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. A session musician for numerous Austin artists over the years, his lo-fi studio projects DAILY WORKER, and the ambient home-recorded The French Riot, now have hours of music available online for download or streaming. A longtime UT Austin Libraries employee, Williams catalogs archived KUT music and writes a quarterly music review (Whit’s Picks) for TexLibris.
Williams is also a 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee, recipient of the 2014 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, as well as being author of four books of poetry. His collection, Backmasking, was winner of the 2013 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize from Texas Review Press, and his latest, Red Clay Journal, is now available from FutureCycle Press. He lives in Austin, Texas.
poetry
Harold Whit Williams’ poetry prizes include the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the 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. He is a 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee, and his poems have appeared in numerous literary journals.
His latest collection, Red Clay Journal, is available from FutureCycle Press.
PURCHASE: Lost in the Telling 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
videos
Daily Worker / Peacenik
Daily Worker / The Never Ending
Daily Worker / Full English
Daily Worker / My Blank Pages
The French Riot / Lowdown
The French Riot / Water on the Floor
Cotton Mather / California
Cotton Mather / KUT Live 2012
Cotton Mather / Eleanor Plunge – Live @ UT Music Archives
