Tess Taylor’s work deals with place, ecology, and cultural reckoning. Her play LAST WEST, about Dorothea Lange, launched at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art in 2025. Her next book of poems, Come Bite, is out from Milkweed Editions in 2027.
Tess Taylor
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Tess Taylor’s ‘Three Notebooks’
Tess Taylor captures fragments of dream text, blank invitations, and stored receipts, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 47, ‘Security.’
Whiteness Visible: Three Poets Explore the Grammar of Racism
What is the impact of racism on those who perpetuate it? Three white poets explore and confront the implicit ways racism is bound up in the daily transactions, judgments, and assumptions of their everyday lives.
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