William Woolfitt's poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in AGNI, Blackbird, Tin House, The Threepenny Review, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of three poetry collections, including Spring Up Everlasting (Mercer University Press, 2020).

Other poems by William Woolfitt in Verse Daily:

Books by William Woolfitt:

Other poems on the web by William Woolfitt:
Five poems
"The Night the Rain Had Nowhere to Go"
"1912: Hush Harbor"
"Tether"

William Woolfitt's Website.

William Woolfitt on Twitter.

About Spring Up Everlasting:

"William Woolfitt crafts a gorgeous lyric, braiding hymn-drenched, pastoral imagery with sonorous music made of our bones. These precise poems read as if Elizabeth Bishop had been born again. Woolfitt will take you to the river and take you to church. He will make you believe that poetry is the sacred portrait, a way of seeing and feeling holiness in the violent landscape of our hearts."
—Tiana Clark

"William Woolfitt's poems are bracing: this line a cold gust, that line sure as gravity. They feel as much hewn by a human hand as they feel unearthed, unembedded—raw, whole, and real. In one poem, we observe a man gently collect a dead finch into a plastic specimen bag from which 'he eased the extra air.' In this way, Woolfitt stretches language across his lines. Such closeness, such captivation. Read this book to see more clearly, to feel how much you love the world."
—Ida Stewart

"I fell in absolute love with William Woolfitt's SPRING UP EVERLASTING and his naturalist's eye, his imagery, the lushness amidst disaster, economic, ecological, and personal. Woolfitt listens carefully to the sounds of the natural world and finds his place within it. He sings every aching note."
— Jenn Givhan