C.V.
EDUCATION
2010 MFA University of Virginia, Poetry, Charlottesville, VA
2002 MFA University of Texas, Poetry and Screenwriting, Austin, TX
1997 BA Swarthmore College, English Literature, Phi Beta Kappa, Swarthmore, PA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2011-Present Wichita State University, Department of English, Wichita, KS
2011-2017 Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)
2016-2023 Director of Creative Writing
2017-Present Associate Professor
2009-2010 University of Virginia, Department of English, Charlottesville, VA
Lecturer
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2021. The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse (poems, hybrid), Negative Capability Press
2014 Nude Descending an Empire (poems), Pitt Poetry Series
2005 Body of the World (poems), Ausable Press/Copper Canyon Press
Selected Periodicals
2023 EcoTheo Review, “Signs and Visions”
Lubavitch International, ““American Mystic”
2021 EcoTheo Review, “Green House: Song at 9,000 Feet”
Dream Pop Journal, “Plastic Is a Plastic Rhyme for Loss,” “The Book of Runes,” “The Alphabet of Care”
Counterclock Review, “My Mother’s Unpublished Letter/s”
2020 Cincinnati Review, "Triptych"
Pleiades, "White Trash"
Love's Executive Order, "Hourglass"
2019 Massachusetts Review, "Postcards from Babel"
The Collagist, "Animation"
New Sinews, ”The Book of Runes, part 3,” “The Book of Runes, Part VI,” “Return,” “Dancing of Our Own Erasure,” “Revision” • 2019
2018 Tupelo Quarterly, long excerpt from The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse
2016 The Kenyon Review, “Wikipedia, or the Late Style of Orpheus,” “You’d Have to Be,” “Channels,” “The Afterlife”
2015 Cincinnati Review, “#GodIs2.0”
Poetry Daily, “Song: Infernal”
Third Coast, “Dear Customer”
Handsome Magazine, “Home” and “Orpheus 2”
2014 The New Republic, “[Pagans]”
Poetry Daily, “The Book of Endings”
OmniVerse, “[Orpheus]”
2013 Narrative Magazine, “Snowed-In, Little Mountain Valley"
Diode, “American Mystic” and “In My Solitude”
The Tupelo Quarterly, “[First Taxi],” “[Friend],” and “[Wish]”
Verse Daily, “The Book of Revelation”
Matter Monthly, “The Book of Things” and “Figure, with Multitude”
2012 Hayden’s Ferry Review, “The Book of Revelation”
Crab Orchard Review, “The Book of Fruit”
AGNI, “Madagascar”
2011 The Hudson Review, “Celebration in Autumn.”
Poetry International, chapbook feature of eight poems
2010 Michigan Quarterly Review, “The Book of Poetry”
2009 Poetry Daily, “Home”
New Letters, “The Book of Wishes”
Cincinnati Review, “Home”
Beloit Poetry Journal, “Suits of Men,” “History,” “Monopoly,” and “Song”
2008 The New Republic, “Song: Infernal”
Crab Orchard Review, “Slugs Mating”
2007 Green Mountains Review, “The Book of Endings” and “Past Tense”
Meridian, “The Book of Spring” and “Paper”
2006 AGNI (online), “Jataka Tales”
Orion, “Still Life with Lies and Truth”
Bat City Review, “Background,” “Next,” and “Realism: A Landscape of the Body”
Poetry International, “Original Sin,” “Sunday Morning,” and “The Undressing Room”
2005 Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, “Notes to Organic Knowing” and "Sonnet in A Minor"
Atlanta Review, “Mounting: A Study on the Populous”
2004 Many Mountains Moving, “Arc”
AGNI, “Coda: For Whom the Bell Tolls”
Mid-American Review, “Accident”
2002 The Florida Review, “Anonymous,” “Hologram,” “John 3:16,” and “Wedding Song”
2001 Spoon River Poetry Review, “Florida Night” and “Waking with Chloe”
2000 The Bitter Oleander, “Source”
1999 Midwest Quarterly, “Here in the Mountains”
1998 New Orleans Review, “The Lost World”
Book Reviews
2009 Virginia Quarterly Review “Of this World by Joseph Stroud”
2007 Gulf Coast Review “An Almost Pure Empty Walking by Tryfon Tolides”
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES:
2023 Yetzirah Conference Fellow
2020 Anne Halley Prize, Massachusetts Review
2018 Yaddo, Residency Fellowship
Key West Literary Seminars Residency
Escape2Create, Seaside, Florida
2017 Ucross Residency Fellowship
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2015 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship
2014 The Studios at Key West, Residency, Key West, Florida
Key West Literary Seminars, Residency, Key West, Florida
2013 Brush Creek Arts, Residency, Wyoming
Corporation of Yaddo, Fellowship Residency
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Awards, First Prize ($7500)
2012 Wichita State University ARCS Summer Research Grant
Santa Fe Arts Institute, Fellowship Residency
Djerassi, Fellowship Residency
2011 Corporation of Yaddo, Fellowship Residency
2010 Vermont Studio Center, Fellowship Residency
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fellowship Residency
2008 Henry Hoyns Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2008-2010.
2006 The Dobie Paisano Fellowship, Texas Institute of Letters and The University of Texas
Foreword Magazine Poetry Book of the Year, finalist (Body of the World)
2002 Florida Review Editor’s Poetry Prize
2000 Ruth Lily Fellowship, finalist
1999 James Michener Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 1999-2002
SELECTED READINGS AND PERFORMANCES
2023 Yetzirah Conference Panel Reading
2022 AWP Conference • “Erasure Poetics” Panel Reading
Swarthmore College • Swarthmore Writers’ Week Festival, Remote Reading
2021 Massachusetts Review • Anne Halley Prize Reading
Writing Now, Reading Now Series • Wichita State
2018 Repertory Theatre • Seaside Florida • 2018
2017 AWP Conference • “The Poetics of Empire,” Panel Reading, Washington D.C. • 2017
Bethel College, Newton, KS
2016 Swarthmore College Campus Reading, Swarthmore, PA
2015 Versum Poetry in Translation Festival, Featured Reader, Budapest, Hungary
2014 AWP Conference, Writing on the Great Plains, Seattle, WA
Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL
Iowa State University, Environmental Imagination Campus Reading Series, Ames, IA
Colorado State University Campus Reading, Colorado Springs, CO
The Bridge Reading Series, Charlottesville, VA
Writing Now, Reading Now, Wichita State, KS
Wichita Museum of Art (talk), Wichita, KS
2014 AWP Conference, Writing on the Great Plains, Seattle, WA
2012 Salina Reading Series, Salina, KS
Wichita State Reading Series, Wichita, KS
2011 Beyond Baroque Reading Series, Venice, CA
SWAG Reading Series, Waynesboro, VA
2008 Utter Reading Series, Austin, Texas
2007 University of Texas at Austin, Campus Poetry Reading
2006 SOMOS, Summer Reading Series, Taos, New Mexico, Featured Poet
Austin International Poetry Festival, Featured Reader and Workshop Leader
AWP Conference, Austin, Texas, Ausable Press Reading
2005 Taos Livewire Reading Series, Taos, New Mexico
Writer’s on Radio, KRZA, Colorado
COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF FOOLS: AN ESSAY IN MEMOIR AND VERSE
Darling, Kristina Marie (Interview). “‘Into the Underworld…’: A Conversation with Sam Taylor about Poetry, Hybridity, and Erasure.” Tupelo Quarterly 26 (2022)
Dungy, Camille. “Fifteen Poetry Recommendations about Grief and Mourning for Our Darkest Nights.” Orion Magazine Online (December 8, 2021)
Henry, Patrick Thomas. “Plastic Ecologies. Plastic Lives. Sam Taylor’s The Book of Fools.” Heavy Feather Review (March 7,2022)
Imbriglio, Catherine. “Broken Hearts and a Broken Earth.” Poetry International (2022)
Low, Lisa. “Moments of Revelation: Sam Taylor’s Book of Fools.” Tupelo Quarterly (October, 2021)
Nickels, Z.L. “The Book of Fools.” Colorado Review (2022)
Penne, Amy. “Prose Is What We Add to Myth.” Green Mountains Review (2022)
Rodriguez, Esteban (Interview). “An Interview with Sam Taylor.” EcoTheo (2022)
Troy, Tiffany (Interview). “‘Dancing on the Grave of the Fucked World’: An Interview with Sam Taylor about The Book of Fools.” Matter 31 (July, 2022)
COMMENTARY ON NUDE DESCENDING AN EMPIRE
Keplinger, David. “Sam Taylor’s Nude Descending an Empire: Eurydice in Evening Gown.” Poetry International (2015)
Reutter, G Emil. “Nude Descending an Empire.” Fox Chase Review (2014)
Seiferle, Rebecca. “An Interview with Sam Taylor.” The Drunken Boat. (2014)
Spaar, Lisa Russ. “A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry by James Tate and Sam Taylor. LA Review of Books, May 20, 2016.
Troast, Andrew. “Sam Taylor Struggles to Speak Chinese.” PBS NewsHour. (2014)
COMMENTARY ON BODY OF THE WORLD
Brown, James. “Novelist as Poet: Essential Moderns.” Washington Times 23 Nov. 2005.
Grotz, Jennifer. “Writing on White Air.” Boston Review 31:1 (2006).
Hegnauer, Lilah. “Body of the World.” Virginia Quarterly Review (2006): 284-285.
Hegnauer, Lilah. “Body of the World.” Meridian 16 (2006).
Kaminsky, Ilya. “Celebrations.” Web Del Sol Review of Books (2006).
Maclay, Sarah. “Body of the World.” Poetry International 11 (2007).
Matthews, Sebastian. “Body of the World.” Asheville Poetry Review (2008).
Peschiera, Pablo. “Pablo Peschiera on Sam Taylor.” H_ngm_n (2006).
Stewart, D. Antwan. “Body of the World.” Cutbank Poetry Blogspot (2006).
COURSES TAUGHT
Wichita State University
ENGL 805: Graduate MFA Poetry Workshop
ENGL 303/403: Undergraduate Poetry Workshop (beginning and advanced)
ENGL 285: Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 513: Practically Surreal: Surrealism in American Poetry
ENGL 533: Contemporary Aesthetics
ENGL 516: Major Authors: T.S. Eliot
ENGL 310: Nature of Poetry
ENGL 232: Ecology and the Wild in American Literature
ENGL 230: Exploring Literature
University of Virginia
ENWR 2300: Poetry Workshop
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2011-Current English Department Policy Committee, Wichita State University
2011-Current Creative Writing Committee, Wichita State University
2016-2023 Director of Creative Writing, Wichita State University
PRIMARY TEACHING INTERESTS
Poetry workshops and craft courses, modern and contemporary American poetry, international poetry in translation, poetics and aesthetics, ecology and ecopoetics, political poetry, mystical poetry
SECONDARY TEACHING INTERESTS
New media and hyrbid genres; word art; uncreative writing; creative nonfiction; film and popular culture; the lyric tradition in folk music, pop music, and hip-hop; screenwriting; songwriting; small press editing and publishing
