Tess Taylor
Tess Taylor is the author of the chapbook The Misremembered World, selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship; The Forage House, which was a finalist for the Believer poetry prize; and Work & Days, which was named one of the best books of poetry of 2016 by the New York Times. Ilya Kaminsky recently hailed her as “the poet for our moment.” In spring 2020 she published two books of poems: Last West, part of the exhibition Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures at the New York Museum of Modern Art, and Rift Zone, from Red Hen Press. She is a poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered.

Monarchs: A Poem for Our Fluttering Friends
In a dedication to monarch butterflies, Tess Taylor considers their beauty and migratory lives in verse.

Downhill White Supremacists March on Sacramento: A Poem
Tess Taylor reflects on a painful past in this poem from her forthcoming collection, Rift Zone.