Louise Glück (1943-2023): One of the great voices of our time, poet who stripped away sentimentality, cliché, and trendiness to reveal her understated, essential and unobstructed poetry.
Tayson with his treasured Virginia Woolf, London.
With Gregory Pardlo after his reading of Air Traffic and the Stella Adler Studio
With Linda Gregg and Jack Gilbert, reader and introducer for Linda’s reading at Writers at Rutgers.
With fellow New School creative writing instructor, Alice Cone.
With Maggie Anderson at the Zimmerli Art Museum, host of her Writers at Rutgers reading
With Edmund White at Writers at Rutgers, which Tayson directed for two years.
With Jhumpa Lahiri, the youngest person to win the Pulitzer Prize.
Dana Levin, author of Now Do You Know Where You Are (2022), in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, during the time she and Tayson attended the graduate program in creative writing at New York University.
Joan Larkin and Grace Paley, book party for Larkin’s My Body: New and Selected Poems
With students Melissa Puello and Isoken Osagie, both graduates of the New School Writing Program.
Celebrating Alicia Ostriker’s birthday—and the publication of Everywoman Her Own Theology: On the Poetry of Alicia Ostriker—at the Algonquin
Alicia Ostriker and Martha Nell Smith—a former student of Alicia’s and the co-editor of Everywoman Her Own Theology: On the Poetry of Alicia Ostriker—celebrating at the Algoniquin.
Jhumpa Lahiri with Wesley Brown at the Writers at Rutgers reading Tayson organized when he directed the series.
Martha Nell Smith and Julie R. Enszer, editors of Everywoman Her Own Theology: On the Poetry of Alicia Ostriker, at the Algonquin.
With Donna Masini, author of 4:30 Movie, New School University
With Mary Crow, former Colorado Poet Laureate, author of Addicted to the Horizon; I Have Tasted the Apple; Borders; and the influential Woman Who Has Sprouted Wings: Poems by Contemporary Latin American Women Poets.
With Melissa Puello and Michael Mishka Anthony, Riggio Writing & Democracy Program Honors Thesis Reading, New School Writing Program
With fellow-alum of the NYU Graduate Program in Creative Writing and author of Bed of Crimson Joy, Joan Poole at the New School Jean Valentine Tribute.
With Joan Larkin, author of Blue Hanuman, My Body: New and Selected Poems, and Cold River.
Jean Valentine Tribute: front row, l. to r.: Anne Marie Macari, Joan Larkin, Elizabeth Metzger, Jane Mead, Mary Ruefle, Michael Burkard, Jean Valentine, Ocean Vuong, Patrick Rosal, Jeffrey Yang. back row, l. to r.: D. Nurkse, Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Brian Teare.
Honor Moore--author of The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter--and Alice Cohen at a New School publications party.
with Star Black, author of six books of poems, most recently Velleity's Shade, photographer, and lifelong friend of the late Paul Monette's closest friend, New School publications party.
with Alice Cohen at a New School University celebration of faculty and alumni publications, February 19, 2016. Alice's memoir, The Year My Mother Came Back, was published in 2015.
With Alicia Ostriker at a reading for The Old Woman, the Tulip and the Dog
With Marilyn Hacker, judge of the Wick Poetry Prize, and Maggie Anderson, former Director of the Wick Poetry Center
With Paule Marshall and Abena Busia, the night Marshall read for the Writers at Rutgers reading series.
With Julia Tavalaro on the cover of the German edition of Look Up for Yes. Photo: Sunny Fine
With Tim Seibles, Ruth Schwartz, and Sheryl St. Germain, Associated Writing Programs.
With Jean Valentine, winner of the National Book Award.
With Edmund White at his Writers at Rutgers reading, which Tayson organized.
Peter Frampton, Portland, Oregon, 1979. Sondra Crippen was so obsessed with him that she found out his flight arrival time.
Timothy Liu, Michael Montlack, Richard Tayson, Steven Cordova, Michael Broder, and Jason Schneiderman at at reading at the LGBT Center for My Diva: 65 Gay Poets on the Women Who Inspire Them, edited by Montlack.
Maggie Anderson, former director of the Wick Poetry Center, and Victoria Redel, first winner of the Wick Prize.
With Gerald Stern.
With Jason Schneiderman at CUNY’s graduation from the Graduate Center, Lincoln Center.
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Wick Poetry Program, with Rosemary Wiley, David Hassler, Maggie Anderson, Alicia Ostriker, Anele Rubin.
with Suze Orman at the Books for a Better Life Awards, for which Look Up for Yes was nominated.