John Sibley Williams is the author of As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize, 2019), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press, 2019), Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize, 2019), Disinheritance, and Controlled Hallucinations. A twenty three-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Wabash Prize for Poetry, Philip Booth Award, Phyllis Smart-Young Prize, and Laux/Millar Prize. He serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and works as a freelance poetry editor and literary agent. Previous publishing credits include: Yale Review, North American Review, Midwest Quarterly, Southern Review, Sycamore Review, Prairie Schooner, Saranac Review, Atlanta Review, TriQuarterly, and various anthologies.

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Other poems on the web by John Sibley Williams:
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"Pilgrimage"
"Summer Boys"
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"Daedalus/Oppenheimer"
"A Brief History of the Perfect Storm"
"Fail Me"
"Back when you were a country"
"Bestiary"
"Encroachment"

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About As One Fire Consumes Another:

"John Sibley Williams' collection As One Fire Consumes Another transcends beyond the boundaries of family and history and country, beyond the body's tragedies, the 'silenced bones of others.' These poems rise as invocation, as testimonial to life's unfiltered beauty, violence, and faith, to the 'light . . . already in us.'"
—Vandana Khanna

"As One Fire Consumes Another is a rare creation full of song and seethe. Though Williams' poems are composed of casket-like rectangular frames, their feral energy throbs against justified lines, creating vital articulations in a world where empathy is under erasure—where 'even our ghosts have left us.' His is a poetics of elegy and inquiry. These poems serve as witness to lives lost and interrogations of America's violence as well as its willed amnesia of that brutality. It is a book of radiance and ruin that manages to be benevolent while breathing fire."
—Simone Muench

"If America's collective conscience is at war, the wounds and battle scars are in full display in John Sibley Williams' arresting book. No matter how dream-like, no matter how nightmarish or surreal, its startling landscapes reveal accurate truths about our country's dark humanity. Poem after poem, the strange elegance of As One Fire Consumes Another is remarkable and daunting."
—Rigoberto Gonzßlez

"In the incandescent poems of John Sibley Williams' As One Fire Consumes Another, the suggestion of a collective we is another violence in a violent world where peace and war are suffered in equal measure. These poems live in brilliant little cages that Williams has built for them, the language itself held to the fire. This collection grieves. It flames. It says 'your heart / hurts, and your heart hurts.' I am in awe of the beauty and conflict, the elegance and restraint. These poems live in the merciless wilds of memory and tradition, where surrender means being consumed, and everything is made to burn."
—Chelsea Dingman

"As One Fire Consumes Another is a guide through a troubled heritage and eventually death. Each sonic-rich poem places the reader in a different size coffin to watch life, making death always on the mind. Full of passion and heart, this book is always digging through the rubble towards life."
—Tyree Daye