TAYVE NEESE
BIO
Tayve Neese’s work has appeared in journals and anthologies around the United States and abroad including The Paris Review (online edition), Comstock Review, Fourteen Hills, and diode. A Pushcart nominated poet, her work was also longlisted for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor's International Poetry Prize in Australia. Blood to Fruit, her first poetry collection, was a semi-finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Her recent full-length collection evolution psalms was a finalist for the Hudson Poetry Prize for Black Lawrence Press and published by Saint Julian Press. Her collection Locust is forthcoming from Salmon Press in Ireland. Neese is co-founder of Trio House Press, where she was the Co-Executive Editor for twelve years, and was also the Founding Editor of The Banyan Review, an international, online journal.
To inquire about readings or editing services, please direct your email to tayveneese@gmail.com.
POEMS FOUND ONLINE
"Still, we wait for sounds of plumage," Vox Populi, August 2, 2021
"At thirteen," Vox Populi, June 23, 2021
"I believe in chakras," Vox Populi , December 2020
"Inside her muscle, a blossom," Vox Populi, October 2020
Jax by Jax Reading: Video documentary event, marker 15:16 minutes, October 2020
"Upon Stealing My Neighbor's Peaches," Cordella, September 2020.
"He says, it's so shallow," Vox Populi, Septeber 2020
"Blessing the Locusts," Vox Populi, August 2020
Voetica Recordings of poems read by Lindsey Rousseau 2020
"Quarantine #4," "Without rod or staff in the age of satellites and viruses" MiGoZine, 2020
"I can feel the world about to fall," is longlisted for the 2019 Vice Chancellor's International Poetry Prize at the University of Canberra, AU
"Aubade for Fernandina Beach " Burrow Press, 2019
"To my father returning to Douglas, Georgia, 1969," "Sometimes, to lay your burden down," and "Georgia Zodiac" Cold Mountain, 2016
"Radioactive Boars Are Roaming Around Germany," "Evolution Psalms," "So quietly, beauty leaves" diode, 2015
"What the conch spoke" Ethel, 2018
"Beckoner's Lament" Heron Tree, 2015
"Because my daughters are growing" Paris Review, 2011
"In my first country of sulfur" Poetry City, 2015
INTERVIEWS/ MENTIONS
The New York Times, 2022, Gerald Stern, Poet of Wistfulness, Anger and Humor, Dies at 97 2022
Cultural Daily, 2021
by F.R. Foksal at The NonConformist Magazine "State of the Art #2: Tayve Neese" 2019
Best American Poetry, Interview 2015
REVIEWS
Web Del Sol Review of Books: Joan Houlihan's The Mending Worm
Web Del Sol Review of Books: Bhisham Bherwani's The Second Night of the Spirit
BOOKS
evolution psalms, Saint Julian Press, 2022
Blood to Fruit, David Robert Books 2015
Atticus, The Rush of Air Between Words-Review of Blood to Fruit by Tayve Neese 2015
Locust forthcoming title from Salmon Poetry, County Clare, Ireland