Marilyn Taylor

Marilyn L. Taylor (born October 2, 1939) is an American poet with six published collections of poems.

"Notes from the Good-Girl Chronicles, 1963"

"The Amazing Perseverance of the Sandhill Crane"

"Reading the Dispatch"

"Stranger Things"

"Sonnet Against Form"

"Another Thing I Ought to Be Doing"

"Rondeau: Old Woman with Cat"

"Contingency"

"Memo to a Late Baby"

"Father Goose"

"The Geniuses Among Us"

"The Collector"

"Cover Letter"

"Three Lies: a Glose"

"The Amazing Perseverance of the Sandhill Crane"

"First Day in London"

"Reading the Obituaries"

"On Learning, Late in Life, that Your Mother Was a Jew"

"To Lucy, Who Came First"

"Oh Lord, How I'd Love to Be Irish"

"Explication of a True Story"

Taylor's poems have also appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including The American Scholar, Able Muse, Measure, Smartish Pace, The Formalist, and Poetry magazine's 90th Anniversary Anthology.

Her second full-length collection, Subject to Change (David Robert Books, 2004), was nominated for the Poets' Prize.

She served as the city of Milwaukee's Poet Laureate in 2004 and 2005, and was appointed Poet Laureate of the state of Wisconsin for 2009 and 2010.

She also served for five years as a contributing editor for The Writer Magazine.

A retired Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, she taught poetry and poetics for the Department of English and later for the Honors College.

She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she presents readings and facilitates workshops throughout Wisconsin and beyond.

"Mixed Signals"

"Studying the Menu"

"Late November"

"Home Again, Home Again"

"Cover Letter"

"Trocha-spondaloopian Sonnet"

"The Seven Very Liberal Arts"

"Rondeau: Old Woman With Cat"

"Summer Sapphics"

"Reading the Obituaries"

"After Twenty Years"

"The Native"