On the sermons of Tyrone Williams
A lay preacher, as well as the distinguished poet, critic, and English professor I had known him to be, Tyrone had delivered the sermons at the Winton Community Free Methodist Church in Cincinnati, where he worshipped from 1987, when he began teaching full time at Xavier, until he took his position as a distinguished chair in the English Department at Buffalo in Spring 2022.
Six months after Tyrone Williams died from cancer at age seventy on March 11, 2024, I accessed the texts of seventeen sermons he had composed and that were now housed in the “Theological, 2001-2021” section of his archive at SUNY Buffalo.
Manuel Brito, editor of Zasterle Press (Canary Islands) interviewed me for a special issue of Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses on "
Canary Islands Connection: 60 American Poets, edited by Manuel Brito
Manuel Brito has edited a collection of poems by many of the authors of his long-running poetry book series, which over its years has been one of the best publishers of American poetry. Many of the poems are written specifically for Brito or Zesterle. Check out the Zesterle web site here. Some of these books re distributed by SPD.
Now available at SPD.