Black Life: Tyrone Williams

Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil

Cincinnati-based poet Tyrone Williams reads his work in advance of the release of his sixth book of poetry, As Iz.

Tyrone Williams teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of several chapbooks and five books of poetry: c.c., On Spec, The Hero Project of the Century, and Adventures of Pi and Howell. A limited-edition art project, Trump l’oeil, was published by Hostile Books in 2017. A new book of poetry, As Iz, is forthcoming from Omnidawn Publishing in fall 2018.