Greg Williamson (poet) explained

Greg Williamson
Education:	Vanderbilt University University of Wisconsin–Madison Johns Hopkins University
Birth Date:	1964
Occupation:	Poet & poetry professor
Employer:	Johns Hopkins University

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

• 1998 Whiting Award^[5]
• 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^[6]
• The Best American Poetry 1998^[7]
• Runner-up for NYC Poets' Prize^[8]

Works

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

Anthologies

• Book: The Best American poetry, 1998. registration. John Hollander . David Lehman. Scribner. 1998. 978-0-684-81453-7 .
• Book: Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century. Michael Dumanis . Cate Marvin. Sarabande Books. 2006. 978-1-932511-29-1 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=OUPh2C8hzk4C&pg=PA190 . Drawing Hands. Learning by heart: contemporary American poetry about school. Maggie Anderson . David Hassler. University of Iowa Press. 1999. 978-0-87745-663-6 .

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

Notes and References

1. News: Books in Brief: Fiction & Poetry. Rehak. Melanie. 2001-08-26. The New York Times. 2019-09-01. en-US. 0362-4331.
2. Web site: Reading: Outbound by Greg Williamson. Choi. Kamiel. 2018-01-18. Meandering home. en-US. 2019-09-01.
3. Web site: Greg Williamson. 2019-09-01. Poetry Foundation. en. 2019-09-01.
4. Web site: About The Waywiser Press . 2009-09-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091002233028/http://waywiser-press.com/press.html . 2009-10-02 .
5. Web site: Greg Williamson. www.whiting.org. 2019-09-01.
6. Web site: Awards – American Academy of Arts and Letters. en-US. 2019-09-01.
7. Web site: The Best American Poetry 1998, Guest Edited by John Hollander. bestamericanpoetry.com. 2019-09-01.
8. Web site: Greg Williamson . Waywiser-press.com . 9 October 2019.