Miller Williams (April 8, 1930 – January 1, 2015) was an American contemporary poet, as well as a translator and editor. He wrote over 25 books and won several awards for his poetry. He was perhaps best known for reading a poem at President Clinton's 1997 inauguration. One of his best-known poems was "The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina."

Williams suffered from spina bifida.^[1] He died in Fayetteville, Arkansas from Alzheimer's disease, aged 84.

Books

• A Circle of Stone, 1965
• So Long at the Fair, 1968
• Halfway from Hoxie, 1973
• Why God Permits Evil, 1977, Louisiana State University Press
• The Boys on Their Bony Mules, 1983, Louisiana State University Press
• Patterns of Poetry, 1986, Louisiana State University Press
• Living on the Surface, 1989
• Adjusting to the Light, 1992, University of Missouri Press
• Points of Departure, 1994
• The Ways We Touch: Poems, 1997, University of Illinois Press
• Some Jazz a While: Collected Poems, 1999, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 978-0-252-06774-7
• Making a Poem: Some Thoughts About Poetry and the People Who Write It, 2006, Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 978-0-8071-3132-9
• Time and the Tilting Earth: Poems, 2008, Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 978-0-8071-3353-8

Related pages

• List of poets from North America