The Guest Authors Series is pleased to provide this opportunity to hear, see and talk with award-winning poet Tess Taylor, whose work has been hailed by reviewers, readers and her fellow poets for its grace, power and exquisite craft.

Known, too, for her essays and commentaries on NPR and CNN, Tess Taylor is a voice of our time, informed by a love of nature and a spirituality that embraces human experience past and present.

Her newest books, Rift Zone and Last West, are, respectively, "a powerful core sample of America at the brink," the poems "Circling... an ordinary suburb lying along the Hayward fault line" and "a stunning meditation on movement, landscape, and place" that follows the photographer Dorothea Lange's travels in California during and after the Great Depression.

This event is free and open to the public.

To join us, email Series Director Henry Marchand at hmarchand@mpc.edu to request the Zoom link.