The El Cerrito Library’s 75th birthday will be celebrated with an author series featuring authors from the city, including 2024 El Cerrito Poet Laureate Tess Taylor.
On Saturday, Sept. 14 at 10:30 a.m., Taylor will discuss her literary work and share her memories of El Cerrito and the library.
“We are very proud and excited to host our local poet laureate,” says Library Manager Heidi Goldstein. “This event not only marks the library’s history but celebrates Tess’s creativity, vision, and positive impact on the community.”
Taylor’s work deals with place, ecology, memory, and cultural reckoning. She’s published five poetry collections: “The Misremembered World,” “The Forage House,” “Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange,” and “Rift Zone,” one of the Boston Globe’s best books of 2020.
Her book “Work & Days” was one of the New York Times best poetry books of 2016. In fall 2023, she published the anthology “Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them,” a collection of contemporary gardening poems for an era of climate crisis. Taylor is also a poetry reviewer for NPR’s “All Things Considered” and writes review editorials for CNN and The New York Times.
The El Cerrito Library is located at 6510 Stockton Ave. In the works are plans to construct a new, 20,000 square foot library as part of the El Cerrito Plaza BART Transit-Oriented Development project.
For more information about this program, call the El Cerrito Library at (510) 526-7512.
