William Ward Butler
is the poet laureate of Los Gatos, California.
He is the author of the chapbook Life History from Ghost City Press. A finalist for The Arkansas International’s C.D. Wright Prize for Poetry and Terrain.org’s Annual Poetry Contest, his recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Bennington Review, Five Points, Hunger Mountain, RHINO, and other journals.
He is the co-creator of Frozen Sea, an online poetry journal publishing exceptional work from early-career poets in a mobile-friendly format. He is also a poetry reader for TriQuarterly, the literary magazine of Northwestern University.
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