El Williams III
El Williams III’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Ploughshares, River Styx, Vinyl Poetry & Prose, and elsewhere. Anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2022, he has received fellowships and scholarships from Cave Canem, Community of Writers, Tin House, and the Watering Hole. Currently, he is a dual MFA/MA candidate in poetry and African American & African diaspora studies at Indiana University.
Reading List
Speaking of Rituals
—Jesuit-Nativity, Fall 2016 we begin class with prayer and a conversation about Philando Castile and Alton Sterling and I think, perhaps this time I can play God and provide them an answer. we have come back to August and Minneapolis reeks of blood and spook like Ferguson, Baton Rouge is this summer’s Chicago and at […]