Taneesh Kaur
Teaching Artist
Poet, Painter, Linguist
“Taneesh Kaur consistently writes poems that are not fearless, but rather heedless of fear. Thawing is an act of headlong self-exploration and spares the poet very little. Taneesh writes the stripping of husks, the burning leaf pile, and possibly the hint of new growth. I found myself to be mostly speechless, wrapped in the words with all nerves exposed.”
K Shuck 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco Emerita
Author of Pick a Garnet to Sleep In (Scapegoat Press)
“Thawing invites us to a cacophony of inner and outer reflections that demand response-ability be taken for wounds society’s tradition inflicts. These soul searching prose break the ice with stunningly sharp poems candidly aware, eye-witness to a thousand cuts.”
Tureeda Mikell
Author of Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine (Black Lawrence Press)
about
Taneesh Kaur is an award-winning, first-generation Punjabi teaching artist educated in linguistics, literature and fine arts. She is a social justice advocate who collaborates with nature to understand and dismantle systems of mental and physical oppression. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Colossus Press, Street Spirit, and The Bloom among others, and her full-length collection, Thawing: A Poetic Memoir, was released in 2024 from Collapse Press. Taneesh has a Master's in Linguistics from San Francisco State University, with training abroad in Mexico and Chile, and an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Se habla español.