Charles Taylor Jr. (born 1943) is an American author. He was born in Minneapolis, but lived most of his life in Texas. He no longer teaches creative writing at Texas A&M and started a small press called Slough Press, publishing from 1973 to 2011.[citation needed] His contribution to building the literature scene in Austin, Texas, includes activities as both a writer and publisher. He published leading poets, fiction, and non-fiction writers, whose books received numerous awards and were sometimes later published by larger presses. His poetry collection What do You Want, Blood? received the 1988 Austin Book Award.[citation needed] He has taught in the NEA Poets-in-the-Schools Program and was CETA Poet-in-Residence for the City of Salt Lake.[citation needed]
Along with his ex-wife, Pat Littledog, Taylor co-operated one of the Paperbacks Plus Books in Austin, Texas, from 1980 to 1988. The store became an important literary center for the Southwest sponsoring literary readings and plays as well as serving as a home for Slough Press.[citation needed] Business owners John and Marquetta Tilton of Dallas opened several store locations run by famous Texas poets and writers who had not yet achieved widespread notoriety: poet Dr. Ricardo Sánchez in San Antonio and Dr. Hedwig Gorski's infamous Voltaire's Basement bookstore in downtown Austin. All branches of Paperbacks Plus allowed serious poets to live with their families on the store premises while providing a small income managing or selling at the location.[citation needed] Each became a hub of literary and performance activities across generations and styles nurturing the offbeat talents and lifestyles Central Texas is known for. These activities, venues, and people set the stage during the late 1970s and 80s for Austin Poetry Slam scenes.[1]
College Instructor
Taylor retired as Coordinator of Creative Writing in the English Department of Texas A&M University at College Station teaching creative writing there for 21 years.[2]
He specialized in creative writing (poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction), composition and technical writing for international students, and literature of the Beat Movement.[citation needed]
A Long Line of Joy, edited by W.J. Robinson (Long Beach), contains poetry and an essay by Chuck Taylor.
Travois (Thorps Springs Press, Houston Contemporary Arts Museum, 1976).
The Texas Anthology, edited by Paul Ruffin (Sam Houston State University Literary Review, 1979).
Texas Poetry (Browder Springs, 1995).
Mondo James Dean (St. Martins, 1996).
Texas Short Stories (Browder Springs, 1997).
Suddenly (Martin House, 1998).
Texas Short Stories II (Browder Springs, 2000).
Journal articles
"Diane Wakowski's Greed, or One Bourgeois Poet to Another," Big Boulevard, III, 12–16.
"Writing about Writing at La Tuna Federal Prison," Southwest Art Forum, September 1977.
"The Workshop Way to Learning: Linking Aesthetic Experience to Creativity and Beginning Performance in the Classroom," Naomi Katsura (Mie University) and Dr. Chuck Taylor (Texas A&M University), republished in the 2008 Mie University Journal of Research, (2008) 71–79 from The Proceedings in the 6th Annual Meeting of Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, 2008. 1.11
"Sandra Cisneros, Outlaw Poet," Voices, Volume III (2008), 26–30.
"The Forgotten Poetry of Sandra Cisneros," Journal of Texas Women Writers, I, I (2009)
Short stories (not published in books or anthologies)
"Dreams Moving Through the World," The Washington Review, 3, i (1977), 15–17.
"A Case of Biological Superiority," The Mill, 3 (1977), 34–36.
"My Lover's Husband," Street Bagel, 14, 1–5.
"Paranoia Strikes Deep," The Volcano Review, 6, 45–60.
"To the Monastery," Bogg, 46, 15–18.
"Last Scholar,” Cellar Door, II, 5–7.
"Guatemala Water on the Brain,” Maelstrom Review, 6, 7-ll.
"The Story of Linda,” American Fiction Review, 1979.
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