page_title: Charles Taylor Jr.
section_title: Professor
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Taylor Jr. / Professor
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Charles Taylor was crowned Beat Poet Laureate at the Revolution Cafe in Texas on Nov. 5, 2011 by the First Annual Beat Poetry and Art Festival in College Station/Bryan, Texas.
context_page_description: Charles "Chuck" Taylor Jr. is an American author of books of poetry, essay, short story, and novels who was born in Minneapolis but has lived most of his life in Texas. He teaches creative writing at Texas A&M and operates small press Slough Press, publishing since 1973. His contribution to building the literature scene on the Third Coast in Austin, Texas, includes activities as both a writer and publisher. He published leading poets, fiction and non-fiction writers whose books received numerous awards and were later published by larger presses. His own titles, such as the poetry collection What do You Want, Blood? received the 1988 Austin Book Award and regional critical acclaim. He is one of the legendary figures of the Austin–San Antonio–Dallas triangle culture that nurtured the eccentric, free-spirited independence of Texan bohemia and cross-cultural innovative creativity, especially in the literary arts. Taylor's novel, Drifter's Story, and his poetry book, Ordinary Life, explore the lives of the working poor. He has taught in the NEA Poets-in-the-Schools Program and was CETA Poet-in-Residence for the City of Salt Lake.
context_section_description: Taylor has been the Coordinator of Creative Writing in the English Department of Texas A&M University at College Station and taught literature and creative writing there for 21 years.
   He specializes in creative writing (poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction), composition and technical writing for international students, Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, American literature, Introduction to film, bibliography, literature of the Beat Movement, American nature writing.
  Taylor has taught a variety of classes, including creative writing of both prose and poetry, technical writing, nature writing, and honors courses on topics such as the influence of Surrealism on American and English literature, and Mexican-American poetry and fiction. One of his students who writes under the name Sophie Jordan is currently on The New York Times Best Seller list.
caption: Chuck Taylor crowned as Beat Poet Laureate at the Revolution Cafe during the Beat Poetry and Art Festival in Bryan/College Station, Texas, 2011.
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