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Author: Jessie Taylor

A Song for You

Posted onApril 26, 2022Leave a comment

Originally published in “Move” by The Arts Tribune (Fall 2019, volume 8, issue 1) “Agnes, come line up for class now, dear,” the woman who is not my teacher coos Read More …

An Argument Against Paraphrasing: “They Flee From Me” by Sir. Thomas Wyatt

Posted onNovember 7, 2021November 7, 2021Leave a comment

If one were to briefly paraphrase Sir Thomas Wyatt’s poem, “They Flee from Me,” it may sound something like this:  Those women, who once took risks to seek out my Read More …

Tagsparaphrasing, poetry, renaissancelyricpoetry

MANY NIGHTS AGO

Posted onOctober 17, 2021October 17, 2021Leave a comment

I wrote this poem while sitting with my dad in a gluten-free cafe. Now it’s published in Watch Your Head: an anthological response to the climate crisis. Name something more Read More …

Poem Explication: “The River in Spate” by Michael Donaghy

Posted onMarch 30, 20211 Comment

The River in Spate by Michael Donaghy (1954-2004) sweeps us both down its cold grey current. Grey now as your father was when I met you, I wake even now Read More …

Our Birth is but a Sleep and a Forgetting: Sublimity and Childhood in William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations,” and Samuel Coleridge’s “Frost at Midnight”

Posted onJanuary 25, 2021Leave a comment

In William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” and Samuel T. Coleridge’s “Frost at Midnight,” the poets explore themes of childhood development while considering the sublime Read More …

Are They Liars, Too?

Posted onNovember 23, 2019March 27, 20202 Comments

The women at my therapist’s office all wear lipstick. I know this because the glasses are always smeared with the remnants of the mouth that drank before, sipping in an attempt Read More …

Tagslipstick, poem, poetry, therapy, truth, women

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