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Evan Williams
@evansquilliams.bsky.social
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Your local prose poem emporium | Contributing Writer at Cleveland Review of Books | co-founding obliterator at Obliterat | An Extremely Well-Funded Study of Doors (above/ground press, 2023)

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…found a signed Merwin??
Cover page of W.S. Merwin’s “The Lice” bearing a personal inscription from 1979 and signed, “William Merwin”
April 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Found a friendly crayfish by the lake today (featuring my reflection in its eyes)
March 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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A collage featuring a two level living space (bedroom on top, bathroom on bottom). The color red prevails in the decor scheme. On the bottom level, a pelican emerges from the sink. Text placed in the top left and bottom right corners reads, “Indulge me.”
March 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Some shots from Berkeley
March 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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New poem from a new project in the new @capgrasmag.bsky.social

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March 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Also, a glove:
February 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Ruby and I retraced our first date today

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February 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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January 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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January 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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January 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Learning (slowly, humbly) to use a camera this year.
January 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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I have a few new poems in Matt Hart’s SOLID STATE (a free journal, email solidstateliterary at gmail dot com for an issue).

Here’s one from an ongoing sequence:
January 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Bear, pursued by exit
December 10, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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Ok two more, one from @rorty.bsky.social and one from me:
December 8, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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And a few collages I’ve done recently
December 8, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Scanning some of my favorite @rorty.bsky.social collages today

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December 8, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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Some new poems lately in mercury firs and Sweet Mammalian

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November 20, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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:-P
December 8, 2023 at 8:00 PM
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I’m mailing out AN EXTREMELY WELL-FUNDED STUDY IF DOORS today! If you’d like a signed copy (with a little door drawing), shoot me an email at ejeromewilliams [at] gmail [dot] com

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September 27, 2023 at 2:15 PM
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🚪They have arrived!🚪
September 20, 2023 at 5:21 PM
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🚪NEWS🚪

AN EXTREMELY
WELL-FUNDED
STUDY OF DOORS

(Coming soon to knock on you)
Book cover reads: An Extremely Well-Funded Study of Doors Evan Williams Cover depicts a man with wind blown hair and a yellow tie, pulling a wagon as he walks
September 6, 2023 at 8:40 PM
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Four excerpts from a novella of mine are out today in the Indiana Review

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II. Brother does one push-up. Sister does two push-ups. Brother does four push-ups. Sister does eight push-ups. Brother does sixteen push-ups. Sister does thirty-two push-ups. Brother does sixty-four push-ups. Sister does one hundred and twenty-eight push-ups. Brother says to Sister as she completes her one hundred and twenty-eighth pushup, “Your right sleeve has torn.” A clear hole can be seen. It could be seen by anyone. It is so gaping. Sister’s tricep extends through it when she straightens her arm. She flexes her muscle and the hole grows. “Do you feel, with your chest to the ground and your toes pointed downward,” says Sister, “as if the sky is a hole you are falling into?” Mother watches from a window as the sun sets. III. From the dark outside of the window, Brother and Sister watch as dinner is eaten. “A biscuit would taste nice to a boy with no mouth,” hungers Brother. “The shadow of pleasure is long or short depending on the angle of its light,” chastises Sister. Inside, Mother stands from the table to wash her dish. Light pours forth through the window above. With her hand, she makes a shadow puppet to greet the Children. It gestures as if to say,“You have come at last, welcome.” “We exist in the potential of night, Mother,” promises Brother. “Blot out a light in the dark and we will be with you,” promises Sister. Mother opens the window and breathes in the stars. “How the sky is able to swallow itself,” she thinks. “How humble.” A book before Lake Michigan. It’s cover reads “Indiana Review, 45.1 Summer 2023”
August 25, 2023 at 2:37 PM
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If you’re in Chicago, come hang out with us!
A vertical flier advertising a literature reading. Top left reads: Parker Young Daniel Borzutzky Mallory Smart Johannes Göransson Nathan Hoks Zachary Swezy Evan Williams & More Bottom right reads: Bric-a-Brac Records Chicago, IL Saturday, August 26 2pm-5pm
August 18, 2023 at 1:40 AM
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An evening list:
The city’s saddest soap sacks clean the dump, loathfully lathering: my atomic midriff; the light boats cast; our cross-eyed rainbow; a hot air belly; an inverted hat; a mock surfboard; a bitten bidet; all excess skyline; a jaywalking umbrella; the comb cooler; the jester’s fourth hand; my red line graph; a tired retiree; the mayor’s gelatin; a slippered ladder rung; a backward soldier; one coffined bystander; my nighttime overalls; and the funhouse cheetah.
August 9, 2023 at 11:44 PM
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Good morning from Leslie Scalapino’s “that they were at the beach”
July 26, 2023 at 1:21 PM