Tess Gallagher

Biography

Tess Gallagher is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, including Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems, Dear Ghosts, and Moon Crossing Bridge. Her other books include A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry and several collections of short fiction. Her many awards include a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.

See Work

POETRY / Autumn 1995

Because the Dream Is My Tenderest Arm

By Tess Gallagher

absence is a margin of strongholds. I go out
and I go out. Love is sequence and
condition: one of the few winter nights

POETRY / Autumn 1995

Laughter and Stars

By Tess Gallagher

I didn’t make present
those days he didn’t complain
but I knew he was sick, felt
sick, and a look would pass between us,
a doomed look that nonetheless