Although Tess Gallagher has established her reputation primarily as a poet, she has also won increasing recognition as a writer of fiction with the publication of two short-story collections, The Lover of Horses and Other Stories (1986) and At the Owl Wo...

Like the versatile denizen of Hummingbird Mountain in her story "Venison Pie," Tess Gallagher is a contemporary hybrid. Deeply rooted in her native Washington State, Gallagher draws on the literature and culture of places as distant as Ireland, Eastern E...

The publication of Tess Gallagher's early poems coincided with a ground swell of feminist awareness and the birth of a new feminist literature in the United States. In addition to chronicling the emergence of a feminine identity, Gallagher's poems also m...

Poetry gives no adequate return in money, is expensive to print by reason of the waste of space occasioned by its form, and nearly always promulgates illusory concepts of life. Myles na gCopaleen No one is more confident than a...

Sometimes I feel her easing further into her grave, resigned, as always, and I have to come to her rescue. Like now, when I have so much else to do. Not that she'd want a poem. She would have been proud, of course, of...

"I Stop Writing the Poem" by Tess Gallagher, portrays the traditional role of the woman who gives up her interests to assume a role model as a wife and as a mother.