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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 .
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