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Dare Williams

@dare-williams.bsky.social
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queer | poz | poet | jazz head | associate poetry editor @thehooliganmag MFA @WarrenWilsonMFA writings/workings at DareWilliams.com

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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Two types of gays tonight in Los Angeles: Robyn at the Forum or Laurie Anderson at the Orpheum
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Used to be one of the rotten ones and I liked you for that….
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Once again it’s “should I get a PHD?” time
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Thank you always!
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
poets.org/poem/zero-hour Thank you to @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social
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Zero Hour
I heard celebration sex in the shadows
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
It’s hard being a Neil Young gay in a Zara Larsson world
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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Thinking of my time last month in Virginia
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Maybe this won’t be seen because im rarely here but @grantamag.bsky.social should be so embarrassed and that response is terrible. What a stain on our literary community today.
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Spent time in the field with feelings and my friend Travis who took these with his Hasselblad
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
♥️
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The thing is, I love you all but I am drowning in Substacks
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Hinge showing me the profile of a friend of mine who I know is very not alive and saying we are most compatible is exactly how my dating life is going 🙃
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -Assata Shakur
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BOA Editions @boa-editions.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
📣 NEW RELEASE ALERT! 📣 Boa Editions is thrilled to announce that Aracelis Girmay's new collection of poetry GREEN OF ALL HEADS is out now! We have signed paperbacks and hardcovers for sale on our store in limited supply! Purchase yourself a copy today at boaeditions.org. Spread the word🍃
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Thank you Wolf and all @redhotorg.bsky.social. TRANSA is such a beautiful project and great to celebrate last night at The Getty.
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Some evenings you come home and you just need to hear Nina Simone. That voice, that ache.
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
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Three Poems by Dare Williams
[ Crook of My Elbow, Cotton-Balled, Band-aid Covering, Out the Car Window ]  Crook of my elbow, cotton-balled, band-aid covering, out the car window, dangles in public smelling of clinic, no n…
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
3 new poems up at @villaineralit.
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Patricia Smith @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
September 30!
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Sending a transmission from downtown Los Angeles— it’s very intense here and swelling. We are in the thick of it fighting back.
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
oh well
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If you keep a journal, the time passing will always make a shape -Alice Notley
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I am qualified for giving you pain by telling the truth -Alice Notley
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Being made to be a sniper by the American government is a very public thing - Alice Notley
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Too much has happened to me -Alice Notley
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🖤 ALICE 🖤
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Erasure poems using a copy of Polysecure
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
April 22nd is Earth Day. Get a copy of the new IOE anthology, Ecobloomspaces. Great work by poets such as @jjrancourt.bsky.social @dare-williams.bsky.social @kelliagodon.bsky.social and many more. Purchase here: buff.ly/Qr67DPH #writingcommunity
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
If you’re all edges, are you edgy?
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open there no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will. - Czesław Miłosz
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This anthology from @ironoakeditions.bsky.social dropped at AWP - thank you for giving this poem a home and glad to share pages with many talents.
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The ides of March… if only
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I have 2 new poems in @birdcoatquarterly.bsky.social thank you for giving them a home. A poem made at @vermontstudioctr.bsky.social after a cruisey encounter and another about HIV in the body, art making and historical disconnection. www.birdcoatquarterly.com/post/dare-wi...
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
On March 19, hear former #ExpoReview Poetry Editor @cdeskilson.bsky.social read from their debut poetry collection SCREAM / QUEEN at Skylight Books, with a double #ExpoContributor bonus of Edwin Bodney & @dare-williams.bsky.social & Sarah Ellen Fowler: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig...!
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
@cdeskilson.bsky.social has written a force of a book and I’m so excited to be a part of the celebration 🖤🖤🖤
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“ Death begins at birth…and escalates at dinner parties”
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
because of the fucking reticence of this world -Jean Valentine
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Inspired to listen to @dare-williams.bsky.social read his poem ETYMOLOGY (bit.ly/ExpoEtymology) in #Transposition, our podcast, born out of COVID & the need to celebrate our 2020 annual issue writers in a bigger way than sheltering in place allowed. Listen here: expositionreview.com/issues/vol-v....
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Etymology - Exposition Review
by Dare Williams   |    Poetry   it starts in phoenix growing in the dark moves its way to you then leaves me breathless in hollywood where we laid our heads there was a break & I said ok let you driv...
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Be unformatable
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Let’s gooooo!!!! @terivela.bsky.social
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I’m so ready
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Wait… is this place pronounced Bloo- skye or Bloo-skee
wait.it
wait.it
This domain may be for sale!
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Listening to Coltrane. Cooking dinner. The little joys.
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
AbracaDebra would be an amazing drag name
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Something I can say from my 43 years on this earth is when fashion turns toward office core, it’s always a sign that a recession is near 🙃
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