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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 .
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THE WORLD, WHWC FM 88.3,
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-Contact: taylorb@uwec.edu