rhyme | CNN
Opinion: 17 syllables a day that are changing your lives | CNN
Opinion: 17 syllables a day that are changing your lives | CNN
Leaning Toward Light Press/Articles
Orion Magazine - 10 New(ish) Book Recommendations for Spring 2024
Orion Magazine - 10 New(ish) Book Recommendations for Spring 2024
Favorite Books of 2023
Favorite Books of 2023
Leaning Toward Light: 2 Things that can help us Rediscover the World. | elephant journal
Leaning Toward Light: 2 Things that can help us Rediscover the World. | elephant journal
Bound Together 2023
Bound Together 2023
Poems for the Gardener and the Cook | Edible East Bay
Poems for the Gardener and the Cook | Edible East Bay
Leaning Toward Light: A Posy of Poems Celebrating the Joys and Consolations of the Garden
Leaning Toward Light: A Posy of Poems Celebrating the Joys and Consolations of the Garden
‘Green thoughts’ for your Labor Day weekend | CNN
‘Green thoughts’ for your Labor Day weekend | CNN
The Real-Life Poetry of Gardening
The Real-Life Poetry of Gardening
Santa Cruz Sentinel Poets dig into gardening themes in new anthology
Santa Cruz Sentinel Poets dig into gardening themes in new anthology
The Boston Globe: A celebration of gardening in new poetry anthology; new exhibition at Eric Carle Museum highlights wildlife and the natural world; National Endowment for the Humanities announces 2023 grant winners
The Boston Globe: A celebration of gardening in new poetry anthology; new exhibition at Eric Carle Museum highlights wildlife and the natural world; National Endowment for the Humanities announces 2023 grant winners
In 'Leaning Toward Light,' tending to life through a garden of poems - 48 hills
In 'Leaning Toward Light,' tending to life through a garden of poems - 48 hills
Leaning Toward Light — EcoTheo Collective
Leaning Toward Light — EcoTheo Collective
August 9, 2023 – KWMR
August 9, 2023 – KWMR
The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
Bay City Books: "Why We Need to Be Wild" and other new books from Bay Area Authors - August 2023 - Local News Matters
Bay City Books: "Why We Need to Be Wild" and other new books from Bay Area Authors - August 2023 - Local News Matters
Poetry Takes Bloom – ZYZZYVA
Poetry Takes Bloom – ZYZZYVA
Alta: 11 New Books for August
Alta: 11 New Books for August
Berkeley in the Nineties by Tess Taylor | Poetry Foundation
Berkeley in the Nineties by Tess Taylor | Poetry Foundation
The Slowdown, Episode 91: Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic?
The Slowdown, Episode 91: Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic?
‘Beowulf’ and Beyond: A Poet Who Embraced Translation| NY Times
‘Beowulf’ and Beyond: A Poet Who Embraced Translation| NY Times
Leaning toward Light | Tess Taylor | Early Reviews | NetGalley
Leaning toward Light | Tess Taylor | Early Reviews | NetGalley
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