Miller Williams

Miller Williams (April 8, 1930 – January 1, 2015) was an American contemporary poet, as well as a translator and editor. He wrote over 25 books and won several awards for his poetry. He was perhaps best known for reading a poem at President Clinton's 1997 inauguration. One of his best-known poems was "The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina."

Miller Williams
Born	Stanley Miller Williams (1930-04-08)April 8, 1930 Hoxie, Arkansas, U.S.
Died	January 1, 2015(2015-01-01) (aged 84) Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.
Occupation	Poet, translator, publisher
Nationality	United States

Williams suffered from spina bifida. He died in Fayetteville, Arkansas from Alzheimer's disease, aged 84.

Books

• A Circle of Stone, 1965
• So Long at the Fair, 1968
• Halfway from Hoxie, 1973
• Why God Permits Evil, 1977, Louisiana State University Press
• The Boys on Their Bony Mules, 1983, Louisiana State University Press
• Patterns of Poetry, 1986, Louisiana State University Press
• Living on the Surface, 1989
• Adjusting to the Light, 1992, University of Missouri Press
• Points of Departure, 1994
• The Ways We Touch: Poems, 1997, University of Illinois Press
• Some Jazz a While: Collected Poems, 1999, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 978-0-252-06774-7
• Making a Poem: Some Thoughts About Poetry and the People Who Write It, 2006, Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 978-0-8071-3132-9
• Time and the Tilting Earth: Poems, 2008, Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 978-0-8071-3353-8

Related pages

• List of poets from North America

Other websites

• Farnsworth, Elizabeth. Jan. 16, 1996. Interview with Miller Williams. American Poetry/PBS Online Newshour. [1] Archived 2012-09-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Rosenthal, Harry. Jan 20, 1997. "Poet Addresses Inaugural Event." Washington Post. [2]
• "Miller Williams." 2003. Entry in Contemporary Authors Online. Gale.
• Gatewood, Willard B. October 28, 2009. "Miller Williams." Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture

More reading

• Burns, Michael (ed.) 1991. Miller Williams and the Poetry of the Particular. Columbia, Mo: University of Missouri Press.
• Correspondence and other materials. Miller Williams Collection, 1950–1995. Fayetteville, Ar: University of Arkansas Libraries, Special Collections Division, Manuscript Collection 1387. http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/todd.html