John Silbey Williams is the author of nine poetry collections, including Scale Model of a Country at Dawn (Cider Press Review Poetry Award), The Drowning House (Elixir Press Poetry Award), As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press), and Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize). His book Sky Burial: New & Selected Poems is forthcoming in translated form by the Portuguese press do lado esquerdo. A twenty-seven-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 founder of the Caesura Poetry Workshop series. Previous publishing credits include Best American Poetry, Yale Review, Verse Daily, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and TriQuarterly.

Other poems by John Silbey Williams in Verse Daily:
February 23, 2022:   "My American Ghost" "& we shall be lit..."
July 13, 2020:   "Counterglow" "Consider the meteorite..."
May 11, 2020:   "Picture Day" "Now let's see..."
March 17, 2020:   "Reparations" "Maybe not for the dead exactly..."

Books by John Sibley Williams:

Other poems on the web by John Sibley Williams:
"half-life of a different country"
Two poems
"sky burial"
"The White Album"
Two poems
Two poems
"Pilgrimage"
"Summer Boys"
Two poems
"Daedalus/Oppenheimer"
"A Brief History of the Perfect Storm"
"Fail Me"
"Back when you were a country"
"Bestiary"
"Encroachment"

John Sibley Williams's Website.

John Sibley Williams on Twitter.

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