John Taggart was born 1942 in Perry, Iowa. Educated at Earlham College, University of Chicago, Syracuse University. He taught literature courses at Shippensburg University (Pennsylvania), from which he has recently retired. During the 60s and 70s he edited Maps, a poetry magazine. He has nine volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is When the Saints (Talisman, 1999). He has also published a collection of essays on contemporary poetry and poetics, Songs of Degrees (Alabama, 1994) and a book on the painter Edward Hopper, Remaining in Light (SUNY Press, 1993). Some anthology appearances are in Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics (Alabama,1998), Poems for the Millenium (UCal Press, 1998), and Best American Poems/2001 (Scribners, 2002). His current work has appeared in Conjunctions, Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, Denver Quarterly, Facture, Flashpoint, and Fence. He lives in south central Pennsylvania.
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