Ian C. Williams
@iancwilliamspoet.bsky.social
Poet | EVERY WRECKAGE available from Fernwood Press | Editor for Jarfly Magazine | Teacher | Type-1 Diabetic
Every time Mr. Rogers or Daniel Tiger say, “It’s you I like,” I pretty much melt.
September 19, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Every time Mr. Rogers or Daniel Tiger say, “It’s you I like,” I pretty much melt.
Well, my 4-year-old told me I was squishy this morning, so it’s probably time to stop putting off working out.
August 3, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Well, my 4-year-old told me I was squishy this morning, so it’s probably time to stop putting off working out.
Had a dream that Sam Reich invited me to join DropOut, which is hilarious, because I am not very funny.
July 18, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Had a dream that Sam Reich invited me to join DropOut, which is hilarious, because I am not very funny.
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June 17, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Submissions are now open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
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It has been an absolute honor to be included in @ballastjournal.bsky.social! Thanks for believing in this weirdo cryptid poem!
Contributor feature!
Rounding out ballast issue 2.2 is this beaut from Ian C. Williams
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Rounding out ballast issue 2.2 is this beaut from Ian C. Williams
@iancwilliamspoet.bsky.social
www.ballastjournal.com/ian-c-williams
June 18, 2024 at 12:44 AM
It has been an absolute honor to be included in @ballastjournal.bsky.social! Thanks for believing in this weirdo cryptid poem!
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Quality of AI generative content aside, I am just SO thoroughly uninterested in things that are not made by people. All my favorite media is the stuff where you can tell that a person made specific decisions while making it. I want to feel a different person's personality present in it
June 16, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Quality of AI generative content aside, I am just SO thoroughly uninterested in things that are not made by people. All my favorite media is the stuff where you can tell that a person made specific decisions while making it. I want to feel a different person's personality present in it
I have a four-year-old boy so we watch a lot of Cars, and I can safely say the best part of Cars 2 was casting Bruce Campbell as a spy.
June 10, 2024 at 12:50 PM
I have a four-year-old boy so we watch a lot of Cars, and I can safely say the best part of Cars 2 was casting Bruce Campbell as a spy.
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Friday Links is UP! Featuring @iancwilliamspoet.bsky.social @barryp.bsky.social @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social and MORE!
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Friday Links: Your Life Matters Because You're Living It Edition
“You know very well that the earth is filled with angels and djinn, partying like teenagers, spinning around like waterwheels. Come listen.” - Kaveh Akbar, 'Martyr!'
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May 3, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Friday Links is UP! Featuring @iancwilliamspoet.bsky.social @barryp.bsky.social @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social and MORE!
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"Church Ladies by Renee Emerson digs itself out of the dirt of church history by uplifting the varied women in that history..."
@megmcdermott92.bsky.social's book review of "Church Ladies" by Renee Emerson
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@megmcdermott92.bsky.social's book review of "Church Ladies" by Renee Emerson
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April 26, 2024 at 5:30 PM
"Church Ladies by Renee Emerson digs itself out of the dirt of church history by uplifting the varied women in that history..."
@megmcdermott92.bsky.social's book review of "Church Ladies" by Renee Emerson
psalteryandlyre.org/2024/04/26/b...
@megmcdermott92.bsky.social's book review of "Church Ladies" by Renee Emerson
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"But the problem of picking between necessary evils/is that we’re always wrist deep in the oleaginous slick of evil."
Grateful to have a poem, "Make Sure to Smile and Greet Students as You Guide Them Through the Weapons Detection Checkpoint" in the new Superstition Review!
Grateful to have a poem, "Make Sure to Smile and Greet Students as You Guide Them Through the Weapons Detection Checkpoint" in the new Superstition Review!
A Poem by Ian Williams | Superstition Review
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May 1, 2024 at 8:10 PM
"But the problem of picking between necessary evils/is that we’re always wrist deep in the oleaginous slick of evil."
Grateful to have a poem, "Make Sure to Smile and Greet Students as You Guide Them Through the Weapons Detection Checkpoint" in the new Superstition Review!
Grateful to have a poem, "Make Sure to Smile and Greet Students as You Guide Them Through the Weapons Detection Checkpoint" in the new Superstition Review!
Behold! (And in my own backyard)
April 30, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Behold! (And in my own backyard)
My debut collection of poems is available now wherever books are sold!
April 23, 2024 at 6:48 PM
My debut collection of poems is available now wherever books are sold!
My debut full-length collection of poetry, EVERY WRECKAGE, has a cover! It releases next month from
Fernwood Press and will be available from Fernwood, Amazon, and other places! It has been a dream to see this book take shape, and I’m excited to share it with you!
Fernwood Press and will be available from Fernwood, Amazon, and other places! It has been a dream to see this book take shape, and I’m excited to share it with you!
February 27, 2024 at 8:50 PM
My debut full-length collection of poetry, EVERY WRECKAGE, has a cover! It releases next month from
Fernwood Press and will be available from Fernwood, Amazon, and other places! It has been a dream to see this book take shape, and I’m excited to share it with you!
Fernwood Press and will be available from Fernwood, Amazon, and other places! It has been a dream to see this book take shape, and I’m excited to share it with you!
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there is no ethical use at all for ai “art”
February 1, 2024 at 2:47 AM
there is no ethical use at all for ai “art”
I read through and proofed my forthcoming poetry collection - Every Wreckage - which I hadn’t read completely since submitting the final draft, and I kept coming back pleasantly surprised with the decisions I made in writing it. I’m really excited to share this with everyone!
January 24, 2024 at 1:41 AM
I read through and proofed my forthcoming poetry collection - Every Wreckage - which I hadn’t read completely since submitting the final draft, and I kept coming back pleasantly surprised with the decisions I made in writing it. I’m really excited to share this with everyone!
My poem, "I'm Not Saying Your Garden Is Full of Snakes, But I'm Also Not Saying It Isn't," was published in Gastropoda! If you're into gardening conceits, plants, and complicated relationships, then maybe this is for you!
I’M NOT SAYING YOUR GARDEN IS FULL OF SNAKES, BUT I’M ALSO NOT SAYING IT ISN’T by Ian C. Willi...
After the move, I inherited a garden— every bed overgrowing its edging stones with weed and tangling vine, withered tendrils and twisted thorns. So I tear out their coil and suffocation, break up an...
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December 18, 2023 at 5:57 PM
My poem, "I'm Not Saying Your Garden Is Full of Snakes, But I'm Also Not Saying It Isn't," was published in Gastropoda! If you're into gardening conceits, plants, and complicated relationships, then maybe this is for you!
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I love this platform but for me it has the lowest (almost zero) interaction with my content. I feel like I'm yelling into a dark hole. But I sure am happy to read and interact with what y'all are posting.
December 12, 2023 at 5:15 AM
I love this platform but for me it has the lowest (almost zero) interaction with my content. I feel like I'm yelling into a dark hole. But I sure am happy to read and interact with what y'all are posting.
I'm going to need y'all to stop calling background information of any given thing "lore."
December 8, 2023 at 5:22 PM
I'm going to need y'all to stop calling background information of any given thing "lore."
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Issue 6, the Winter 2023 issue, is almost done and slated for a mid-December release in time for holiday reading! Stay tuned!
December 6, 2023 at 1:02 PM
Issue 6, the Winter 2023 issue, is almost done and slated for a mid-December release in time for holiday reading! Stay tuned!
I want to write about the emo millennial teenager to professional poet pipeline, and I'm going to need more of you emo kids to out your MySpace-coding, MyChem listening former selves.
December 1, 2023 at 5:37 PM
I want to write about the emo millennial teenager to professional poet pipeline, and I'm going to need more of you emo kids to out your MySpace-coding, MyChem listening former selves.
Why is it that boxed pasta instructions always call for way more water than necessary to boil noodles?
November 28, 2023 at 10:31 PM
Why is it that boxed pasta instructions always call for way more water than necessary to boil noodles?
This, and also, bring an appetizer or a side or any number of other things. Let us, as friends and as community, share the joy of taking care of each other.
I have a hard time believing that bringing a bottle of wine or flowers to dinner is truly bad etiquette because you’re making “extra work” for the host. Who started this rumor? Can we put this Twitter take to bed finally
November 15, 2023 at 12:06 PM
This, and also, bring an appetizer or a side or any number of other things. Let us, as friends and as community, share the joy of taking care of each other.
I guess it’s time for The Polar Express to guilt me into believing in Santa again.
November 14, 2023 at 10:56 PM
I guess it’s time for The Polar Express to guilt me into believing in Santa again.
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Why do I bother writing poems when one seven-minute episode of Bluey can cause more emotional devastation than I could ever hope to achieve?
November 7, 2023 at 7:57 PM
Why do I bother writing poems when one seven-minute episode of Bluey can cause more emotional devastation than I could ever hope to achieve?