CURRICULUM VITAE (selected) 

 

Name:            Bruce Taylor

E-Mail:           taylorb@uwec.edu

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.

 

POETRY READINGS {selected}

 

 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