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  2. Stanley Miller Williams (April 8, 1930 – January 1, 2015) was an American contemporary poet, as well as a university professor, translator and editor. He produced over 25 books and won several awards for his poetry. His accomplishments were chronicled in Arkansas Biography.

  3. Poet, editor, critic, and translator Miller Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas in 1930, the son of a Methodist clergyman and civil rights activist. Miller’s work is known for its gritty realism as much as for its musicality. Equally comfortable in formal and free verse, Williams wrote poems…

  4. Williams was a prolific writer, publishing thirty-seven books of poetry and prose. His most recent books of poetry are Time and the Tilting Earth: Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2008), Some Jazz a While: Collected Poems (University of Illinois Press, 1999), and The Ways We Touch (University of Illinois Press, 1997).

  5. Jan 3, 2015 · Miller Williams, a poet who championed the power of everyday language and who delivered a poem at the Capitol for President Bill Clinton’s second inauguration, died on Thursday in...

  6. Miller Williams (April 8, 1930 – January 1, 2015) was an American poet, translator and editor. He published 37 books of poetry and won several awards like the Henry Bellman Award, John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence, the Porter Prize Founda.

  7. Of History and Hope. By Miller Williams. We have memorized America, how it was born and who we have been and where. In ceremonies and silence we say the words, telling the stories, singing the old songs. We like the places they take us. Mostly we do. The great and all the anonymous dead are there. We know the sound of all the sounds we brought.

  8. Jan 6, 2015 · FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Miller Williams, internationally known poet, University of Arkansas professor emeritus, former director of the U of A Program in Creative Writing, founder of the program in translation, and co-founder and first director of the University of Arkansas Press, died Thursday, Jan. 1, at the age of 84.

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