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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 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, The Best of 20 Years of Cream City Review,
…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
, The Red Booth Review, 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, and The
Best Flash Fiction of the 21st 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
-Contact: taylorb@uwec.edu