Miami University – Leonard Theater – Oxford, Ohio – 9.22.05
Tyrone Williams teaches literary theory and literature at Xavier University in Cincinnati,Ohio, where he chairs the English Department. He has published articles, reviews and poetry in a number of national journals, including Callaloo, The Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, River Styx, Multicultural Review, Long News, The World, and Obsidian.
He has published a book of poems, c.c. (Krupskaya), two chapbooks of poetry, CONVALESCENCE and AAB (Slack Buddha Press), and co-edited a collection of writings by the homeless in Cincinnati. He is currently completing two books on quotation in modern art and rap music and the public. He is a featured poet in the forthcoming Miami University press anthology Rainbow Darkness, which celebrates the Diversity in African American Poetry Conference held at Miami in 2003, at which Williams presented a memorable reading.