bio

Born and raised in musically renowned Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Harold Whit Williams is a prize-winning poet and the longtime guitarist for indie rock band Cotton Mather. A session musician for numerous Austin, TX artists over the years, his lo-fi home studio projects Daily Worker and the ambient/experimental The French Riot now have hours of music available online for download or streaming. GERVIN, his funk/soul/rock long distance studio project with Muscle Shoals future-hall-of-famers Al Gamble and brother Chad Gamble, is a proud member of song placement giant Marmoset Music. Williams catalogs the KUT Collection for the University of Texas Libraries and writes a quarterly music review for UT’s TexLibris (Whit’s Picks). He lives in Austin, Texas.

poetry and prose

Harold Whit Williams’ literary prizes include the 2020 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize from Texas Review Press, and being featured in the 2014 University of North Texas Kraken Reading Series. He is a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee, and his poems and short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies.

His latest poetry collection, Harold Whit Williams: Selected Poems is available from FutureCycle Press.

PURCHASE:

A Rain Ancestral

Mel Bay’s Book of the Dead

My Heavens

Red Clay Journal

Lost in the Telling

Backmasking 

Waiting For The Fire To Go Out

POEMS ONLINE at

Barely South Review

Blunderbuss

boneparade and also here

Boxcar Poetry Review

Cold Mountain Review

Concho River Review

Cumberland River Review

Dead Mule School of Southern Literature

Deep South Magazine and also here

drafthorse

Gnarled Oak

Hunger Mountain

Josephine Quarterly

JuxtaProse

Mississippi Review

The Monarch Review

Nashville Review

Oklahoma Review

Painted Bride Quarterly

Tower Journal

Tulane Review

Zero Ducats

wise ass

THE GREAT AMERICAN WISE ASS POETRY ANTHOLOGY
(alongside acclaimed poet Andrew Hudgins and grit-lit heavyweight Joe R. Lansdale!)

krcover600

KENTUCKY REVIEW – 2015 edition

shows

DAILY WORKER LIVE IN 2024

JAN 2  HOLE IN THE WALL, ATX (W/A. SINCLAIR)

JAN 18  CAROUSEL LOUNGE, ATX (W/GO-TOS)

JAN 24 CORAL SNAKE, ATX

JAN 26  MEANWHILE BREWERY, ATX (W/RITE FLYERS)

FEB 24  KNOMAD, ATX

MAR 6  HOLE IN THE WALL, ATX (LIBRARIES ROCK)

MAR 11  C-BOY’S, ATX (SWOLLEN CIRCUS)

MAR 14  KNOMAD, ATX

APR 6  HOLE IN THE WALL, ATX