From Colder Climates is now available for for your Kindle! CLICK HERE to read it.
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My latest chapbook, The Longest Compass, has just been released from Finishing Line Press!
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Reveling in the pleasures of language, this work speaks with those “…words born of soul,” words that do indeed “belong to neither the object nor the poet.” As he evokes a world lit by multiple and masked suns, John Sibley Williams gives us oblique glimpses–objects viewed through the lenses of shadow, halo, dust, and fog. His poetry possesses the lyric power to “…hold together like a mouth/ the hard sea, harder earth,/ and what falls from our hands/ along the way.”
- Paulann Petersen
Oregon Poet Laureate
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John Sibley Williams opens his chapbook with a question: “Why fret the vastness of the world?” His answer is no matter where you are, every moment is an experience uniquely your own. It is regardless of whether you’re in an Alpine meadows, or on the banks of the Danube, or somewhere in Vienna but what you make of the moment that Williams focuses on. “One bouquet takes the place of success, happiness.” This chapbook is very much about living and relishing the moment, wherever that moment happens to be.
- J.P. Dancing Bear
Editor, The American Poetry Journal
I’m honored to the Cream City Review will be publishing my poem “Older Testaments” in their upcoming Spring 2012 issue!
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From Colder Climates
by John Sibley Williams
ISBN 978-1-61019-904-9 (Signature Edition) $12 + shipping
ISBN 978-1-61019-206-4 (Green Edition) $6 + shipping
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In this poetry collection, John Sibley Williams explores the inner and outer landscapes encountered on a journey to Iceland. As with physical landscapes, surprising perspectives are revealed by each step. Lava and ice, civilization and wilderness, family and solitude–these apparent contradictions collide inside poems which beg to be read aloud, just as their Nordic ancestors were around Iceland’s first man made fires.
Pre-orders are open now at our shop; the pre-order period will end on 7 January 2012. Customers who pre-order print copies will receive a free e-edition of the chapbook. Orders will ship beginning 8 January 2012, in the order in which they were received.
This is a limited edition print broadside that features the poem “Winter” from the chapbook FROM COLDER CLIMATES by John Sibley Williams. Only five prints will be made, two of which are available for general sale immediately. Purchase of the broadside will include a Signature Edition of the chapbook. Shipping is included in the price.
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Rebuilding Over and Again, the book trailer for my chapbook “From Colder Climates”:, forthcoming in January 2012 from Folded Word Press.
I’m honored to hear that Folded Word Press has nominated my work for this year’s Pushcart Prize. Special thanks to J.S. Graustein, the Editor-in-Chief!
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I’m honored to find Sugar House Review has accepted my poem ‘Neglect‘ for their forthcoming issue.
Sugar House Review is an independent, semiannual print poetry journal based out of Salt Lake City, Utah.
I’m honored to say The Chaffin Journal has accepted my poem “The Voice in the Shell” for publication in their annual literary magazine.
Wonderful news! I’m honored to hear Bryant Literary Review has accepted two of my new poems for publication in their next issue.
