Beth Oast Williams
Poet
A Bit About Beth
Beth Oast Williams is a student with The Muse Writers Center
in Norfolk, Virginia. Her workshop experience includes
Bread Loaf and VQR Writers Conferences and The Fine Arts Work Center. Her work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize.
Poems Available Online
Forthcoming
"His kiss was like the car door closing on my thumb" Fjords Review
"My Sister Thinks Every Butterfly Is Her Dead Husband", New York Quarterly's Without A Doubt: Poems Illustrating Faith, August 2021
"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
"I Knew Better Than To Say", Rattle's Poets Respond
"His Kiss Was Like The Car Door Closing On My Thumb", Fjords Review
"Just Beneath the Surface", The Annapolis Spy
"Eve's Garden" and "Kickball", GASHER Journal
"Searching Elegies", Into the Void
"Watch the Sky" and "Simple Sugar", The Sunlight Press
"On Finding a Spoon in My Lover's Pants Pocket", Burningword Literary Journal
"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
"Gate 6", The Bookends Review
"The Annual Under-Winter Assault", The Coachella Review blog
"Eating Laurices", West Texas Literary Review
"Buried Treasure", Mothers Alway Write
"For the Gone Mother" and "Big Bosomed River", Soft Cartel
Poems Available in Print
"The Hum is Enough", Poetry South
"Heiligenschein" Anglican Theological Review
Elizabeth River Rising" and "To the Sheep", Crab Creek Review
"Paper Streets", Red Earth Review
"Just Beneath the Surface", Delmarva Review
"Rekindle", Plainsongs
"Dirty Laundry", Wisconsin Review
"The Burning", Glass Mountain
"I Thought We Were Cooking Soul Food", Mslexia
"While Puerto Rico Cries", SHANTIH Journal
"Drink in the Morning", Lou Lit
Contests
Palette Poetry's 2020 Sappho Prize for Women Poets - long listed
"Second Grade Mistake", second prize, Poetry Matters Project, May, 2019
Semifinalist, Poet's Billow 2018 Atlantis Award