Background
Williams, Miller was born on April 8, 1930 in Hoxie, Arkansas, United States. Son of Ernest Burdette and Ann Jeanette (Miller) Williams.
( Winner of the prestigious Poets' Prize for 1990, Miller...)
Winner of the prestigious Poets' Prize for 1990, Miller Williams is one of America's most accomplished and productive contemporary poets. In this collection, we find the same wit, intelligence, wisdom, and humanity that readers of poetry have come to expect of Williams. These poems are about the daily lives and language of ordinary people.
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Williams, Miller was born on April 8, 1930 in Hoxie, Arkansas, United States. Son of Ernest Burdette and Ann Jeanette (Miller) Williams.
Bachelor of Science, Arkansas State College, 1951. Master of Science, University Arkansas, 1952. Postgraduate, Louisiana State University, 1951.
Postgraduate, University Mississippi, 1957. HHD (honorary), Lander College, 1983. Doctor of Humane Letters, Hendrix College, 1995.
Instructor in English, Louisiana State University, 1962-1963;
assistant professor, Louisiana State University, 1964-1966;
visiting professor, U. Chile, Santiago, 1963-1964;
associate professor, Loyola University, New Orleans, 1966-1970;
Fulbright professor, National U. Mexico, Mexico City, 1970;
co-director graduate program in creative writing, U. Arkansas, 1970-1984;
associate professor, U. Arkansas, 1971-1973;
Professor of English and foreign languages, director program in translation, U. Arkansas, 1973-1987;
university professor, U. Arkansas, since 1987;
director poetry-in-the prisons programs division continuing education, U. Arkansas, 1974-1979;
chairman program in comparative literature, U. Arkansas, 1978-1980. Director U. Arkansas Press, 1980-1997, Bank of Elkins, Arkansas since 1988. Fellow American Academy in Rome, since 1976, member of advisory county School Classical Studies, 1985-1991;first United States delegate Pan American Conference University Artists and Writers, Concepcion, Chile, 1964.
Invited delegate International Assembly University Press Dirs., Guadalajara, Mexico, 1991. Member poetry staff Bread Loaf Writers Conference, 1967-1972. Founder, executive director Arkansas Poetry Circuit, 1975.
Participant Association American University Presses Soviet Mission, 1989.
( Winner of the prestigious Poets' Prize for 1990, Miller...)
(Third book of poems by this eminent Southerner and proud ...)
(Poems deal with teachers, mortality, nature, storytelling...)
(Poems deal with teachers, mortality, nature, storytelling...)
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Member American Civil Liberties Union. Member Modern Language Association, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, American Association of University Professors, South Control Modern Language Association, American Literature Translators Association (Vice-President 1978-1979, president 1979-1981), Authors' Guild, Society Benemerito dell'Assn.Centro Romanesco Trilussa (Rome).
Married Lucille Day, December 29, 1951 (divorced). Married Rebecca Jordan Hall, April 11, 1969. Children: Lucinda, Robert, Karyn.