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girls play a better bass
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November 17, 2011
Richard Tayson's poem "What Stops Me Sometimes Doctor" won 2nd place in the Smokin Words Poetry Contest from the DC Center for LGBT Community. Click "Smokin Words" link below for more information.
Tayson has advanced to candidacy for the doctoral degree in English and is currently ABD. He is on schedule to complete his his dissertation, Ghostly Language and Liminal Experience: William Blake, Romantic Discourse, and American Punk Sound, in May 2012. He hopes to access his wide range of interests--in American contemporary poetics, eighteenth-century English poetics, American popular culture centered on underground music of 1970s New York--and his experience teaching composition and creative writing in the professorship application process.
Richard Tayson's previous books are The World Underneath, The Apprentice of Fever , which won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and Look Up for Yes (co-authored with Julia Tavalaro). A New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and winner of a Pushcart Prize, Tayson's essays and reviews appear in recent issues of Viginia Quarterly Review, the Academy of American Poets website, Pleiades, and other publications. Tayson is a Chancellors Fellow in the PhD program in English at City University of New York's Graduate Center.
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List of Selected Readings given by Tayson:
New York University, Columbia University, New School University, City University of New York’s Graduate Center, Rutgers University, Kent State University, Colorado State University, University of Northern Colorado, University of Colorado at Denver, Queensborough Community College, National Arts Club, Bowery Poetry Club, Mid-Manhattan Library, Princeton Library, Queens Library (Briarwood), Queens Library (Jackson Heights), Highland Park Library, Moe Green Poetry Hour, National Public Radio’s Poetry Off the Shelf, St. John the Divine, Cornelia Street Café, KGB Bar, Dixon Place, Barnes and Noble Astor Place, Barnes and Noble Chelsea, Living Theater, Bryant Park, Blake Society (London), Northeast Modern Language Association, Modern Language Association
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READING / PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
Rochester, New York
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
"Making Sense(s) of William Blake"
(for info on submitting abstracts, write to Tayson at taysonr@newschool.edu).
Hyatt Regency, March 15-18, 2012
Panel Chair: Richard Tayson
further information: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/index.html
Recent Readings
New York
The Rainbow Book Fair
Saturday, March 26, 2011
The LGBT Community Center
New Jersey
"Twentieth-Century Blake" panel
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Rutgers University
London, England
William Blake Society
June 8, 2010
25th Anniversary of the Blake Society
and in support of the Blake gravesite project
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