Richard Tayson

Biography

Richard Tayson’s second book of poetry, The World Underneath is forthcoming in 2007 (Kent State); his first book of poetry, The Apprentice of Fever (Kent State, 1998), won the Wick Poetry Prize. His other awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Prairie Schooner’s Edward Stanley Award, and a Pushcart Prize.

See Work

POETRY / Summer 2006

First Night

By Richard Tayson
POETRY / Summer 2006

Dark Theater

By Richard Tayson
ESSAYS / Spring 2005

The Casualties of Walt Whitman

By Richard Tayson

In a journal I kept the summer before moving to New York in 1990 to study creative writing at NYU, I find an odd entry about Walt Whitman. I had been reading D. H. Lawrence’s essay “Whitman,” published in 1923, and I agreed with his...