Tayson’s poem “Antigone’s Dream” appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Colorado Review, a literary journal published by Colorado State University.
Richard Tayson's essay "the volcano sequence as Fragmentary, Postmodern (and Yes, Feminist) Text" appears in Everywoman Her Own Theology: On the Poetry of Alicia Ostriker (2018). Part of the Under Discussion series from the University of Michigan Press, the book is edited by Martha Nell Smith and Julia R. Enszer and includes contributions by Toi Derricotte, Marilyn Hacker, Joan Larkin, and others.
Tayson’s essay, "Language Sideways: The Poetry of Addiction" was published by TheFix.com, a website, now defunct, dedicated to addiction and recovery. The essay delved into three debut books of poems from Sam Sax, William Brewer and Kaveh Akbar. “There, the mind doesn’t explain. It doesn’t offer delusion or false comfort. Yet it comforts, perhaps because open space is public space that has the potential to welcome us all. In its meaninglessness, it aspires to greater meaning, the way, say, our parks and canyons and monuments are open to everyone.”