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Miscellany

From the Kentucky Arts Council: FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Arts Council has been awarded a $12,000 grant to produce statewide activities promoting careers in the arts for artists with disabilities. The arts council will partner with other statewide organizations … Continue reading

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I am proud to announce

Kestrel has nominated my poem “Why I Don’t Write Lyrics about the Frontier” for a 2011 Pushcart Prize. I am very grateful. The editors of Kestrel, Donna Long, Elizabeth Savage, and Suzanne Heagy have been very generous in publishing my … Continue reading

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Nashville Skyline

Just home from Nashville, the Southern Festival of Books , where I signed Weaving a New Eden under the aegis of this rather pert pair of buns: Here we are busily signing — copies of our books that we gave … Continue reading

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Habits

Just in time for National Poetry Month, my interview, The Habitual Poet: Sherry Chandler, is posted at the poemeleon blog. The Habitual Poet is a generous feature of poemeleon, offered to all their contributors. In this interview, I answer this … Continue reading

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Page 11

You may have noticed that my method here uses what I think of as negative space, which is to say that I box my words in little cages like prisoners at Guantanamo, though today I’ve tried to give them little … Continue reading

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Pushcart nomination!

Hooray! I am just as pleased as punch to announce that qarrtsiluni has nominated my poem “Relics” for a Pushcart! Thanks, Beth and Dave. Many are nominated and few are winners, I know. But this is my first nomination and … Continue reading

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Day of the dead

I thought I’d re-post this retrospectively (you can go back in time if you have a blog) for Day of the Dead: The poem is mine; the artwork is by my son Tom C. Williams. The drawing hung at the … Continue reading

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