About this episode
Harold Whit Williams is a poet and longtime guitarist for the indie rock band Cotton Mather. He's the recipient of the 2020 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, the 2014 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize, as well as multiple Pushcart nominations. Williams is currently cataloging the KUT Radio Collection for the University of Texas Libraries, all the while writing, recording, and performing his solo music under the moniker Daily Worker.
Links:
Read “Early Recordings: Volume 1;” “Caught by the Indian Summer Train;” and “Participation Trophy”
Daily Worker at Radio Gurl Records
"Holding out for Nothing" music video by Daily Worker
"Premonitions at a Funeral" and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" at JuxtaProse
Four poems at The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
"Blues Dreams," winner of The Mississippi Review Poetry Prize
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