Greg Williamson (poet)
{{short description|American poet (born 1964)}}
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| birth_date = 1964
| occupation = Poet & poetry professor
| employer = Johns Hopkins University
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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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/books/books-in-brief-fiction-poetry-748420.html|title=Books in Brief: Fiction & Poetry|last=Rehak|first=Melanie|date=2001-08-26|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-09-01|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|url=http://kamiel.creativechoice.org/2018/01/18/reading-outbound-by-greg-williamson/|title=Reading: Outbound by Greg Williamson|last=Choi|first=Kamiel|date=2018-01-18|website=Meandering home|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-01}}
Life
Williamson grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. He was educated at Vanderbilt University, University of Wisconsin–Madison and Johns Hopkins University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/greg-williamson|title=Greg Williamson|date=2019-09-01|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en|access-date=2019-09-01}}
He teaches at Johns Hopkins University in the Writing Seminars and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.{{cite web |url=http://waywiser-press.com/press.html |title=About The Waywiser Press |accessdate=2009-09-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002233028/http://waywiser-press.com/press.html |archivedate=2009-10-02 }}
He is Associate Editor at Waywiser Press.
Awards
- 1998 Whiting Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/greg-williamson|title=Greg Williamson|website=www.whiting.org|access-date=2019-09-01}}
- Nathan Haskell Dole Prize
- 1995 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize
- John Atherton Fellowship
- 2004 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters{{Cite web|url=https://artsandletters.org/awards/|title=Awards – American Academy of Arts and Letters|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-01}}
- The Best American Poetry 1998{{Cite web|url=http://bestamericanpoetry.com/archive/?id=12|title=The Best American Poetry 1998, Guest Edited by John Hollander|website=bestamericanpoetry.com|access-date=2019-09-01}}
- Runner-up for NYC Poets' Prize{{cite web |title=Greg Williamson |url=https://waywiser-press.com/greg-williamson/ |website=Waywiser-press.com |accessdate=9 October 2019}}
Works
- [http://www.versedaily.org/thebirdhouse.shtml "The Birdhouse", Verse Daily]
- [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=30155 "from Double Exposures", Poetry, August 2000]
- {{cite book| title=The Silent Partner | publisher=Story Line Press| year=1995| isbn=978-1-885266-11-8 }}
- {{cite book | title=Errors in the Script | publisher=Overlook Press | year=2001 | isbn=978-1-58567-117-5 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/errorsinscriptpo00will }}
- {{cite book| title=A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck | publisher=Waywiser Press| year=2008| isbn=978-1-904130-28-4 }}
=Anthologies=
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- {{cite book| title=The Best American poetry, 1998| url=https://archive.org/details/bestamericanpoet00davi_0| url-access=registration|editor1=John Hollander |editor2=David Lehman| publisher=Scribner| year=1998| isbn=978-0-684-81453-7 }}
- {{cite book| title=Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century|editor1=Michael Dumanis |editor2=Cate Marvin| publisher=Sarabande Books| year=2006| isbn=978-1-932511-29-1 }}
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OUPh2C8hzk4C&pg=PA190 | chapter=Drawing Hands| title=Learning by heart: contemporary American poetry about school|editor1=Maggie Anderson |editor2=David Hassler| publisher=University of Iowa Press| year=1999| isbn=978-0-87745-663-6 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/greg-williamson#/ Profile at The Whiting Foundation]
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Category:Vanderbilt University alumni
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni
Category:Johns Hopkins University faculty
Category:21st-century American poets