Greg Williamson
Born1964
Education
OccupationPoet & poetry professor
EmployerJohns Hopkins University
Websitegregwilliamsonbooks.com

Greg Williamson (born 1964) is an American poet. He is most known for the invention of the "Double Exposure" form in which one poem can be read three different ways: solely the standard type, solely the bold type in alternating lines, or the combination of the two.[1][2]

Life

Williamson grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. He was educated at Vanderbilt University, University of Wisconsin–Madison and Johns Hopkins University.[3]

He teaches at Johns Hopkins University in the Writing Seminars and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.[4] He is Associate Editor at Waywiser Press.

Awards

Works

  • "The Birdhouse", Verse Daily
  • "from Double Exposures", Poetry, August 2000
  • The Silent Partner. Story Line Press. 1995. ISBN 978-1-885266-11-8.
  • Errors in the Script. Overlook Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1-58567-117-5.
  • A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck. Waywiser Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-904130-28-4.

Anthologies

  • John Hollander; David Lehman, eds. (1998). The Best American poetry, 1998. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-81453-7.
  • Michael Dumanis; Cate Marvin, eds. (2006). Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century. Sarabande Books. ISBN 978-1-932511-29-1.
  • Maggie Anderson; David Hassler, eds. (1999). "Drawing Hands". Learning by heart: contemporary American poetry about school. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-663-6.

References

  1. ↑ Rehak, Melanie (2001-08-26). "Books in Brief: Fiction & Poetry". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  2. ↑ Choi, Kamiel (2018-01-18). "Reading: Outbound by Greg Williamson". Meandering home. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  3. ↑ "Greg Williamson". Poetry Foundation. 2019-09-01. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  4. ↑ "About The Waywiser Press". Archived from the original on 2009-10-02. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
  5. ↑ "Greg Williamson". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  6. ↑ "Awards – American Academy of Arts and Letters". Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  7. ↑ "The Best American Poetry 1998, Guest Edited by John Hollander". bestamericanpoetry.com. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  8. ↑ "Greg Williamson". Waywiser-press.com. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
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