Derek JG Williams
@derekjgwilliams.bsky.social
expat American writer, PhD
Reading Water (Lightscatter, 2025)
Poetry Is A Disease (Greying Ghost, 2022)
http://www.derekjgwilliams.com/
Reading Water (Lightscatter, 2025)
Poetry Is A Disease (Greying Ghost, 2022)
http://www.derekjgwilliams.com/
work from Reading Water reprinted now @versedaily.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
work from Reading Water reprinted now @versedaily.bsky.social
Upcoming readings. I get around, friends. From Philly to France. Come buy a book and I’ll sign it! & of course I’m booking into the future, already something in 2027! Readings. Talks. Class visits. Please reach out.
April 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Upcoming readings. I get around, friends. From Philly to France. Come buy a book and I’ll sign it! & of course I’m booking into the future, already something in 2027! Readings. Talks. Class visits. Please reach out.
No #AWP for me this year. But @lightscatterpress.bsky.social will be there with a bunch of materials from Reading Water--perfect time to preorder.
& you can read poems from the collection at the book fair in the latest issues from @sugarhousereview.bsky.social & Barrow Street.
& you can read poems from the collection at the book fair in the latest issues from @sugarhousereview.bsky.social & Barrow Street.
March 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
No #AWP for me this year. But @lightscatterpress.bsky.social will be there with a bunch of materials from Reading Water--perfect time to preorder.
& you can read poems from the collection at the book fair in the latest issues from @sugarhousereview.bsky.social & Barrow Street.
& you can read poems from the collection at the book fair in the latest issues from @sugarhousereview.bsky.social & Barrow Street.
My forthcoming collection has a cover & is now available for preorder at the link below!
www.lightscatterpress.org/product-page...
#poetry #poetrylovers #poets #poems #poetrycommunity
www.lightscatterpress.org/product-page...
#poetry #poetrylovers #poets #poems #poetrycommunity
February 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
My forthcoming collection has a cover & is now available for preorder at the link below!
www.lightscatterpress.org/product-page...
#poetry #poetrylovers #poets #poems #poetrycommunity
www.lightscatterpress.org/product-page...
#poetry #poetrylovers #poets #poems #poetrycommunity
Enough said.
January 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Enough said.
A very important poem from Reading Water (forthcoming May 1st) is published in the latest issue of @sugarhousereview.bsky.social. My thanks to the editors. I've enjoyed reading through the issue these last few days.
#poetry #literature #poem #readingwater #poetrysky
#poetry #literature #poem #readingwater #poetrysky
January 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A very important poem from Reading Water (forthcoming May 1st) is published in the latest issue of @sugarhousereview.bsky.social. My thanks to the editors. I've enjoyed reading through the issue these last few days.
#poetry #literature #poem #readingwater #poetrysky
#poetry #literature #poem #readingwater #poetrysky
the last month has been a slog, which of course makes me want to read Larkin, patron saint of grouches and cranks
December 4, 2024 at 11:30 AM
the last month has been a slog, which of course makes me want to read Larkin, patron saint of grouches and cranks
I was a part of an interesting roundtable discussion with @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social about my experience publishing my debut poetry collection, Reading Water, which is out next year with @lightscatterpress.bsky.social.
www.onlypoems.net/publishing/2...
www.onlypoems.net/publishing/2...
November 18, 2024 at 10:19 AM
I was a part of an interesting roundtable discussion with @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social about my experience publishing my debut poetry collection, Reading Water, which is out next year with @lightscatterpress.bsky.social.
www.onlypoems.net/publishing/2...
www.onlypoems.net/publishing/2...
May 7, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Shogun is for the poets!
Yabushige's death poem:
My dead body
Don't burn it, just leave it in the field
And with it, fill the belly of some hungry dog.
Yabushige's death poem:
My dead body
Don't burn it, just leave it in the field
And with it, fill the belly of some hungry dog.
April 24, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Shogun is for the poets!
Yabushige's death poem:
My dead body
Don't burn it, just leave it in the field
And with it, fill the belly of some hungry dog.
Yabushige's death poem:
My dead body
Don't burn it, just leave it in the field
And with it, fill the belly of some hungry dog.
I've got a long article in the new Writer's Chronicle on poets, actors, film, persona, & voice; it looks at poems by O'Hara, Bidart, Ai, & Dimitrov.
I'll make the article free in a couple months, but for now you need a subscription to read it.
I'll make the article free in a couple months, but for now you need a subscription to read it.
April 3, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I've got a long article in the new Writer's Chronicle on poets, actors, film, persona, & voice; it looks at poems by O'Hara, Bidart, Ai, & Dimitrov.
I'll make the article free in a couple months, but for now you need a subscription to read it.
I'll make the article free in a couple months, but for now you need a subscription to read it.
I'm thrilled to have @lightscatterpress.bsky.social publish my debut collection of poems next year, & I'm honored Eduardo Corral chose Reading Water as winner of the 2023 prize.
www.lightscatterpress.org
www.lightscatterpress.org
March 21, 2024 at 3:37 PM
I'm thrilled to have @lightscatterpress.bsky.social publish my debut collection of poems next year, & I'm honored Eduardo Corral chose Reading Water as winner of the 2023 prize.
www.lightscatterpress.org
www.lightscatterpress.org
latest in a long line of bathroom selfies
March 18, 2024 at 11:34 AM
latest in a long line of bathroom selfies
The last poem in I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First, by Angie Mazakis, is a stunner.
March 12, 2024 at 1:30 PM
The last poem in I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First, by Angie Mazakis, is a stunner.
March 10, 2024 at 2:26 PM
A good stretch.
March 5, 2024 at 8:01 AM
A good stretch.
Teaching a new course in April. All genres are welcome!
February 13, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Teaching a new course in April. All genres are welcome!
No AWP, but a day at the Kunsthaus Zürich was fantastisch! Sometimes a guy is going to feel this way:
February 9, 2024 at 12:43 PM
No AWP, but a day at the Kunsthaus Zürich was fantastisch! Sometimes a guy is going to feel this way:
Dean Young, doing Dean Young things
December 5, 2023 at 6:01 PM
Dean Young, doing Dean Young things
preview of the course I'm teaching after the 1st of the year - share the word or sign up
grubstreet.org/findaclass/c...
#poetry #writingcommunity #writingworkshop
grubstreet.org/findaclass/c...
#poetry #writingcommunity #writingworkshop
December 1, 2023 at 3:10 PM
preview of the course I'm teaching after the 1st of the year - share the word or sign up
grubstreet.org/findaclass/c...
#poetry #writingcommunity #writingworkshop
grubstreet.org/findaclass/c...
#poetry #writingcommunity #writingworkshop
from WC Williams' Paterson
November 19, 2023 at 11:52 AM
from WC Williams' Paterson
My movie theater attendance has been pretty good over the last year. I'm trying to get back into the habit of going regularly.
Seeing a matinee of Bones and All, randomly, in Paris, next to the Champs-Élysées was the best, though. Or the best since moving abroad.
Seeing a matinee of Bones and All, randomly, in Paris, next to the Champs-Élysées was the best, though. Or the best since moving abroad.
November 12, 2023 at 12:51 PM
My movie theater attendance has been pretty good over the last year. I'm trying to get back into the habit of going regularly.
Seeing a matinee of Bones and All, randomly, in Paris, next to the Champs-Élysées was the best, though. Or the best since moving abroad.
Seeing a matinee of Bones and All, randomly, in Paris, next to the Champs-Élysées was the best, though. Or the best since moving abroad.
October 21, 2023 at 1:17 PM
"First Memory" by Louise Glück
with my old annotations
tonight I reread Ararat in her memory
with my old annotations
tonight I reread Ararat in her memory
October 13, 2023 at 6:49 PM
"First Memory" by Louise Glück
with my old annotations
tonight I reread Ararat in her memory
with my old annotations
tonight I reread Ararat in her memory
a weird couple months of movie-watching that included seeing Stalker x3
October 5, 2023 at 7:50 AM
a weird couple months of movie-watching that included seeing Stalker x3