William Ward Butler

Writer, educator, poetry editor @frozenseapoetry | chapbook Life History out from @ghostcitypress | mostly on Instagram now | at | williamwardbutler

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

6/4/26 “they’re dead,
the flowers, the water only delays
their dying.”
@WilliamWButler

[Bennington Review @BennReview]

If you make a promise you can’t keep
don’t call it a lie, call it a good faith violation

-William Ward Butler, "Keywords"

@williamwardbutler

https://t.co/HnYPr2eNwj

[Bennington Review @BennReview]

Unfortunately, it only takes
one person to change history.

-William Ward Butler, "Church of Anthrax"
@WilliamWButler

Read the rest of the poem in Issue Fourteen💫

https://t.co/k6E2HqoKsf

[Shō Poetry Journal @sho_journal]

Here’s the full cover for our upcoming issue, Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/25), which features 57 poems by 40 poets. Our contributors are threaded below!
https://t.co/7wtq8snTmO

Saida Agostini
Jubril Badmus (@lanrebrodsky)
Jo Bear (@johannabear35)
Tianna Bratcher . . .

[Frozen Sea @frozenseapoetry]

Congratulations to @samsax1 — their novel YR DEAD is longlisted for the @nationalbook Award in Fiction!

Read Frozen Sea's review of the book here: https://t.co/Zey7Lcuqqq

[Frozen Sea @frozenseapoetry]

@addiemahmassani did a wonderful write up in @goodtimessc about Frozen Sea, including:

- what inspired co-editors @williamwbutler and @jacksondmoorman to create Frozen Sea
- a quote from contributor Kristin Lueke
- a poem from contributor @StefanieTsabar

https://t.co/ANtfd35SYb

[William Ward Butler @WilliamWButler]

A gorgeous poem from Stuart Rawlinson (@averagegatsby_ ) after @RichieHof

[Frozen Sea @frozenseapoetry]

Pernod - Stuart Rawlinson @averagegatsby_

[William Ward Butler @WilliamWButler]

@calamityjaz i have a few submissions that have been pending for so long i started my own journal and published five issues of it in the meantime 💀

[William Ward Butler @WilliamWButler]

@MrSteveEngHenn Totally! My main thing is that having a long lead time for poetry getting published is detrimental to journals, who may lose readership if they're extremely slow to publish, and poets, who aren't helped by having their poems languishing in Submittable

[Ghost City Press @GhostCityPress]

Download all 50 titles from the 2024 Ghost City Press Summer Micro-Chapbook Series at once! The complete collection is available for download here: https://t.co/uvsIZruZI7

[Frozen Sea @frozenseapoetry]

Issue Five is officially out!

Head on over to https://t.co/lCxWrFdg18 to read/listen to all Issue Five poems in their full glory today & stay tuned here for shareable videos of each piece over the next weeks🪓🧊🌊

[William Ward Butler @WilliamWButler]

So cool to have this excellent write-up on @frozenseapoetry in @metronewspaper and @GoodTimesSC!

Thank you to @addiemahmasani for getting what we're all about 🌊🧊🪓

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https://t.co/kkperBK2QH

[William Ward Butler @WilliamWButler]

I have a digital micro-chapbook out today with @GhostCityPress – free to download!

https://t.co/j8ZfTovxdj

[Ghost City Press @GhostCityPress]

PLEASURES OF THE FLESH by @WilliamWButler is out today as part of the 2024 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: https://t.co/sufux20z3L

[Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero]

Love this one @WilliamWButler @fourteenpoems

[thee black sylvia plath @NotNowNicole]

very happy to have my poem "haze" published in Issue Four of @frozenseapoetry today 🌫️🌊

https://t.co/bQFYIC3eRg

[Frozen Sea @frozenseapoetry]

Issue Four of Frozen Sea is out now! https://t.co/HQIH2SjWo1

[Frozen Sea @frozenseapoetry]

Coming to a sea near you …

https://t.co/lCxWrFdNQG

🌊🧊🪓

[William Ward Butler @WilliamWButler]

Excited to have a poem in this issue 🥳

[fourteenpoems @fourteenpoems]

Issue 13 cover and line-up reveal! Cant wait for you to read these brilliant, exciting, moving, celebratory, thrilling poems - in all their lime and grape glory. There’s love, hope, memory, bodies, reclamation and a whole load more ideas. Pre-order at the site! Full list: (1)

[Frozen Sea @frozenseapoetry]

Answering the Phone Over Miley Cyrus's Bangerz - Meredith MacLeod Davidson @mairmacleod