Greg Williamson (born 1964) is an American poet. He is most known for the invention of the "Double Exposure" form in which one poem can be read three different ways: solely the standard type, solely the bold type in alternating lines, or the combination of the two.^[1][2]

Life[edit]

Williamson grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. He was educated at Vanderbilt University, University of Wisconsin–Madison and Johns Hopkins University.^[3]

He teaches at Johns Hopkins University in the Writing Seminars and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.^[4] He is Associate Editor at Waywiser Press.

Awards[edit]

• 1998 Whiting Award^[5]
• Nathan Haskell Dole Prize
• 1995 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize
• John Atherton Fellowship
• 2004 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters^[6]
• The Best American Poetry 1998^[7]
• Runner-up for NYC Poets' Prize^[8]

Works[edit]

• "The Birdhouse", Verse Daily
• "from Double Exposures", Poetry, August 2000
• The Silent Partner. Story Line Press. 1995. ISBN 978-1-885266-11-8.
• Errors in the Script. Overlook Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1-58567-117-5.
• A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck. Waywiser Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-904130-28-4.

Anthologies[edit]

• John Hollander; David Lehman, eds. (1998). The Best American poetry, 1998. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-81453-7.
• Michael Dumanis; Cate Marvin, eds. (2006). Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century. Sarabande Books. ISBN 978-1-932511-29-1.
• Maggie Anderson; David Hassler, eds. (1999). "Drawing Hands". Learning by heart: contemporary American poetry about school. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-663-6.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation