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Richard Tayson [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Public address: 
New York, NY
New York US
Email: 
taysonr@newschool.edu
Bio: 

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.

 

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, Carolyn Forché, Torrin A. Greathouse, Wayne Koestenbaum, Wallace Stevens, Yeats, Jen Winston, Jorie Graham, Dana Levin, Jean Genet, David Wojnarowicz, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rilke, William Blake, Sapphire, Greg Mania, Sally Wen Mao, Mary Karr, Kenny Fries, Linda Gregg, Pat Parker, Paul Monette, John Keats, Toni Morrison, Edgar Gomez, Ai, Marianne Moore, Annie Dillard, Marcel Proust, Diane Seuss, Roland Barthes, William S. Burroughs, Ocean Vuong, James Baldwin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Brenda Hillman, Rita Dove, Dennis Cooper, Maggie Anderson, Joan Larkin, Alicia Ostriker, Kathy Acker, John Milton, Emily Brönte, Ian McEwan, Henry Miller, Shane McCrae, Natlie Diaz
Twitter/X: 
@RTaysonWriter
Born in: 
Victorville, CA
California
Raised in: 
Eagle Point, OR
Oregon
RSS feed: 
http://www.richardtayson.com/ [2]
Website: 
https://www.richardtayson.com [3]
Prizes won: 

The Wick Poetry Prize (1997) Pushcart Prize (1996) New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2003) Chancellor’s Fellowship from the City University of New York (2006) DC Center for the LGBT Community’s Smoking Words Poetry Competition, 2nd place (2011) Prairie Schooner’s Edward Stanley and Bernice Slote awards (1997 & 2004)

Education: 
New York University
Agent/Agency name: 
Tom Miller of Liza Dawson and Associates
What I'm reading now: 
Mrs. Dalloway by Viginia Woolf
Born to Be Public by Greg Mania
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
To 2040 by Jorie Graham
Cain Named the Animal: Poems by Shane McCrae
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 by Carl Phillips
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff
George Michael: A Life by James Gavin
Writers Retreats: 
Napa Valley Writers’ Conference
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Disability
LGBTQ

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