CURRICULUM VITAE (selected)
Name: Bruce
Taylor
Webb http://www.uwec.edu/taylorb/
Rank: Professor
Emeritus
EDUCATION, University
of Arkansas,
M.F.A., 1972, University
of Arkansas, M.A., 1972, Bridgewater
State College, B.A., 1968
EXPERIENCE
(selected)
2008 Invited Lecturer (Five Lectures) Jinan Univerity, Zhuhai, People’s Rebublic of China.
2008 Workshop presenter “The Muse in the Machine: Creative Computing for
Teachers and Writers” at the 4th annual Power of the Pen Writers
Conference in Neenah, Wisconsin.
2008. final judge for John G.
Morris Award for Poetry, Cameron University, Cameron,
Oklahoma.
2007 final judge for annual poetry award for Wisconsin
People and Ideas published by The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts &
Letters.
2006 Program
Scholar for Love
Stories: Stage Page and Screen, a series of four presentations at the Eau
Claire Public Library.
2003 Pre-conference
workshop co leader {invited}" Coming of Age Film and Fiction in an Interactive
First-Year Experience” at the Twenty Second annual Conference on The
Freshman Year Experience Atlanta Georgia,
2003
2000 Consultant, Drexel
University FYE Program
Development,
1999 Program
Scholar for The Booker Prize, a series of four presentations on recent
Booker Award Winning Novels at the Eau Claire Public Library, funded by The
Wisconsin Humanities Council..
1998 Program
Scholar for John Updike’s America, a series of four presentations on The
Rabbit Tetralogy at the Eau Claire Public Library, funded by The Wisconsin
Humanities Council.,
1996 Co/Creator and Co/Leader of Poetry in
Motion, a poetry writing workshop for area high school students, offered
over four Saturdays from January toApril at the Eau Claire Public Library,
funded by The Wisconsin Humanities Council and the Reader’s Digest Lila Wallace
Foundation,
1995 Program
Scholar for The Genius of Toni Morrison, a series of four presentations
on selected novels by Toni Morrison at the Eau Claire Public Library, funded by
the Wisconsin Humanities Council.,
1994 Program
Scholar for Poets in Person, a series of five presentations on selected Contemporary American Poets at the Eau Claire Public
Library, funded by The Wisconsin Humanities Council.
,1993 Area Chair
“Wisconsin Poetry”, Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin Academy Sciences, Arts and Letters and Poetry Editor
of “The Proceedings.”,
1990-1993 Editorial
Board The Wisconsin Academy
Review,
1989 Consulting
humanist and program scholar for Lively Listening: An Introduction to
British and American Literature Wisconsin Public Radio, The Wisconsin
Humanities commission and The Annenberg/CPB Project.
1988-1992 Poetry
Editor, Transactions: Journal of Wisconsin
Academy of Arts and Sciences.,
1988 Consulting
humanist and program scholar for Voices and Visions: Modern American Poets
and their Poetry The American Library Association, PBS, and The
Annenberg/CPB Project.,
AWARDS,
GRANTS, AND HONORS (selected)
2006 Major Achievement Award from the Council for Wisconsin
Writers.,2005 "Defending Your Spouse," finalist (3 0ut of
700 +) The Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction ,2004 Award
for Excellence in Scholarship UWEC,2004 Finalist Lumina Second
National Poetry Contest (Billy Collins, Judge),2003 Short Fiction, “Exercise” winner of a Mild
Horse Press Anthology Best of the Webb
Award,2003
Short Fiction, “The Second Person” finalist in the Firebox Fiction Award
sponsored by Night
Train Magazine,2002 1st Place Whiskey
Island Poetry Award offered by Cleveland State University,2002
Short Fiction, “Exercise”
nominated for a Pushcart
Press Best of the Small Press Award by the Vestal Review,
2001 Featured Poet, Poetry SuperHighway,1998
Poem “Foreigner” selected to be included in the Midwest Express Center
Public Art Project. The poem is incorporated as an
architectural part of the Midwest Express Center ,1997 Two poems accepted
for exhibition at the Vision and the Word display at the L.E.Phillips Memorial
Library Eau Claire WI, October-December 1997 and at the State Capitol in
Madison,1996 Finalist, Robert Penn Warren Award for Poetry, Cumberland
Review.1993 Bush Artist Fellowship ($33,000), Bush
Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota,1983 Senior Lecturer, Fulbright-Hays
Award, Koreyo University, South Korea.,1981
Wisconsin Arts Board Creative Writing Fellowship ($3000): Judge, James Merrill.,1977
Editor, Publisher of “Red Weather,” listed by Pushcart Press Best of the
Small Press as “one of America’s outstanding literary magazines.”,1976
Advisor to NOTA, winner of 2nd (75) and 1st (76) CCLM/NEH
Contest for Undergraduate Creative Writing Magazines.,1972 Kenneth Patchen Award for Poetry, University of Arkansas
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PUBLICATIONS
POEMS (Magazines) {selected} Abraxus,
The Anglican Theological Review, The Chariton Review, The Chicago
Tribune. The Exquisite Corpse, The
Formalist, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine
Arts, The Hamline Journal, Hayden Ferry Review, The Journal, Kansas Quarterly, Light, The Little Magazine, The Nation, Nerve, The New Orleans Review, The
New York Quarterly Passages North, Poetry,
POEMS (Anthologies) {selected} In My
Neighborhood: Poetry of Wisconsin Cities, Friends of Wisconsin
Press, Intimate Kisses:
Poetry of Sexual Pleasure, New World Press, Spilt Verse: Poetry of Separation and Divorce.
Midmarch Arts, New York World Poetry, Norton, Cross-Connect: The Best of 1997,
University of Pennsylvania, Northwest Review: Thirtieth
Anniversary Issue, The Best of 20
Years of Cream City Review, Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Poetic Forms,
L.S.U. Press,
75 Poems On Retirement, , University of Iowa Press …
.FICTION
(Magazines) Carve Magazine:,
The Paumanok Review, Vestal
Review, Slow Trains Literary Journal, The
Arabesque Review: An
International Journal of Culture and Dialogue.
FICTION (Anthologies) The
WritersNet Anthology of Prose Fiction, E2ink-1:
the Best of the Online Journals 2002 ,Bar Stories ,You Have Time
for This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories, Best
American Flash Fiction of the 21st Century, "FAMILIES: The Frontline
of Pluralism,"
BOOKS (selected)
Eating the Menu: A Contemporary
American Poetry 1970-74, W.C. Brown/J. Kendall Hunt, 1974; (editor).
Idle Trade: Early
Poems, Wolfsong Press, 1979.
Upriver: An Anthology of
Wisconsin Poetry, Upriver Press, 1979; (editor).
Upriver: Wisconsin Poetry and Prose, Upriver
Press, 1981; (editor).
The Darling Poems, Red Weather
Press, 1982.
Upriver: Wisconsin Poetry and Prose, Upriver
Press, 1984; (editor).
Upriver: Wisconsin Poetry and Prose, Upriver
Press, 1990; (editor).
Wisconsin Poetry, Wisconsin Academy of Arts and
Sciences (editor), Summer 1991.(Reprinted 1993).
This Day, Juniper Press, 1993.
Why That Man Talks That Way, Upriver
Press, 1994.
Upriver: Wisconsin Poetry and Prose, Upriver
Press, 1995; (editor with Frank Smoot).
Higher
Learning: Reading and Writing About College, Prentice Hall
(editor with Patti See) 2001, 2nd ed. 2005
Pity the
World: Poems New & Selected, Plain View Press, 2005.
University of Arkansas. University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, St. Thomas
College, Loyola University,
Bowling Green
University, Washington University, Koreyo University, Yonsei University Freemantle Arts Center, Perth,
Australia, “Writer’s Week,” Australian
Biannual International Arts Festival, Adelaide, S.A., Queensland University, Brisbane, “The Loft,” Mottly Gallery, Ripon College, Canterbury Bookstore, Madison,
WI, Jean Feraca’s “Wisconsin Idea Network,” r
Live At Five, Eau Claire Regional Arts Center, Chippewa
Valley Book Festival