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.
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
In January 2023, poet Tess Taylor told CNN Opinion readers how a daily haiku practice was changing her life. At the end of the year, she reached out to ask readers to share how that practice might be changing theirs. Hundreds of submissions later, Taylor shares the haiku that are getting readers through.