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<![CDATA[Ruth Williams - News]]>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:19:22 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Flatlands $10 for National Poetry Month]]>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:19:36 GMThttps://www.ruthcwilliams.com/news/flatlands-10-for-national-poetry-month

My poetry collection Flatlands is on sale for $10 during April. It's National Poetry Month! Check out the many other Black Lawrence titles also on sale this month!

]]><![CDATA[Poems @ The Rumpus]]>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:24:39 GMThttps://www.ruthcwilliams.com/news/poems-the-rumpus

I've long admired The Rumpus so I'm super happy they took two of my poems. "Might a Fate Be Changed" and "Decline of the Humanities" are on their website with a bunch of other amazing poems, essays, etc.

]]><![CDATA[Riverfront Reading Series 3/14]]>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:19:49 GMThttps://www.ruthcwilliams.com/news/riverfront-reading-series-314

]]><![CDATA[Creative Writing Pedagogy Chapter]]>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:20:09 GMThttps://www.ruthcwilliams.com/news/creative-writing-pedagogy-chapter

My chapter "Dowsing the Depths, Not Digging the Well,” appears in the newly published Creative Strategies: A Multi-genre Guide to Writing Feedback on Student Manuscripts. In this chapter, I talk about my approach to offering feedback to undergraduate poets in an introductory workshop. Each chapter, including my own, contains student work with feedback for study by readers. This book would be useful to any creative writing teacher who has struggled to find a feedback strategy that is useful to students and not terribly time-consuming.

]]><![CDATA[First Appearance in Villain Era Lit]]>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 16:56:52 GMThttps://www.ruthcwilliams.com/news/first-appearance-in-villain-era-lit

I read The End of the Road last year and it annoyed me, so I wrote this petty little poem. Villain Era Lit was the perfect home for this one.

]]><![CDATA[Poem in Adroit Journal]]>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:03:56 GMThttps://www.ruthcwilliams.com/news/poem-in-adroit-journalMy poem "To the Girl Dancing on the Corner Waiting for the Bus" is in the current issue of The Adroit Journal. It's a poem I wrote after teaching my students Ada Limon's "Downhearted." I'm grateful to that poem for giving me the spark that led to this poem. It helped me process my own sadness at the loss of a student and spin out some hard hope.]]><![CDATA[Credo in Tupelo Quarterly]]>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:30:43 GMThttps://www.ruthcwilliams.com/news/credo-in-tupelo-quarterlyMy poem "Credo," is up on the Tupelo Quarterly website. I wrote this poem a few summers ago in an online workshop with Alicia Mountain. It's inspired by a trip I took to the Ozarks and a stay in a cabin in the woods. ]]><![CDATA[Listen to Ruth Read]]>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:07:18 GMThttps://www.ruthcwilliams.com/news/listen-to-ruth-read

Listen to me read my poems "Solstice" and "Breakthrough" published in The Southern Review Winter 2025 issue. You can listen to other poets read their work as well!

]]><![CDATA[Flatlands on Sale in March]]>Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:24:04 GMThttps://www.ruthcwilliams.com/news/flatlands-on-sale-in-march

Black Lawrence Press is running a sale on select titles, including my collection Flatlands, for Women's History Month. Just under $12 and a portion of the sale goes to the National Women's Law Center.

]]><![CDATA[2 Poems in Southern Review]]>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:53:35 GMThttps://www.ruthcwilliams.com/news/2-poems-in-southern-review

I have two poems in the Winter 2025 issue of The Southern Review: "Solstice" and "Breakthrough." "Breakthrough" is an ekphrastic inspired by the work of painter Samantha French who paints images of people in swimming pools. I love her image "Breakthrough" and a print of it hangs in my office.

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