h a r o l d w h i t w i l l i a m s
bio
Born and raised in musically renowned Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Harold Whit Williams is guitarist for the critically acclaimed rock band Cotton Mather.
He is also a prize-winning poet – recipient of the 2014 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, featured poet in the 2014 University of North Texas Kraken Reading Series, and his collection, Backmasking, was winner of the 2013 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize from Texas Review Press. His latest collection, Lost in the Telling, is available from FutureCycle Press.
poetry
Harold Whit Williams’ poetry prizes include the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize for 2014, the 2013 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize from Texas Review Press, as well as being a featured poet in the 2014 University of North Texas Kraken Reading Series. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, and his latest collection, Lost in the Telling, is available from FutureCycle Press.
PURCHASE Backmasking Waiting For The Fire To Go Out
POEMS ONLINE at
boneparade and also here
Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
Deep South Magazine and also here
THE GREAT AMERICAN WISE ASS POETRY ANTHOLOGY
(alongside acclaimed poet Andrew Hudgins and grit-lit heavyweight Joe R. Lansdale!)
KENTUCKY REVIEW – 2015 edition
music
NEW COTTON MATHER ALBUM (CD or Vinyl)
videos
Cotton Mather/California
Cotton Mather/KUT Live 2012
At Malvern Books w/Jon Bookout
Just Folks
