special areas of preparation and expertise are Creative Writing, American literature, 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 2005) 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,) 2005

His poetry and translations have appeared in such places as The Chicago Review,, The Columbia Review, The Formalist, The Nation, The New York Quarterly, The Northwest Review, Poetry, , Porcupine, The Texas Review and anthologized in such collections as 75 Poems on Retirement, …But, Buddy, I’m a Kind of Poem: An Anthology of Sinatra Verse, Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Poetic Forms, In My Neighborhood: Poetry of Wisconsin Cities, Intimate Kisses: Poetry of Sexual Pleasure, Northwest Review: Thirtieth Anniversary Issue, Spilt Verse: Poetry of Separation and Divorce. World Poetry, and Yearbook Anthology of American Verse, His is poetry is available online at The Exquisite Corpse, Literary Salt, Nerve, Poetry Magazine, Slow Trains , X Connect . and on Writer’s Almanac read by Garrison Keillor.

His fiction has appeared in such magazines and reviews as The Arabesque Review , Carve Magazine, Unlikely Stories, and anthologized in such collections 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 21^st Century. His fiction can be found online at Slow Trains, The Vestal Review, and The Paumanok Review ,

Taylor has also served as creator and host of “The Muse in the Machine: Creative Computing for Teachers and Writers,” as invited lecturer at Jinan University in Zhuhai, People’s Republic of China, 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 as 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 was the recipient of the 2004 Excellence In Scholarship award from UWEC .

Listen : SELECTIONS FROM PITY THE WORLD, WHWC FM 88.3, produced by Mary Jo Wagner for WPR

Watch : LINER NOTES: THE JOYNT with videographer Chuck Frank, produced by Jo Garreth for In Wisconsin, WHA-TV/DT, Madison

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-Contact: taylorb@uwec.edu