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  1. 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. Williams was chosen to read a poem at the second inauguration of Bill ...

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    • Stanley Miller Williams, April 8, 1930, Hoxie, Arkansas, U.S.
    • Rebecca Jordan Hall (1969-), Lucille Day (1951-mid 1960's)
    • 3 (including Lucinda)
  2. Miller Williams. 1930–2015. 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 grounded in the ...

  3. Jan 3, 2015 · Stanley Miller Williams was born on April 8, 1930, in Hoxie, Ark., the son of an itinerant Methodist minister. Mr. Williams went to college hoping to study English and foreign languages but ...

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  5. 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.

  6. Miller Williams - Stanley Miller Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas, on April 8, 1930. Williams first attended Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, intending to study English and foreign languages but was dissuaded after entrance exams revealed that, according to him, “I had no verbal aptitude and that if I didn’t want to embarrass my parents, I should go into the hard sciences.”

  7. 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...

  8. Jan 3, 2015 · LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) — Poet Miller Williams, a prolific writer and teacher who read a poem at President Bill Clinton’s 1997 inauguration, has died. He was 84. Williams, the father of singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, died Thursday night at a hospital in Fayetteville of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, family friend Linda ...

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