• Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate
  • BIOGRAPHY
  • RECOGNITION
  • BOOKS
  • CHAPBOOKS
  • BROADSIDES
  • POEMS
    • poems by date
    • poems by publication
    • poems by title
    • chosen by readers
  • AUDIO AND VIDEO
    • Tate Reading
    • Jim's Big Drive North to the Glen
    • others reading Tate
    • Hell, I Love Everybody - audiobook
  • GALLERY
    • portraits
    • with others
    • places
    • events
  • PHOTO COLLECTION
    • signs
    • old long plain rd.
    • doughboys
    • victuals
    • C5As
    • objects
    • Provincetown & Cape Cod shoreline
    • quarry
  • THE GOVERNMENT LAKE
  • WORDS BY OTHERS
  • INTERVIEWS
  • EPIGRAPHS
  • POEM INDEX
  • LINKS
  • UPDATES
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JAMES TATE

  • Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate
  • BIOGRAPHY
  • RECOGNITION
  • BOOKS
  • CHAPBOOKS
  • BROADSIDES
  • POEMS
    • poems by date
    • poems by publication
    • poems by title
    • chosen by readers
  • AUDIO AND VIDEO
    • Tate Reading
    • Jim's Big Drive North to the Glen
    • others reading Tate
    • Hell, I Love Everybody - audiobook
  • GALLERY
    • portraits
    • with others
    • places
    • events
  • PHOTO COLLECTION
    • signs
    • old long plain rd.
    • doughboys
    • victuals
    • C5As
    • objects
    • Provincetown & Cape Cod shoreline
    • quarry
  • THE GOVERNMENT LAKE
  • WORDS BY OTHERS
  • INTERVIEWS
  • EPIGRAPHS
  • POEM INDEX
  • LINKS
  • UPDATES
  • POETRY REVIEW: JEANNE GRIGGS READS HELL, I LOVE EVERYBODY: THE ESSENTIAL JAMES TATE, Heavy Feather Review, 2025

  • HELL, I LOVE EVERYBODY: THE ESSENTIAL JAMES TATE by Ryan Cook, Rain Taxi, 2024

  • DARA BARROIS/DIXON ON THE LIVED POETRY OF THE LATE JAMES TATE by Peter Mishler, Lit Hub, 2023

  • REVIEW OF HELL, I LOVE EVERYBODY,. Publishers Weekly, 2023

  • NUDGING REALITY: ON JAMES TATE’S “HELL, I LOVE EVERYBODY” by Rowland Bagnall, Low Angeles Review of Books, 2023

  • JAMES TATE AND THE TOWN by Gillian Conoley, The Adroit Journal, 2023

  • “I’D RATHER BREAK YOUR HEART”: JAMES TATE’S SERIOUS INTENT by Christopher Brean Murray, The Adroit Journal, 2023

  • NO ONE NEEDED TO KNOW by Matthew Rohrer, The Adroit Journal, 2023

  • PUT THIS IN YOUR SOW HAT! by Arisa White, The Adroit Journal, 2023

  • FOREWORD TO HELL, I LOVE EVERYBODY by Terrance Hayes, The Adroit Journal, 2023

  • ON JAMES TATE by Rachel B. Glaser, The Paris Review, 2023

  • PROLOGUE, CÓMO SE ELIGE AL PAPA by Christopher DeWeese, Kriller71, 2019

  • JAMES TATE’S LAST, LAST POEMS by Matthew Zapruder, The Paris Review, 2019

  • THE LAST POEMS OF JAMES TATE by Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 2019

  • CHARLES SIMIC REFLECTS ON WHAT SET JAMES TATE’S LATE POETRY APART, The Washington Post, 2019

  • BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019 by Mark Ford, TLS, 2019

  • ON JAMES TATE’S LAST POEMS by Matthew Zapruder, Best American Poetry, 2019

  • STRANGE DAYS: JAMES TATE’S THE GOVERNMENT LAKE by Doris W. Cheng, Epiphany, 2019

  • MASTERS OF DISGUISE by Simon Armitage, 2019

  • JAMES TATE & THE SAVING GRACE OF POETIC NARRATIVE by Kurt Luchs, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 2018

  • INEXHAUSTIBLE & BRILLIANT by Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books, 2017

  • THE GENIUS OF JAMES TATE by John Morgan, The New York Review of Books, 2017

  • LITERARY TREASURES: REMEMBERING JAMES TATE by Anne Holmes, Library of Congress, 2017

  • HILARIOUS & SAD: JAMES TATE, DOME OF THE HIDDEN PAVILION by Ian Seed, PN Review, 2017

  • FROM THE JAMES TATE TRIBUTE by Dorothea Lasky, Bat City Review, 2016

  • ISSUE 12 FEATURE: JAMES TATE TRIBUTE, Bat City Review, 2016

  • “BEHAVE THYSELF,” Ransom Center Magazine, 2016

  • REMEMBERING JAMES TATE by Kurt Heinzelman, Ransom Center Magazine, 2016

  • POETRY IN REVIEW by Abigail Deutsch, Yale Review, 2016

  • FROM THE ARCHIVE: JAMES TATE’S LETTER, 1971, Academy of American Poets, 2016

  • SECOND ACTS: A SECOND LOOK AT SECOND BOOKS OF POETRY… by Lisa Russ Spaar, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2016

  • I REMEMBER by James Haug, 2015

  • ONE OF THE TRUE GENIUSES OF AMERICAN POETRY… by Rich Smith, The Stranger, 2015

  • A HYPERTEXT TRIBUTE TO JAMES TATE by Christopher Boucher, Electric Lit, 2015

  • BETWEEN THE LINES: JAMES TATE, 1943-2015 by James Heflin, Valley Advocate, 2015

  • REMEMBERING JAMES TATE (1943-2015), Partisan, 2015

  • REMEMBERING JIM by Gail Mazur, Mass Poetry, 2015

  • REMEMBERING JIM TATE by Lori Shine, Medium, 2015

  • NOTEWORTHY: ON JAMES TATE by Kelly McBride, The Curator, 2015

  • JAMES TATE’S ‘DOME OF THE HIDDEN PAVILION’ by Meghan O’Rourke, The New York Times, 2015

  • “DOME OF THE HIDDEN PAVILION” BY JAMES TATE by Michael Andor Brodeur, Boston Globe, 2015

  • DOME OF THE HIDDEN PAVILION BY JAMES TATE by Mikko Harvey, The Rumpus, 2015

  • ONE FROM THEN: JAMES TATE by Bob Herz, Nine Mile Magazine, 2013

  • RECONFIGURING THE MODERN AMERICAN LYRIC: THE POETRY OF JAMES TATE by Anthony Caleshu, Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, Modern Poetry, 2011

  • JAMES TATE: “THE COWBOY” by Stuart Krimko, Poetry Foundation, 2010

  • THE GHOST SOLDIERS MICRO REVIEW by Virginia Konchan, Boston Review, 2009

  • ON JAMES TATE edited by Brian Henry, University of Michigan Press, 2004

  • SURPRISE! SURPRISE! by Mark Ford, The New York Review of Books, 2004

  • “BIVOUACKED BETWEEN WORLDS”: THE POETRY OF JAMES TATE by Anthony Caleshu, Hollins Critic, 2004

  • EMERSONIAN TRANSITION IN JAMES TATE’S “THE LOST PILOT” by Brian Henry, The Iowa Review, 2002

  • A PUNK IN THE ACADEMY by James Wilk, Boog City, 2002

  • JAMES TATE’S SECRET CO-PILOT by Craig McDaniel, New England Review, 2002

  • THE WEEKEND WE WROTE THE LOST EPIC by Dara Wier, jubilat, 2000

  • SHROUD OF THE GNOME by Max Winter, Boston Review, 1998

  • STOP MAKING SENSE by Adam Kirsch, The New York Times, 1998

  • SHROUD OF THE GNOME by Kelly Everding, Rain Taxi, 1997

  • ON JAMES TATE by Carolyne Wright, The Iowa Review, 1996

  • REVIEW OF WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF FLETCHERS by Evie Shockley, National Book Foundation, 1994

  • LIVELY LANGUAGE: JAMES TATE IS THE WINNER OF THIS YEAR’S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY by Amy Gerstler, Los Angeles Times, 1994

  • COMEDY, INTERIORITY, HISTORY by Richard Tillinghast, The New York Times, 1992

  • THE MASTERS CAN ONLY MAKE US LAUGH: AUTHORITY IN THE POETRY OF JAMES TATE by Lee Upton, South Atlantic Review, 1990

  • JAMES TATE: TIPSTER NOMAD ON A PLANET OF ROUGH EDGES by Richard Jackson, Ploughshares, 1985

  • JAMES TATE AND THOR HEYERDAHL ON THEIR WAY TO WORK by Thomas Lux, The Iowa Review, 1973

  • THE TREE DOES NOT RISE NOR DOES IT BOW by Julian Moynahan, The New York Times, 1972

  • A YOUNG POET by Jeremy W. Heist, The Harvard Crimson, 1967