Professor Emeritus
Bruce is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Pity the World: Poems Selected and New and editor of eight anthologies including the UPRIVER series of Wisconsin Poetry and Prose, Wisconsin Poetry (Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts & Letters), and, with Patti See, Higher Learning, (Prentice Hall, 3ed.) 2011
His poetry and translations have appeared in such places as The Chicago Review, The Columbia Review, The Exquisite Corpse, The Formalist, Light, The Nation, The New York Quarterly, The Northwest Review, Poetry and Rosebud. His poetry is available online at Able Muse, The Cortland Review, Literary Salt,Slow Trains, Verse Wisconsin, Your Daily Poem and on Writer's Almanac as read by Garrison Keillor.
His fiction has appeared in such anthologies as Bar Stories, E2ink-1: the Best of the Online Journals, You Have Time for This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories, Families, and The Best Flash Fiction of the 21st Century and "Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction". His fiction can be found online at The Arabesque Review, Slow Trains, and The Vestal Review.
Taylor has lectured at Jinan University in Zhuhai, People's Republic of China, been a Senior Fulbright Fellow at Koreyo University, Seoul, South Korea, a member of the Literature Panel of the Wisconsin Arts Board and host of The Writer's Workshop: Wisconsin ETN and a program scholar and consultant for the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the L.E. Phillips Library, the Annenberg/CPB Project and Drexel's University First Year Experience Program.
He as won awards and Fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board, Fulbright-Hayes, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Council of Wisconsin Writers, the Bush Artist Foundation and the Excellence In Scholarship award from UWEC . He is the current Poet Laureate of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Listen:
SELECTIONS FROM PITY THE WORLD, WHWC FM 88.3, produced by Mary Jo Wagner for WPR
Watch:
Out Of Print (For Sale)
Available for Readings, Workshops and Presentations, including:
- “The Muse in the Machine: Creative Computing for Teachers and Writers"
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- Using Microsoft Word to inspire and enable teachers, students, and writers
- Using Microsoft Word to inspire and enable teachers, students, and writers
- “Life Writing: Writing for Your Life"
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- The pleasures and benefits of life long writing for life long learners
- The pleasures and benefits of life long writing for life long learners
- “Why Poetry Matters, Even If You Never Read Any"
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- How the basic elements of poetry can inform and enlighten our understanding of almost everything else
- How the basic elements of poetry can inform and enlighten our understanding of almost everything else
- Image-ing 911
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- Examining 911 as the most imaged event in the history and what it can tell us about ourselves, and the world we must live in after it
- Examining 911 as the most imaged event in the history and what it can tell us about ourselves, and the world we must live in after it
- The Trouble with Don Juan
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- A history and examination of the great male lover in Literature and Art
Contact: taylorb@uwec.edu
