C. K. Williams

• Born: 1936
• Birthplace: New Jersey

Poet C.K. Williams is a Pulitzer Prize-winner for his collection of poetry, Repair. His Flesh and Blood earned him the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and The Vigil was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania, he currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University and lives part of the year in Paris.

Williams has published five works of translation: Selected Poems of Francis Ponge (1994); Canvas, by Adam Zagajewski (with Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry, 1991); The Bacchae of Euripides (1990); The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and Women of Trachis, by Sophocles (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978).

Among other awards Williams has received are the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1989), a Lila Acheson Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund Writer's Award (1992), the Harriet Monroe Prize from Poetry magazine (1993), the PEN/Voelker Career Achievement in Poetry Award (1998), and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature (1999). He has also received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Most Famous Works

• Tar (1983)
• Flesh and Blood (1987)
• A Dream of Mind (1992)
• The Vigil (1996)
• Repair (1999)
• The Singing (2003)

Charles Kenneth Williams (b. November 4, 1936, Newark, New Jersey) is an American poet.

He graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and received his higher education at the University of Pennsylvania. He began his career as a poet in the early 1960s.

Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Repair (1999) was a National Book Award finalist and won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the National Book Award in 2003. In 2005, he was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. In 2008 he contributed to From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright.

His highly readable poetic style involves long lines of unrhyming free verse. His subjects are modern and predominately urban.

He teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University, and divides his time between Princeton and Paris.

Bibliography

• Lies - 1969
• Tar - 1983
• Flesh and Blood - 1987 (National Book Critics Circle Award)
• The Bacchae of Euripides
• A Dream of Mind - 1992
• I am the Bitter Name - 1992
• Selected Poems - 1994
• With Ignorance - 1997
• The Vigil - 1997
• Poetry and Consciousness - 1998
• Repair - 1999 (National Book Award finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize)
• Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself - 2000
• The Singing - 2003
• Collected Poems - 2006

External links

• C.K. Williams reading his poetry at TED conference
• C.K. Williams at the 3rd Area Reading Series at PHARMAKA Gallery, downtown Los Angeles, 3/19/2009 - as featured on Poetry.LA

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