Awards and Recognition
Marilyn Taylor has received the following state, national and international poetry awards and recognition:
- Appointed Wisconsin Poet Laureate, 2009 and 2010
- Appointed Milwaukee Poet Laureate, 2004 and 2005
- Honorable Mention, 2021 Able Muse Write Prize for Poetry, for “One by One”
- 2021 Laureates’ Award from the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest, for “Block That Trope”
- Second Place, 2020 Rosebud Poetry Award from Rosebud Poetry Journal, for “Iron Man”
- Finalist, The Lascaux Prize in Poetry for “If, In October,” published in The Lascaux Prize 2018 Anthology
- Finalist, The 2016 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award from Measure for “Scaffolding”
- 2016 Pushcart Prize nomination from LIGHT Poetry Journal for “Spring and Especially Fall”
- Second Place, the 2016 XJ Kennedy Parody award from Able Muse for “We Real Old”
- The Margaret Reid Award for poetry in a traditional form (from
Winning Writers) - Nomination for The Poets Prize
- First Place, The Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition
- First Place, Passager Poetry Competition
- First Place, The Ledge Poetry Awards Competition
- First Place, GSU Review Poetry Contest
- First Place, Dogwood Journal Poetry Contest
- Walter E. Dakin Fellowship, Sewanee Writers Conference
- Anamnesis Press Poetry Chapbook Award
- Outstanding Achievement Recognition Award, Wisconsin Library Association
- Fellowship, Wisconsin Arts Board
- Associated Writing Programs Intro Award