we're not in a road movie / the open road did not call / and we did not refuse it / no atonement nor apotheosis / and no road back
When their urban precinct is designated for removal by the Deep Belief Network, several strangers leave on foot, seemingly urged toward a lost arcadian landscape by an unreliable chorus of cicadas.
Evan D. Williams investigates the quandaries of the numinous and carnal self in a range of documental forms.
His writing has appeared in over fifty publications, including Number, Antennae, Africanah, Lychee Rind, The Ovid Gazette, Punt Volat, and The Sweet Tree Review.
Dear Excavator, his first full-length book, was published by April Gloaming in 2021. Not All the Leopards Are Metaphors, his second collection, was launched in 2024. Brackmeadow: A Poem in Dialogue, was published by Bottlecap Press in 2025.
He has also produced several unique image–text books and zines, including Everything Material (2020, Ruskin Library, Oxford), Terminal Proposals (2023, De Kunstenbibliotheek, Ghent), and Hover States (2025, DobraVaga × Zine Vitrine, Ljubljana).
Williams resides in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains with his wife and cats. He is at work on his next poetry manuscript, A Commentary on United States v. One Black Horse.