Marilyn L. Taylor photo
photo by Patrick Manning

CONTACT

mlt@uwm.edu

2825 E. Newport Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53211

mlt-poet.com

Audio interview on Public Radio available at site listed above
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Marilyn L. Taylor
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

BIO

Marilyn L. Taylor, Ph.D., was the city of Milwaukee's Poet Laureate for 2004-2005. A former adjunct professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she currently presents lectures, workshops and readings to clubs, organizations and colleges throughout the region. She teaches regularly at All Writers Studio in Waukesha, Lawrence University's Bjorklunden Seminar Program in Door County, Wisconsin, and elsewhere.

Marilyn is the author of six collections of poetry. A chapbook titled The Seven Very Liberal Arts was published in 2006 in a limited edition by Aralia Press, a fine letterpress publisher located in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Her latest full-length book is titled Subject to Change, and was published in 2004 by David Robert Books. Marilyn's work has also appeared in many poetry anthologies and journals, including The American Scholar, The Evansville Review, Smartish Pace, The Formalist and Poetry magazine's 90th Anniversary Anthology. Marilyn has received three Pushcart Prize nominations, and was nominated for the 2005 Poets' Prize. She was the winner of the 2003 Dogwood Prize, and other recent contests sponsored by Passager, The Ledge, and GSU Review magazines. Marilyn also contributes bi-monthly craft-related columns on the art of poetry to The Writer magazine, where she serves as a contributing editor. She is available for individual private coaching.

PUBLICATIONS

The Seven Very Liberal Arts , Aralia Press, 2006 - $20.00
Subject to Change, David Robert Books, 2004 - $16.00
Exit Only: 21 Poems, Anamnesis Press, 2001 - $5.00
Marilyn Taylor's Greatest Hits, 1986-2000, Pudding House Press, 2001 - $5.00
Shadows Like These , William Caxton, 1994 - $10.00
Troika 1: The Accident of Light, Thorntree Press, 1991- $5.00

To order, please contact Marilyn directly. Subject to Change is also available at Harry W. Schwartz Books and Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, and Amazon.com

OTHER POEMS, REVIEWS & PROFILES
poemtree.com/ Taylor.htm
famouspoetsandpoems.com
smartishpace.com/home/dynamic.html?reviews_lockward_taylor.html

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BOOKINGS

2008

January-May
Eight Wednesday evenings facilitating a workshop at Redbird Studios in Bay View. Details are at redbirdstudios.com

February
Participant in the annual "Love & Lust" reading February 15th at 6:30 PM at A Room of One's Own Bookstore in Madison

April
Participant in reading from new anthology by Red Hen Press titled Letters to the World: Poetry from the Wom-Po Listserv April 13th at 2:00 PM with Susan Elbe, David Graham, Karla Huston, Shoshauna Shy and Wendy Vardaman at Avol's Bookstore in Madison

June
Panel participant on "The Art of Doggerel" June 4-7 at the West Chester Poetry Conference in West Chester, Pennsylvania and facilitator on June 25th from 6:30-8:30 for the Poetry Critique Group at Redbird Studio in Bayview

July
Facilitator on July 30th from 6:30-8:30 for the Poetry Critique Group at Redbird Studio in Bayview

August
Facilitating a workshop "Getting a Word in Edgewise" at the National Poetry Slam Festival on August 8th from 1:00-2:30 at the Humanities Building on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, participant at the Poet Laureate roundtable for high schoolers August 20th at Artworks for Milwaukee, and facilitator on August 27th from 6:30-8:30 for the Poetry Critique Group at Redbird Studio in Bayview

September
Facilitator on September 2nd, 16th and 30th from 6:30-8:30 for the Poetry Critique Group at Redbird Studio in Bayview and conducting a five-day poetry workshop on diction and word-choice titled "Getting a Word in Edgewise" September 21-26 at Lawrence University's Bjorklunden Seminar Center in Bailey's Harbor
lawrence.edu/dept/bjork/

October
Facilitator on October 7th from 6:30-8:30 for the Poetry Critique Group at Redbird Studio in Bayview and from October 16th through November 2nd, Associate Artist residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida

November
Facilitator on November 4th and 18th from 6:30-8:30 for the Poetry Critique Group at Redbird Studio in Bayview

December
Facilitator on December 2nd and 16th from 6:30-8:30 for the Poetry Critique Group at Redbird Studio in Bayview

    POEM

READING THE OBITUARIES

Now the Barbaras have begun to die,
trailing their older sisters to the grave,
the Helens, Margies, Nans--who said goodbye
just days ago, it seems, taking their leave
a step or two behind the hooded girls
who bloomed and withered with the century--
the Dorotheas, Eleanors and Pearls
now swaying on the edge of memory.
Soon, soon, the scythe wll sweep for Jeanne
and Angela, Patricia and Diane--
pause, and return for Karen and Christine
while Susan spends a sleepless night again.
Ah, Debra, how can you be growing old?
Jennifer, Michelle, your hands are cold.

Marilyn L. Taylor

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