Sam Taylor is an American poet. His first book of poems, Body of the World (Ausable Press, 2005), was a finalist for Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year. He currently teaches with Albert Goldbarth in the MFA poetry program at Wichita State University. He is completing a new collection, poems from which have appeared in_ The New Republic_, The Hudson Review,_ Michigan Quarterly Review_, New Letters, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. (updated 4/2012)