Marilyn Taylor

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Marilyn L. Taylor (born October 2, 1939) is an American poet with six published collections of poems. Taylor's poems have also appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including The American Scholar , Able Muse , Measure , Smartish Pace , The Formalist , and Poetry magazine's 90th Anniversary Anthology. Her second full-length collection, Subject to Change (David Robert Books, 2004), was nominated for the Poets' Prize. She served as the city of Milwaukee's Poet Laureate in 2004 and 2005, [1] and was appointed Poet Laureate of the state of Wisconsin for 2009 and 2010. [2] [3] She also served for five years as a contributing editor for The Writer Magazine. A retired Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, she taught poetry and poetics for the Department of English and later for the Honors College. She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she presents readings and facilitates workshops throughout Wisconsin and beyond.

Contents

Books

Anthologies (selected)

Journals (selected)

"Mixed Signals"

"Studying the Menu" "Late November"

"Home Again, Home Again"

"Cover Letter" "Trocha-spondaloopian Sonnet"

"The Seven Very Liberal Arts"

"Rondeau: Old Woman With Cat" "Summer Sapphics" "Reading the Obituaries"

"After Twenty Years" "The Native"

"Notes from the Good-Girl Chronicles, 1963"

"The Amazing Perseverance of the Sandhill Crane" "Reading the Dispatch"

"Stranger Things"

"Sonnet Against Form"

"Another Thing I Ought to Be Doing" "Rondeau: Old Woman with Cat"

"Contingency"

"Memo to a Late Baby" "Father Goose" "The Geniuses Among Us" "The Collector" "Cover Letter" "Three Lies: a Glose"

"The Amazing Perseverance of the Sandhill Crane" "First Day in London"

"Reading the Obituaries"

"On Learning, Late in Life, that Your Mother Was a Jew"

"To Lucy, Who Came First"

"Oh Lord, How I'd Love to Be Irish"

"Explication of a True Story" "Dispatch from the Cold War, 1951" "On Learning, Late in Life, that Your Mother Was a Jew" "Always Questions" "After the Countdown"

"November in Verona, Wisconsin"

"No Way"

"Nice Try" "Latter-day Letter to ESVM" "Again"

"The Aging Huntress Speaks to Her Reflection" "Agnostic's Villanelle" "I Miss You and I'm Drunk"

"In Other News" "The Blue Water Buffalo" "Subject to Change"

"To My Neighbor John Who Is Completely Happy" "Rondeau: Old Woman with Cat" "Reverie with Fries"

"At the Cocktail Party" "Been Thinking"

"The Geniuses Among Us" "Subject to Change"

"1949" "Chemotherapy"

"Sarcoma"

"Aunt Eudora's Harlequin Romance"

"Notice from the Sweet Chariot Funeral Parlor"

"Inventing the Love Poets"

"The Geniuses Among Us"

"Summer Saphhics"

"Voice Mail for Wallace Stevens" "To a Cat Gone Blind in his Eighteenth Summer" "Ballade of the Open Mike"

"In Other News"

"Aunt Eudora's Harlequin Romance"

"Crickets: a Late Chorale"

"Rondeau: Old Woman with Cat" "Poem for a 75th Birthday"

"The Geniuses Among Us"

"Any Constellation"

"Glass Under Glass"

"To the Mother of a Dead Marine" "The Blue Water Buffalo"

"Sappho Under the Arches"

"On Learning, Late in Life, that Your Mother was a Jew"

"Surveying the Damage"

"The Wilderness Has No Straight Lines"

"Crickets: a late Chorale"

"Valentine for a Bashful Boy"

"Cover Letter"

"Another Reason Never to Live North of 43 Degrees Latitude, Especially Near Lake Michigan"

"To My Neighbor John, Who Is Completely Happy"

"Star Wars"

"St. Patrick's Day:a True Confession"

"Subject to Change"

"Home Again, Home Again"

"Aunt Eudora's Harlequin Romance"

"What They Don't Know" "The Showdown" "The Vow" "To My Neighbor John, Who is Completely Happy" "The Lovers at Eighty"

"What Lips" (a collaboration)

Awards and prizes (selected)

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References

  1. 1 2 "Past Milwaukee Poets Laureate · MPL". www.mpl.org. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
  2. ↑ "Marilyn L. Taylor | Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission". wisconsinpoetlaureate.org. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
  3. ↑ Armenti, Peter. "Research Guides: U.S. State Poets Laureate: A Resource Guide: South Dakota-Wyoming". guides.loc.gov. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
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