Beth Oast Williams
Poems Available Online
"Bone Content", "Bored Games", "How The Dead Keep Us Spinning", "Throwing Sorrow At The Wall", "Daily Rations", Mud Season Review
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"Un-rooted", Madison Review
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"Pinball" and "Reaching For Forgiveness", Adanna Literary Review
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"Horticulture", Sweet: A Literary Confection
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"Shell Casings", Roanoke Review
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"Bite Your Tongue", Dialogist
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"Confession", "Split", and "Eve Is Always The Day Before It Happens", One Art
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"Sympathy Card", River and South Review
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"Baggy Blue Sweatshirt", Banyan Review
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"Cherry Picking", Good River Review
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"God, Diagnosed With Dementia", Invisible City
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"Dusk Meditation", Sky Island Journal
"This Fall", River Heron Review
"Finding Myself Lost In A Forest Myth", Leon Literary Review
"Scaping", Breakwater Review
"Where There Is Thirst", SWWIM Everyday
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"Covers", Pensive: a Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts
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"In Search Of A Container For Jesus" and "A Hole In The Poem", Amethyst Review
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"The Storm", The Adirondack Review
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"Childhood Memories Thrown In A Jar", Sweet Tree Review
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"Formation", "Fly, Pictarnie", and "Mary Sue Arranges Things", Orchards Poetry Journal
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"Mom Self-Distances By Writing Poems In The Grass", Gyroscope
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"Self Portrait With Open Palms And Ice Cubes", Hawaii Pacific Review
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"I Knew Better Than To Say", Rattle's Poets Respond
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"His Kiss Was Like The Car Door Closing On My Thumb", Fjords Review
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"Just Beneath the Surface", The Annapolis Spy
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"Eve's Garden" and "Kickball", GASHER Journal
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"Searching Elegies", Into the Void
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"Watch the Sky" and "Simple Sugar", The Sunlight Press
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"On Finding a Spoon in My Lover's Pants Pocket", Burningword Literary Journal
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"Here's a Goody Bag, Now Get Lost", "Making Eye Contact", "Mother's Death is Hard to Swallow", "Not seeing your face", and "The End of the Rope", Willard and Maple
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"Gate 6", The Bookends Review
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"The Annual Under-Winter Assault", The Coachella Review blog
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Poems Available in Print
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"Poem As Lap Dance", Salamander
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"Sagittarius Puts Down His Bow", Nimrod
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"Carved Art Birds" and "Philanthropy For The End Times", New South
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"Nurse Logging", Writing The Land: Virginia
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"Whispers In The Woods", Writing The Land: Wandersings II
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"These Stars, Now Your Mother's Eyes" and "Whelks Are Most Often Mistaken For Conchs", Texas Review Press The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. IX, Virginia, Fall, 2022
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"Miss Grace", Comstock Review
"Gravity Gone, And I Should Have Sounded An Alarm", Channel Magazine
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"Thirteen Jurors", Jabberwock Review
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"We ask wedding guests to wear flats", North Dakota Quarterly
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"Sadness Knows When A Tone Is Overused", Main Street Rag
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"The Hum is Enough", Poetry South
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"Heiligenschein" Anglican Theological Review
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Elizabeth River Rising" and "To the Sheep", Crab Creek Review
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"Paper Streets", Red Earth Review
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"Just Beneath the Surface", Delmarva Review
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"Rekindle", Plainsongs
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"Dirty Laundry", Wisconsin Review
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"The Burning", Glass Mountain
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"I Thought We Were Cooking Soul Food", Mslexia
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"While Puerto Rico Cries", SHANTIH Journal
"Drink in the Morning", Lou Lit
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Contests
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2023 Ashland Poetry Press, Finalist for The Source Of Dew
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2023 Atlanta Review International Merit Award Winner
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2023 Yellow Arrow Publishing, shortlisted for Cherry Picking
2023 Midway Journal 1000 Below Semi-finalist
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​Poetry Society of Virginia 2022, JoAnn Scott Kennedy Memorial, Third place for "One Bee Decided To Sting"
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2021 Grayson Books Poetry Prize, Longlisted for A Bouquest Of Standing Birds
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2020 Gasher Journal, Pushcart Prize nominee for "Kickball"
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Palette Poetry's 2020 Sappho Prize for Women Poets - long listed
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2019 West Texas Literary Review, Pushcart Prize nominee for "Eating Laurie's"
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