Derek JG Williams

poet parties man, I've had so many books disappear over the years

Is it underrated? I feel like that album is thought of as a masterpiece. I actually got so see him play a theater show with The Vanguard before it even came out. Mind-blowing experience.

someone stole my copy!!

say more

"America I used to be a communist when I was a kid I’m not sorry. / I smoke marijuana every chance I get. / I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet. / My mind is made up there’s going to be trouble." - AG -

Sean Thomas Dougherty – Hanzi in the Rain - Shō Poetry Journal I think I'm tiring of auditioning. / I'm not dancing for bread anymore.

"I'm not paying your fee.
Give the grant, the residency,
that place in a journal, that job
to someone else.
I'll be here under the Bodhi tree with Tu Fu.
He's sold a sheaf of poems."
shopoetryjournal.com/sean-thomas-...

Yankees knew they weren't winning that game as soon as they brought in Weaver.

Absolutely. Let me drop you a dm. Maybe we can grab a drink/coffee in Zurich sometime soon

so I haven't submitted work to journals in a few years, not with the publication of the book & the prose manuscript I've been writing, but holy wow everyone charges sub fees now--what a bummer

I've been sick and kind of depressed that I had to cancel a bunch of readings in the US this fall. I couldn't make the dates work with some family commitments. BUT, I'm excited to teach this workshop in Geneva in a few weeks!

genevawriters.org/event-6341404

Saw Mark Ruffalo eating a messy hoagie on Task and now I want a messy hoagie. Now that's prestige TV

♥️

Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”

how was Brussels?

thanks for the introduction Jenn

my response to most things

he's one of those poets I somehow just missed

Richie Hofmann: How Richard Siken's Crush Changed American Poetry An analysis of two waves of the Richard Siken craze, beginning with the 2004 publication of his first collection of poetry, Crush.

Great piece by Hofmann on Crush in the new @yalereview.bsky.social - I somehow have never spent much time with Siken. I aim to remedy that very soon!

yalereview.org/article/rich...

YES someone else noticed the hysterical phrasing of those Penguin books

(yes I did a whole thread at the time because I just couldn't get over it) bsky.app/profile/youn...

naw, Giambi, who I'm willing to bet loves a good time

July 2025 Interview with Derek JG Williams and CutBank Poetry Editor Lisa Kouroupis — CutBank Literary Magazine

I did an extensive interview with CutBank about the book. Lisa Kouroupis really nailed it in our conversation. Which you can check out here:

www.cutbankonline.org/interview-de...

I've been summering, which means I haven't been online as much. But summering involves much writing. May summer last forever.

The material of poems is energy itself, not even language. Words come later.

Eileen Myles, Inferno

Hi!

my thanks, Joanna

quick question if you have a sec - is there a best job board for UK academic positions? (American expat over here fishing for the next move) thank you!

in France, by the beach, smelling the lilacs, refreshing Reddit to see if the Yankees are going to get some pitching help--I'm a real sicko

#baseball

Manifesto, 2023

Typed on my trusty Lettera 22

that's about subject, right? (which suits the sentence)

Amen.