Patricia Williams

Patricia Williams, originally from Illinois, taught Design History for 27 years at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She did not begin writing poetry until early in 2013, after retiring from teaching. "I feel that art, design, music and creative writing are natural partners – all artistically examine life and living. Poetry is a search for the universal in the personal. Some poems can be taken at face value, some have layers. Each of us reads a poem through our own life filter and each takes away a different understanding or experience."

Williams' poems have been published in a variety of print and online journals and anthologies. Her work has been chosen for several art and poetry collaborations, most recently, “Women Speak”, at Chapel Hill, NC. Her chapbook, “The Port Side of Shadows”, reflects traveling not only in the physical sense, but in those uncharted places of the spirit and the imagination. Williams is also the author of “Midwest Medley: Places & People, Wild Things & Weather”, designated as Outstanding Poetry Book for 2019 by the Literary Awards Committee of the Wisconsin Library Association. This collection of sixty poems draws on the landscape and people of the Midwest for inspiration. She is a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband.