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derekjgwilliams.bsky.social
expat American writer, PhD Reading Water (Lightscatter, 2025) Poetry Is A Disease (Greying Ghost, 2022) http://www.derekjgwilliams.com/
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I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as a lamb. - Melville to Hawthorne, after finishing Moby Dick 🫶

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finally waking up to some good news from America--Mamdani wins!

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new books! new books! new books!

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I loved being my mother's son

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The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

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I too am in a glass box of emotion Ron, I too.

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this weekend - & check out @magpiedays.bsky.social's book Tumor Moon!

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RELEASE THE BATS! youtu.be/yaWn0qcRYFA?...

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oh man, Alcaraz stole that title from Sinner, brutal #rolandgarros

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Today's poem is "Pavlov's Dog" by Derek JG Williams from Reading Water All Subscribers got to hear this poet from their inbox! www.versedaily.org/2025/pavlovs...

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I’m so hype for my next 6 books to come out.

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work from Reading Water reprinted now @versedaily.bsky.social

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I'd rather read about the Happy Mondays than listen to them (with the exception of a couple songs)

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No thoughts just the overwhelming urge to vanish into a bookstore and never explain myself again

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man, spending so much good time with Patrick Rosal's words: "...Shame / is like you're made of / of 10,000 / beautiful doors / and every day / you try to keep them / all / from flying open / at once..." www.youtube.com/live/JVLoHoU...

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Rosal, always. poets.org/poem/if-all-...

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I love a cab home at the end of the night. So much wind. So little thought.

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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

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keep side eyeing my unwieldy current reads/to be read pile like what MORON keeps assigning all these BOOKS..... it's me , chat, it was all me

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Tonight at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn!

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My thanks to a generous review of the book by Rebecca Valley @ Bear Review. www.bearreview.com/bear-reviews...

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congratulations to Marie Howe on the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry!! i’m thinking again of this moment from an interview— Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart.

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Drinking coffees, working on my jet lag.

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Honored to say a few poems from Reading Water at this month's DMQ Review Virtual Salon. Watch at the link below & tell me what you think. www.dmqreview.com/salon

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Guys, 100 Foot Wave is back. Rejoice. If you haven't watched this show, welcome to your new obsession.

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. lost in the zeitgeist .

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Ashley & Nora did such wonderful work. Check out the trailer for my book which drops tomorrow!

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Hell, you can order DIRECT FROM SMALL PRESSES 📚💙 Like @riverriverbooks.bsky.social and @juneroadpress.bsky.social and @lightscatterpress.bsky.social and @perugiapress.bsky.social 🔥🔥

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Early experiments from 2011, blending poetry, typography, and code.

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I especially feel like queer and trans folk need a place to send their writing today to be read by queer and trans editors so HOLLER, y’all 🩷🎉🎉

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Best random poetry reading of the moment—from Kendra DeColo’s “Love Letter With the Beatles, Lana Del Ray, and Julio Cortázar” 😂ferret support😂

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exploratory image from ongoing collaboration with Lillian Nećakov

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Coming soon. This isn't just a book. vimeo.com/1074733334

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Tranströmer for #smallpoemsunday & @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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my Mom passed 3 years ago yesterday I celebrated her by going out of my way to do things for others all day, because her graciousness defined her that and how loud she was - she was loud

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The character of Donald Trump in this play was based on Alf, the space alien who eats cats.

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This press is cool! They also have a great call for CNF on rivers, which I've been thinking about a lot. The anthology prompt keeps showing up in things I read and listen to. I follow these peeps because their posts and ethical guideposts remind me to keep a good why at my core. To be human, first.

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Upcoming readings. I get around, friends. From Philly to France. Come buy a book and I’ll sign it! & of course I’m booking into the future, already something in 2027! Readings. Talks. Class visits. Please reach out.

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