https://williamwardbutler.com/home daily 1.0 2026-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55de4aaee4b04e9d1062d385/1655935335589-AOOYU4Y2M3593QDOM5H2/80892.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55de4aaee4b04e9d1062d385/1fd1af0b-6701-4f61-9630-f4960d319749/SmallerForWebsite.jpg Home - 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. Photo by Nicholas Nichols https://williamwardbutler.com/publications daily 0.75 2026-06-10 https://williamwardbutler.com/press daily 0.75 2026-03-15 https://williamwardbutler.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55de4aaee4b04e9d1062d385/165d4169-2053-4a04-8285-20530de53fc8/Screen+Shot+2023-09-08+at+10.18.49+PM.png Contact - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://williamwardbutler.com/high-school-consulting daily 0.75 2024-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55de4aaee4b04e9d1062d385/165f031c-eef2-4860-ae7e-5b0b3d5047ef/WWB_Headshot.jpg High School Consulting I am an 8th grade English teacher at Saint Andrew's Episcopal School in Saratoga, and the current poet laureate of Los Gatos. I have a master’s in education from UC Santa Cruz and have been teaching for over 5 years.