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Professor Emeritus, Bruce Taylor's
special areas of preparation and expertise are
Creative Writing, American literature, The Literature of Love Sex Marriage and
Romance, and The First Year Experience. He is the author of seven collections
of poetry, including Pity the World: Poems Selected and New (Plain View Press ) 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 is
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 has 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 Laurete of Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Listen
: SELECTIONS FROM PITY THE
WORLD, WHWC FM 88.3, produced by Mary
Jo Wagner for WPR
Amazon.com: Pity the World (9781891386527): Bruce
Taylor: Books
(for Sale)
Out
of Print (for Sale)
AVAILABLE FOR READINGS, WORKSHOPS AND
PRESENTATIONS, INCLUDING:
§ “The Muse in the Machine: Creative
Computing for Teachers and Writers,”
Using Microsoft Word to
inspire and enable teachers, students, and writers
§ “Life Writing: Writing for Your
Life”
The
pleasures and benefits of life long writing for life long
learners.
§ “Why Poetry Matters, Even If You Never
Read Any”
How the basic elements of
poetry can inform and enlighten our understanding of almost everything else
§ Image-ing 911
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
A
history and examination of the great male lover in Literature and Art.
-Contact: taylorb@uwec.edu