Newspoet Tess Taylor Writes The Day in Verse

Each month, NPR's All Things Considered invites a poet into the newsroom to see how the show comes together and to write an original poem about the news. This month the NewsPoet is Tess Taylor, a 2010-2011 Amy Clampitt Resident who has received writing fellowships from Amherst College, the American Antiquarian Society, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. Listen to her poem reflecting on the day's news Monday August 20th on witf, your home for NPR News and All Things Regional.