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DEAR HEART published by BOTTLECAP PRESS

LIGHTNING JAZZ out from RADIO GURL RECORDS

FIELD HOLLER out from NO ALOHA RECORDS

I-40 PRIMAL SCREAM THERAPY out from BOTTLECAP PRESS

BECAUSE I HAVE TO out from RADIO GURL RECORDS

MF GENIUS EP out from FLAK RECORDS

MARKING & PLATING’S “ZERO VAGUE”

DAILY WORKER’S “BURN IT ALL DOWN (SONGS FOR COREY)”

HAROLD WHIT WILLIAMS: SELECTED POEMS IS AVAILABLE!

AUTOFICTION review in Bandcamp

IRISH GOODBYE — KUTX SONG OF THE DAY!

NEW DAILY WORKER single IRISH GOODBYE

A RAIN ANCESTRAL : poems — now available from San Antonio Review Press!

NEW DAILY WORKER ALBUM — MAY DAY — AVAILABLE ON MAY 1, 2022

https://dailyworker.bandcamp.com/

Harold Whit Williams teams up with The Gamble Brothers as GERVIN – your new favorite funk/soul band! CHANCE MUSIC EP now on Bandcamp

NEW DAILY WORKER SINGLE AVAILABLE — MY DRUG

MY DRUG EP OUT NOW!

Harold Whit Williams’ first short story collection is out from San Antonio Review Press.

MEL BAY’S BOOK OF THE DEAD

My Heavens wins the 2020 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize!

HOMETOWN HERO – 10 Songs from SHELTER IN TAPES – rerecorded in Majestic Hi-Fidelity

Harold Whit Williams is feverishly 4-tracking and posting quarantined Lo-Fi recordings EXCLUSIVELY ON BANDCAMP – SHELTER IN TAPES – all proceeds going to select charities.

Also, all royalties from the download or stream of MY HEAVENS goes to Color of Change.

bio

Born and raised in musically renowned Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Harold Whit Williams is a prize-winning poet and the longtime guitarist for indie rock band Cotton Mather. A session musician for numerous Austin, TX artists over the years, his lo-fi solo project/band Daily Worker has taken off with multiple albums and accolades received (not to mention his Marmoset Music funk/soul/rock recording project GERVIN feat. superstar brothers Al and Chad Gamble, ambient project The French Riot, no-wave duo MARKING & PLATING, and others). Williams is head of Metadata Services at the University of Texas Libraries, and in his spare time he focuses on cataloging sound recordings of the KUT Collection.

poetry and prose

Harold Whit Williams is the author of ten books, and his literary prizes include the 2020 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize from Texas Review Press, as well as multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. His poems and stories have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies.

His latest poetry collection, Dear Heart, is available from Bottlecap Press.

PURCHASE:

I-40 Primal Scream Therapy

Harold Whit Williams: Selected Poems

A Rain Ancestral

Mel Bay’s Book of the Dead

My Heavens

Red Clay Journal

Lost in the Telling

Backmasking

Waiting For The Fire To Go Out

POEMS ONLINE at