Richard Tayson

Richard Tayson is the author of the poetry books The World Underneath and The Apprentice of Fever, which won the Wick Poetry Prize. He is the co-author of the memoir Look Up for Yes, which was featured on Dateline NBC and became a bestseller in Germany.  His poems have appeared widely in domestic and international journals and anthologies, including Pushcart Prize XXI, I Do / I Don’t:  Queers on Marriage, Best of Prairie Schooner, Jugular Defences:  An AIDS Anthology (England), Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and others.  His nonfiction has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Pleiades, The Gay and Lesbian Review, Everywoman Her Own Theology: On the Poetry of Alicia Suskin Ostriker, and other publications.  He recently completed a memoir, Gone Again:  My Odyssey Through Song, Addiction and Awakening.  Tayson is the recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, The Beatrice Slote and Edward Stanley awards from Prairie Schooner, and the Chancellor's Fellowship from the Graduate Center, where he earned his Ph.D.  Richard Tayson teaches poetry and creative nonfiction for the New School's Writing Program.