House of Bones"Viscerally particular," Williams's debut chapbook explores masculinity, aging, and spirituality through the body's architecture.The National Federation of State Poetry Societies, 2014
Ian C. Williams
Ian C. Williams is a poet and teacher from Appalachia. He is also the editor-in-chief for Jarfly: A Poetry Magazine. His debut full-length collection of poems, Every Wreckage, is forthcoming from Fernwood Press in 2023.
Fairmont, WV, United States
Chapbooks
Selected work (3 publications)
Self-Portrait as Bower BirdLook here at this cathedral arch
I’ve wrought for us with beak and talon.
Look at this shelter I’ve culled
from castaway plastic. See?
I’ve painted its walls with berry juice. I’ve adorned
its grounds with every scrap of blue...
poetry
You Remember ThisSometimes you want to sit across from your mother,
across her kitchen table & occupy the same space
as the dust cloud of white flour, the pie crusts,
the Vaseline glass, the vineyard in the wallpaper.
The scones—you know—are in the oven.
Maybe...
poetry
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