(who now has absconded w/ all the plaster mannequins & set the canal on fire?)
Evan D. Williams is a member of the rote middle intelligentsia; he is trying to be more of an artist and less of a menace. In his first full-length collection, Dear Excavator (Nashville: April Gloaming, 2021), Williams “maps out a constellation of desire” (Susan Nguyen). Williams’s texts have also appeared in such journals as Antennae, Pursuing Performance, and The Ovid Gazette, as well as various ashcans, superdomes, and Chinese cabarets. He lives with his one wife and two cats in the foothills of the Appalachians and maintains a writing studio nearby, in the former command post of a cake empire.
COLLECTION: DEAR EXCAVATOR · APRIL GLOAMING ⁂ EDITED ANTHOLOGY: DELIVER ME · PRIVATELY PRINTED ⁂ UNIQUE VOLUMES: DO THE NEEDFUL · SVA LIBRARY | EVERYTHING MATERIAL · RUSKIN LIBRARY AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY | OR / WE · BROOKLYN ART LIBRARY ⁂ JOURNALS & BROADSIDES: 30 FOLDS (WHEN ATMOSPHERE BECOMES […] A SURFACE FOR INSCRIPTION) · DOWNSTAIRS ZINE FEST | “A DRAFTSMAN’S EERY THINGS” · LYCHEE RIND | “A QUESTION FOR THE NEW GIRL” · STILLWATER MAGAZINE | “AFTER OVID” / “CITY OF THE SIGNIFIED; OR, A NOCTURNE IN MAGNETIC CURRENTS” · SWEET TREE REVIEW | “AN EXOPLANET COALESCES INTO PHANTASMS” / “SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE” / “THE ONE ABOUT THE HAND OF FATE” / “WHAT ARE THE THINGS YOU SEEK SINCE YOU LEAVE ALL THE WORLD TO FIND THEM” · NONSITE | “AN UNKNOWN PLACE” (WITH MEREDITH C. BULLOCK) · MUD SEASON REVIEW | “& BEYOND” / “BEAUTIFUL BOLSHEVIK RADIATION & OTHER THINGS THAT ARE THINGS” / “I COULD HAVE BEEN A RIOT GRRRL” / “THE SNOWBALL EARTH” / “TO PIECES” · COAST|NOCOAST | “BIRCHBARK” · ITHACALIT | “FIREPROOF” · PINKY THINKER | “(FROM A SONG)” · AMERICAN SONGWRITER | “FROM THE VEIN OF ORE” · TOMPKINS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY 2021 | “HELLO, I’M” / “RIVERSONG WAS THE FIRST COMPLINE” · TOMPKINS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY 2019 | “HELSINKI BETWEEN THE WARS” / “SECOND EPISTLE” / “TOWARD A HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGY OF NIGHTTIME SWIMMERS” · DETRITUS | “HEY MARQUETTE” · PENNED PARENTHOOD | “LOST IN TRANSLATION” / “MY EGYPT” / “SHOWTIME AT THE ODEON” / “TEN P.M. ON THE UPJOHN FARM” / “THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS” / “THRONG” · TIPTON POETRY JOURNAL | “████████” · THE MARTIAN CHRONICLE | “ᴺᴼ ᴼᴺᴱ ᵀᴴᴱᴿᴱ ᵀᴼ ᵀᴱᴸᴸ ᵁˢ” · MIRACLE MONOCLE | THE FEUDAL HORN · INNOCENCE PROJECT | “THE POETS” · HARTSKILL REVIEW | “TUILERIES, APRIL 1968” · PUNT VOLAT ⁂ SONGWRITING: GIVE ME A WAY · JUMPSTART HARVEY RECORDS | HOME AGAIN · JUMPSTART HARVEY RECORDS/HOBBY-HORSE RECORDS | NO CREATURE IN THE WORLD · PRIVATELY PUBLISHED | REMNANTS · PRIVATELY PUBLISHED | THEY JUST KEPT FINDING EMPTY BOTTLES · JUMPSTART HARVEY RECORDS/HOBBY-HORSE RECORDS ⁂ SELECTED SCHOLARSHIP, CRITICISM & COPYWRITING: AFRICANAH | ALLWOMENSTALK | ANAMESA | ANTENNAE | ARMS AND ARMOR AUCTIONS | CAL POLY POMONA | CANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF THE FINGER LAKES | CAPITAL ONE | CHALLENGE WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS | DOUBLE CLOVER LTD. | DOWNTOWN ITHACA ALLIANCE | ESTATE OF STEVE POLESKIE | ETHOS | FINGER LAKES FARMSTEAD CHEESE CO. | IEEE | KADIE SALFI | NEW ORLEANS SAINTS × OCHSNER HEALTH | NUMBER | PAIN IN THE CANAL | PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTOR’S GUIDE | PURSUING PERFORMANCE | RICE UNIVERSITY | SOMPOホールディングス | SOTHEBY’S | STUART LUTZ HISTORIC DOCUMENTS | SUZANNE ONODERA | THE CHIMERA BOOK | THE TATTLER | WILLIAMS FINE ART | WORTH ASSET BROKERAGE ⁂ READINGS: INTERNATIONAL ILLUSTRATION SYMPOSIUM | LIVING WITH ANIMALS | PHOTO HISTORY/PHOTO FUTURE | SECAC | SPRING WRITES LITERARY FESTIVAL | TOMPKINS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY READATHON ⁂ AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES: AMERICAN SONGWRITER LYRIC CONTEST | CUNA DIAMOND AWARD | GULNAR BOSCH TRAVEL ASSISTANCE AWARD | ITHACA COLLEGE ANNUAL WRITING CONTEST | ITHACA COLLEGE ART HISTORY PAPER PRIZE | NYU DEAN’S TRAVEL GRANT | OVERLAND RESIDENCY