Kent Taylor

Kent Taylor is a poet who began writing at Ohio Wesleyan University. He was part of the underground poetry scene in Cleveland in the 1960s, where his first six books were published by d.a. levy. He moved to San Francisco in 1970 and has published 19 chapbooks. His first full-length collection, The Night Always Keeps Something, gathers 317 poems from seventeen earlier chapbooks, spanning 1959 to the present, and was issued by Between Shadows Press in 2024.