Life is Big: To Be a Poet Gardener, Tess Taylor
Tess Taylor is a self-described Poet Gardener – and if there is ever a season to feel the poetry of life in the garden and with the plants in every cell of your body, it’s springtime! An award-winning poet with many collection titles to her name and editor of the life-supporting anthology Leaning Toward Light Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them, Tess is also the Poet Laureate of El Cerrito, California.
Among the many things we speak about in our wide ranging conversation, Tess shares how the "seasonal" structure of Leaning Toward Light sometimes taught her about surprising seasons that garden life brings us – like seasons of reverie, dreaming, and grief.