*Nominated for the Library of Virginia Poetry Award!
*Winner of FIVE Poetry Society of Virginia Awards *Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
Images don't always integrate. They contrast, collide, even do battle. This is the idea behind the poems in faceOFF--things somehow at odds with other things, images that can behave badly, that don't always work and play well with others...
Tom Williams' poetry has been featured in such publications as Abbey, Blue Collar Review, Crooked River Press, Hayden's Ferry Review, Impetus, Mudfish, Stray Dog, and Virginia Adversaria.
in a crumbling stone tower.
An old man pulls the bell rope
to the chime of our long
mute songs. The tolling
stops. In silence
we're left to hide.'" 

--from "The Hill"