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 Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, Five Points, Hunger Mountain, Switchyard, 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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