Bruce Taylor

Bruce Taylor is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Pity the World: Poems New & Selected (Plain View Press, 2005), The Longest You’ve Lived Anywhere: New & Selected Poems 2013 (Upriver Press, 2012), and In Other Words (Upriver Press, 2014). He has edited eight anthologies, including Eating the Menu: A Contemporary American Poetry 1970-74 (1974), Wisconsin Poetry (1991), and Higher Learning, 3rd ed. (2011, coedited with Patti See).

His poetry and translations have appeared in such places as Able Muse, Chicago Review, Columbia Review, the Cortland Review, The Formalist, Literary Salt, Light, the Nation, the New York Quarterly, The Northwest Review, Poetry, Rattle, Rosebud, Slow Trains, Verse Wisconsin, Your Daily Poem, and on the Writer's Almanac. He has won awards and fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board, Fulbright-Hayes, the Council of Wisconsin Writers, the Bush Artist Foundation and the Excellence In Scholarship award from UWEC. He is poet laureate of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.