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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 Exquisite Corpse, The Formalist, Literary Salt, The Nation, Nerve, The New York Quarterly, The Northwest Review,  NG, Poetry, Poetry Magazine,  Poetry Superhighway, Porcupine, Slow Trains , The Texas Review , and  X Connect  His fiction has appeared in such magazines and reviews as The Arabesque Review ,   Carve Magazine, Unlikely Stories, Slow Trains, The Vestal Review, The Paumanok Review , and in anthologies such as Bar Stories, E2ink-1: the Best of the Online Journals , You Have Time for This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories, and The Best Flash Fiction of the 21st Century

Taylor has also served as 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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WRITING NOT TYPING 04/05/08

 

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