Tess Gallagher at Field Arts & Events Hall

Tess Gallagher’s new poems are suspended between contradiction and beautyIs, Is Not upends our notions of linear time, evokes the spirit and sanctity of place, and hovers daringly at the threshold of what language can nearly deliver while offering alternative corollaries as gifts of its failures. Te... Read More about Is, Is Not: Poems

Tess Gallagher, one of America's most accomplished poets, presents Moon Crossing Bridge, her sixth book, a descent into the world of the dead, a remembrance of her recently deceased beloved, whose presence and absence are recalled in sombre lyrical rhythms and with a extraordinary range of expressio... Read More about Moon Crossing Bridge: Poetry

*A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Poetry Book of Fall 2011* We brave into ourselves each time we put on our lantern-light and step out—as a gleam steps out its overlapping forms to lift a path from its nest of darkness. —from "Midnight Lantern" In Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems,... Read More about Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems

"It is impossible to read Tess Gallagher's poems without being drawn into their mesmerizing rhythms and convinced of the rightness of her intense yet unforced images." --Joyce Carol Oates Timeto put our arms around each other's waists—my man,... Read More about Dear Ghosts,: Poems

The Man from Kinvara presents selected stories from a renowned poet and prose writer "who savors the elegance of simplicity and whose stories resonate and linger" (The New York Times Book Review) Tess Gallagher's vivid and rewarding short stories bear witness to the intimate details and subtle revel... Read More about The Man from Kinvara: Selected Stories