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Professor Emeritus, Bruce Taylor's

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 Exquisite Corpse, The Formalist, Light, The Nation, The New York Quarterly, The Northwest Review,  and Poetry. His is poetry is available online at Literary Salt, Nerve,  Poetry Magazine, Slow Trains , X Connect  . and on Writer’s Almanac 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. His fiction can be found online at The Arabesque Review , Slow Trains, The Vestal Review, and Unlikely Stories,.

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 the Excellence In Scholarship award from UWEC .

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

   The Able Muse,,

                        Verse Wisconsin 101|Print Contributors' Audio

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