William Taylor Jr. is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet.

He lives in San Francisco with his wife and a cat named Trouble.His work has been widely published in the independent press and across the internet in such publications as Poesy, Anthills and The Chiron Review. He is the author of several chapbooks and his latest book, So Much Is Burning is available from sunnyoutside press. Words For Songs Never Written, a book of new and collected poems is due out early in 2007 from Centennial Press.


Snippets of what some folks have had to say about William's work:


"Gutsy, gritty and grimy from the inner-cities of life, Taylor's poems are heart cries from the victims...
day to day survival so artfully depicted"
-Melting Trees Review-

"William is good at turning the everyday emotion into something special:
something to treasure...get the goddam book!"
-De'Pressed Int'l-

"William Taylor Jr's poems come from nowhere and rip the world away from you...
they leave you feeling the world around you as if the cage
you've always known has evaporated...and the feeling lingers...
the feeling of being completely aware of the world, lingers.
Try one. You'll see."
-Gerald Bierbaum, Notes From The Underground-

"William Taylor Jr's work is always worth reading...
one man's blunt observations of the people,
places and events that surround us all."
-Malevolence Publications-

"Taylor wields a whip-smart pen. It's like having an
all star catcher, pitcher and utility infielder stuck in the rye."
-Metro Review-

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