Greg Williamson

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Name Greg Williamson Role Poet		Education Vanderbilt University Awards Whiting Awards

Books A most marvelous piece of l, Errors in the Script, The silent partner

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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.

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Life

Williamson grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. He was educated at Vanderbilt University, University of Wisconsin–Madison and Johns Hopkins University.

He teaches at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore, Maryland. He is Associate Editor at Waywiser Press.

Awards

1998 Whiting Award

Nathan Haskell Dole Prize

1995 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize

John Atherton Fellowship

Works

"The Birdhouse", Verse Daily

"from Double Exposures", Poetry, August 2000

The Silent Partner. Story Line Press. 1995. ISBN 978-1-885266-11-8.

Errors in the Script. Overlook Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1-58567-117-5.

A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck. Waywiser Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-904130-28-4.

Anthologies

John Hollander, David Lehman, eds. (1998). The Best American poetry, 1998. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-81453-7. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Michael Dumanis, Cate Marvin, eds. (2006). Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century. Sarabande Books. ISBN 978-1-932511-29-1. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Maggie Anderson, David Hassler, eds. (1999). "Drawing Hands". Learning by heart: contemporary American poetry about school. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-663-6. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

References

Greg Williamson Wikipedia

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