Bruce Taylor, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, has taught Creative Writing & Literature for 40 years and is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Pity The World, and the forthcoming The Longest You've Lived Anywhere: Poems New and Selected 2013 . He is editor of eight anthologies including Wisconsin Poetry and, with Patti See, Higher Learning: Reading and Writing About College ( 3rd ed. 2011.) His poetry and translations have appeared in such places as Able Muse, The Chicago Review, The Columbia Review, The Cortland Review, The Nation, The New York Quarterly, Poetry, Rattle, Rosebud and on Writer's Almanac as read by Garrison Keillor. Taylor has lectured at Jinan University in Zhuhai, People's Republic of China, been a Senior Fulbright Fellow at Koreyo University, Seoul, South Korea, a member of the Literature Panel of the Wisconsin Arts Board and host of The Writer's Workshop: Wisconsin ETN and a program scholar and consultant for the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the L.E. Phillips Library, the Annenberg/CPB Project and Drexel's University First Year Experience Program. He is the current Poet Laureate of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He has won awards and Fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board, Fulbright-Hayes, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Council of Wisconsin Writers, the Bush Artist Foundation and the Excellence In Scholarship award from UWEC . He is the current Poet Laureate of Eau Claire, Wisconsin He has won awards and Fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board, Fulbright-Hayes, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Council of Wisconsin Writers, the Bush Artist Foundation, and the Excellence in Scholarship Award from UWEC. He lives in Lake Hallie, Wisconsin with his wife, the writer Patti See