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John Tessitore

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John Tessitore grew up on Long Island and is a long-time resident of Massachusetts. He has been a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer, and a biographer. He has taught British and American history and literature at colleges around Boston and has directed national policy studies on education, civil justice, and cultural policy. He now runs his own strategic communications business. His poems have appeared in the American Journal of Poetry, Canary, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Wild Roof, The Ekphrastic Review, and other journals and anthologies. His chapbooks, I Sit At This Desk and Dream: Notes from a Sunday Morning on Instagram (2021), We Are Becoming Unbound (2022), All the Lonely American Roads (2022), Parchment: A Prayer Quintet, Body S ...more

The American Spirit in January 2025

I should have known I was preparing a Jeremiad.

I wrote the poems in my new little book, Apocrypha: Poems, over several years, though most were written in 2024.

They flooded out every so often, and when they came I was obsessive about them.

Also a little concerned: When did I become so mystical?

Now I know I was responding to a crisis on the horizon, less like a mystic and more like a prophet. (I’m a Read more of this blog post »
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Published on January 26, 2025 09:24 Tags: america, apocrypha, poetry, spirituality
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Extraordinary American Writers

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