In our era of furious certainties, when we are daily urged to know the world in absolutes, poetry offers us a much-needed space to be uncertain and to change our minds, argues Tess Taylor.
Journalist, teacher, and playwright Tess Taylor is the author of five poetry collections and the editor of Leaning Toward Light (Storey, 2023). She’s been drawn to Ireland’s literary contributions and green landscapes since she was in college, reading the works of such writers as Eavan Boland, Seamus Heaney, and Brian Friel.
The Republican candidate’s odds of victory in November stand to be swayed by the decisions of judges and jurors in New York and Washington. In the Art Deco criminal courthouse in Manhattan, prosecutors started methodically building a case against Trump while the conservative justices in the US Supreme Court’s marble-walled chamber seemed inclined to give the former president some support for his immunity argument.
Against a tide of weariness, I have two pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, and read or write a poem, writes Tess Taylor.
MIDCOAST — "Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry," edited by Christopher Nelson and published by Green Linden Press, has at its heart the idea that poetry can reveal our shared