Tasha Graff Q&A on her poem ‘Testimony’
Tasha Graff talks about the genesis of her poem "Testimony."
Tasha Graff
Tasha Graff Q&A on reading her poems aloud
Tasha Graff talks about reading her poems aloud as she writes.
Tasha Graff Q&A with a recommendation
Tasha Graff recommends the poetry of Tracy K. Smith.
Tasha Graff Q&A with advice to young writers
Tasha Graff offers some advice to young writers.
From Maine to New York
I once read in a poem that the heart rests between beats. My suitcase holds three books, a nightgown and clothes for six days. It takes five and a half hours to drive to Harlem. My grandmother sleeps until 11. I leave Portland at 9. We have dinner at our favorite restaurant on LaSalle Street. […]
Falling Back
Something shifts in that in-between November light– sends questions of color, cold and time through my body. The birds sleep. Am I mistaking morning for gloaming? Perhaps the other way around? Something in my lungs remembers: The leaves have fallen, snow is coming. I changed my clock. “Falling Back” first appeared in Winter […]
The Front Room
for Pete Coviello Over beers and chicken tacos with more spice than anticipated you told me, Bliss does not replace grief. I will learn, as you learned, that happiness and sadness live in the same house, sometimes nestled side by side, sometimes on different floors or just down the hall in another room. […]
Setting Sun
I walk to Library Park and watch the sun set. There are days of cold ahead. The oak is an etching— an outline, her twisted branches reaching like swollen broken fingers fighting the fracturing cold. The firmament blushes. Each figment of her bark recedes until she is but one stoic profile of complicated, […]