Writer, educator, poetry editor @frozenseapoetry | chapbook Life History out from @ghostcitypress | mostly on Instagram now | at | williamwardbutler
Joined February 2015
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William Ward Butler retweeted
6/4/26 “they’re dead,
the flowers, the water only delays
their dying.”
@WilliamWButler
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William Ward Butler retweeted
29 Aug 2025
If you make a promise you can’t keep
don’t call it a lie, call it a good faith violation
-William Ward Butler, "Keywords"
@williamwardbutler
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William Ward Butler retweeted
29 Aug 2025
Unfortunately, it only takes
one person to change history.
-William Ward Butler, "Church of Anthrax"
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Read the rest of the poem in Issue Fourteen💫
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William Ward Butler retweeted
21 Dec 2024
Here’s the full cover for our upcoming issue, Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/25), which features 57 poems by 40 poets. Our contributors are threaded below!
bit.ly/shono6
Saida Agostini
Jubril Badmus (@lanrebrodsky)
Jo Bear (@johannabear35)
Tianna Bratcher . . .
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William Ward Butler retweeted
13 Sep 2024
Congratulations to @samsax1 — their novel YR DEAD is longlisted for the @nationalbook Award in Fiction!
Read Frozen Sea's review of the book here: frozensea.org/yr-dead-sam-sa…
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William Ward Butler retweeted
9 Sep 2024
@addiemahmassani did a wonderful write up in @goodtimessc about Frozen Sea, including:
- what inspired co-editors @williamwbutler and @jacksondmoorman to create Frozen Sea
- a quote from contributor Kristin Lueke
- a poem from contributor @StefanieTsabar
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William Ward Butler retweeted
17 Aug 2024
Download all 50 titles from the 2024 Ghost City Press Summer Micro-Chapbook Series at once! The complete collection is available for download here: ghostcitypress.com/2024-summ…
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William Ward Butler retweeted
15 Aug 2024
Issue Five is officially out!
Head on over to frozensea.org to read/listen to all Issue Five poems in their full glory today & stay tuned here for shareable videos of each piece over the next weeks🪓🧊🌊
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14 Aug 2024
So cool to have this excellent write-up on @frozenseapoetry in @metronewspaper and @GoodTimesSC!
Thank you to @addiemahmasani for getting what we're all about 🌊🧊🪓
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23 Jul 2024
I have a digital micro-chapbook out today with @GhostCityPress – free to download!
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William Ward Butler retweeted
23 Jul 2024
PLEASURES OF THE FLESH by @WilliamWButler is out today as part of the 2024 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2024-summ…
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William Ward Butler retweeted
15 Apr 2024
Issue Four of Frozen Sea is out now! frozensea.org/issue-four
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25 Mar 2024
Excited to have a poem in this issue 🥳
25 Mar 2024
Issue 13 cover and line-up reveal! Cant wait for you to read these brilliant, exciting, moving, celebratory, thrilling poems - in all their lime and grape glory. There’s love, hope, memory, bodies, reclamation and a whole load more ideas. Pre-order at the site! Full list: (1)
ALT Cover of issue 13 of fourteen poems which is lime with purple writing, on a white background.
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William Ward Butler retweeted
18 Mar 2024
Answering the Phone Over Miley Cyrus's Bangerz - Meredith MacLeod Davidson @mairmacleod
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William Ward Butler retweeted
22 Feb 2024
Issue 35 highlight from @WilliamWButler's poem, "Gale."
Read the full piece and the rest of the issue at the link in bio✨
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17 Feb 2024
Excited to have this essay on starting @frozenseapoetry with @jacksondmoorman published in Omnium Gatherum Quarterly through @commofwriters
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