holloway.english.berkeley.edu/ JOHN TAGGART is the 2011 Holloway/Mixed Blood poet. Born in Iowa, raised in Indiana, and educated at Earlham College, University of Chicago, and Syracuse University. He edited the literary magazine Maps, and his first poems were published in Origin, thereafter, publishing fourteen books of poetry. A "selected" collection of the fourteen, Is Music, was published in 2010. His work includes a critical study of Edward Hopper and a collection of critical essays on contemporary poetry & poetics. His current projects: a study of Robert Duncan--and taking care of trees.