Current Projects

Update X (2023-2024)

Tyrone Williams in Memoriam

at The MUD Proposal & Kaurab
Sep, 2024

On March 11, 2024, we lost a great poet, scholar and generous friend, Tyrone Williams. He passed from an aggressive form of cancer that left little time for us to process the tragic loss. This was an unfortunate and abrupt end to a life we feel set an example for us all–thinking critically, connecting with others across differences, and committing to the poetry community through reading and responding to other writers and thinkers.

The last conversation we both had with Tyrone was together a few days before he passed. We reminisced about past events and the challenging work of connecting across languages and cultures. He was in hospice at the home of his close friends at that time, extremely weak and tired. However, he still recognized friends and retained his sense of humor until the end.

We are taking this opportunity to compile all his appearances in Kaurab and the MUD Proposal in order to share and preserve his legacy.

To explore Tyrone’s legacy further, his literary archive is located at The Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo where a large amount of digital materials are available. Also, a compilation of many of his recordings are hosted at PennSound: Tyrone Williams. We strongly encourage writers and poets across the world to delve into Tyrone’s poetic and critical works as well as his dedication to supporting the community.

Readings

1. The Wash Park Reading with Pat Clifford (Mar 28, 2021)

[ The Wash Park Reading ]

2. Tyrone Williams Reads @ the Kaurab International Poetry Reading Series: (Dec 10, 2009)

[ Kaurab Reading ]

Writing Projects

3. Project: WashPark (Update IV: 2017)

Neither forward, in any sense of the word, nor backward, in any sense of that word, these poems constitute a modest, delimited investigation, an interrogation into the presumption of “progress” underwriting the redevelopment of a public park (Washington Park) located between, as well as among, the business and residential districts in downtown Cincinnati Ohio. As collaborators on the poems vis-à-vis the “suspect”—the business model that supervenes all other spheres of human activity (legal, social, cultural, environmental, etc.) however much this model claims it is always constrained from running roughshod over, for example, actual human bodies----we both play the roles of good cop/bad cop. The crime this perp is suspecting of committing? “Progress.”.....

[ Project: WashPark, A Sample ]

4. The HOGG PROJECT (Update I, 2013)

[ The Hogg Project ]

Book Reviews

5. Tyrone Williams reviews Poems for The Millennium (2010)
(Ed. Jerome Rothenberg & Pierre Joris)

[ Poems for the Millennium Vol.1 ]

6. Tyrone Williams reviews We Are Here (2009)
(by Niels Hav)

[ We Are Here ]

Interviews

7. Tyrone Williams interviewed by Brenda Iijima (2008-2009)

[ Tyrone Williams Interview ]

Subhro Bandopadhyay Reading Event
April, 2024