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    • The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse
    • Nude Descending an Empire
    • Body of the World
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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            Counterclock Review, “My Mother’s Unpublished Letter/s”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
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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





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    • Body of the World
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