Deborah Tall

Upcoming

April 27, 2004: panelist in the "Poetry and Politics" symposium at Stanford University.

NEW POEMS recently published in Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and Smartish Pace.

Selected Works

Books of Creative Nonfiction

FROM WHERE WE STAND: RECOVERING A SENSE OF PLACE
An exploration of the meaning of place set in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York

THE ISLAND OF THE WHITE COW
A memoir of the five years the author lived on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland

Books of Poetry

SUMMONS
Chosen by Charles Simic as Winner of the 1999 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry

Co-Edited with Stephen Kuusisto and David Weiss

THE POET'S NOTEBOOK
Excerpts from the Notebooks of Contemporary American Poets

Edited

SENECA REVIEW
Award-winning Literary Journal

Selected Essays

Essay: Memory's Landscapes: An Autumn in Eastern Europe (from Tikkun)
A meditation on history, place, and identity

Essay: American Waterfalls (from Orion)
An Introduction to Photographs by John Pfahl

Essay: The Where of Writing: Hemingway's Sense of Place (from The Southern Review)
How sense of place affects our writing

Selected Poems

Excerpts from SUMMONS

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