Queensborough Spotlight on Creative Writers: Richard Tayson
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Channel: CUNYQueensborough · 2010 · Education
May 5, 2010 Richard Tayson's second book of poetry is The World Underneath (Kent State University Press, 2008). His first book of poetry, The Apprentice of Fever (Kent State University Press, 1998), won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Tayson's other awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Prarie Schooner's Edward Stanley Award, and a Pushcart Prize. His poems appear in over fifty publications in five countries, including the Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review and American Poetry: The Next Generation. His coauthored book of non-fiction, Look Up for Yes (Viking-Penguin, 1998), appeared on bestseller lists in Germany, and has been included in Reader's Digest's Today's Best Nonfiction in the United States and Australia. Tayson is current a Chancellor's Fellow in the Ph.D. program in English at City University of New York's Graduate Center.
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