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Sam Taylor is the author of three books of poems, Body of the World (Ausable Press, now available from Copper Canyon), Nude Descending an Empire (Pitt Poetry Series), and, forthcoming, The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse (Negative Capability Press). His work most frequently explores themes of mysticism, social justice, ecology, sexuality, and the mystery of the world, and his poems have appeared in such journals as The New Republic, AGNI, and The Kenyon Review. He is a Professor in the MFA program at Wichita State University. His work has been recognized with the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, the Dobie Paisano Fellowship, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, the Anne Halley Prize, and many residency fellowships, including from Yaddo, Ucross, and the Vermont Studio Center. A native of Miami, Florida, Taylor has also lived in Texas, Virginia, California, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico, where he served for three years as the caretaker of a remote wilderness refuge that was snowed-in during the winter without phone, electricity, or internet. |