Poet & Writer
Richard Tayson's books are The World Underneath, The Apprentice of Fever (winner of the Wick Poetry Prize), and Look Up for Yes (co-authored with Julia Tavalaro).
Tayson has twice been a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow and has received Prairie Schooner’s Edward Stanley and Bernice Slote awards.
His poems and nonfiction appear in Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XXI, the Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, Painted Bride Quarterly and over fifty publications in the United States, Germany, England, Australia, and Canada.
Tayson has recently completed a memoir, GONE AGAIN: TRAVELS THROUGH SONG, BINGES, AND QUEER STATES OF BEING.
FREELANCE Editor / Tutor
A freelance editor of poetry and nonfiction manuscripts, Richard Tayson has worked with numerous poets and writers whose works he edited prior to publication. Clients successes include Anne Babson's Polite Occasions and White Trash Pantheon; Becky Thompson's Survivors of the Yoga Mat and Zero is the (W)hole I Fall Into Each Night, which was chosen as an editor's selection by Main Street Rag; Jennifer Markell’s Samsara, which was named a must-read book by of poetry by the Massachusetts Book Awards; and Michael Montlack's Cool Limbo.
Tayson edits poetry and nonfiction. To schedule an editorial session, see the Editorials page.
Educator
Richard Tayson (B.A. Colorado State University, M.A. New York University, Ph.D. CUNY Graduate Center) created the courses Poetry and the Creative Process and The Art of Song Lyrics, which he teaches--along with other poetry workshops--at New School University’s Writing Program.