Henry Taylor, 14th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-10-1991
Location
Mills Godwin Jr. Life Sciences Building
Author/Artist Bio
A Virginia-born poet, Henry Taylor won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his collection of poetry The Flying Change. Taylor, who is noted for the formal elegance of his poetry, is a writer who speaks with great clarity and honesty about the unavoidable changes people must go through in life. As Richard Dillard has said of his poetry, "Henry Taylor's work has all the ring and authority of an American Hardy. He is intensely aware of the darkness that moves around us and in us."
A graduate of the University of Virginia and Hollins College, Taylor grew up in rural Virginia and his poetry reflects his upbringing in its themes and subject matter. He is well versed in country things. As one critic has pointed out, "Henry Taylor has for all his poetic career been drawn inexorably to questions of time and mutability, of inevitable and painful change in even the most fixed and stable circumstances."
Among his other books of poetry are The Horse Show at Midnight, An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, and One for the Rose and Selected Poems. He has earned a well-deserved reputation as a teacher of writing not only in colleges but also in the Poetry in the Schools Program.
Description
Taylor, an award-winning poet, read from his work with another award-winning poet, Philip Levine on Thursday, October 10th, 1991 at 8:00 p.m. in the Mills Godwin, Jr. Life Sciences Building.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Henry, "Henry Taylor, 14th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (1991). 14th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 8-10, 1991. 4.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-1991/4
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