Coming to IUP . . . March 2004

Author of more than a dozen books, including the highly-regarded poetry collections Dodeka, Loop, Peace on Earth,  Remaining in Light: Ant Meditations on a Painting by Edward Hopper, and When the Saints, as well as Song of Degrees: Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics--John Taggart will present his creative writing in a specially arranged poetry performance.

The Critics Say

I know of none who in the present can so flood all the soul with melody
--Washington Review

A poetry of remarkable presence and power
--Dictionary of Literary Biography

John Taggart Online

Rhythm and Blues Singer in Flashpointmag (www.flashpointmag.com/index5.htm)
Pastorelle 11 in Poetry Bay Online (www.poetrybay.com/winter2004/taggert.html)
Slow Song for Mark Rothko & Inside Out in Grist Online (http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/ltagrt1.htm)
Chicago Breakdown in Facture 3 (www.webdelsol.com/Facture/poems/JohnTaggart.pdf)
Poems on E- Reserve (IUP Students only)

Information

Contact Kenneth Sherwood: sherwood@iup.edu / 724-357-2981 / Sherwood