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John Taggart is a poet and critic whose work spans volumes of poetry, a book on Edward Hopper, a collection of essays, and a highly anticipated poetry collection (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). A minister’s son born in Iowa in 1942, he grew up in small Indiana towns. Educated at Earlham College and the University of Chicago, he received a PhD from Syracuse University and afterward directed an arts program in the English department at Shippensburg University from 1969 until 2001. Taggart lives in the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania.