William James Austin

William James Austin (born December 4, 1949) is a New York City poet, writer, musician, visual artist, and academic. Austin received his PhD on fellowship from Tulane University in New Orleans, and is currently associate professor of English and philosophy, and artistic director of the Visiting Writers Program at SUNY, Farmingdale. He is the author of five collections of poetry, essays, and "photopo", plus a book length study of T.S. Eliot and Jacques Derrida. His visual art has been exhibited in the USA, Germany, and Mexico.

William James Austin's poetry, fiction, theoretical essays, book reviews, letters and visual art have appeared or been exhibited in the Paterson Literary Review, the American Book Review, Blaze, Louisiana Literature, ''The New Laurel Review, Xavier Review, Koja, Black October, The Small Press Review, Boston Literary Review (BluR), Masthead, The World Healing Book (a 9/11 anthology from Iceland), Fell Swoop, Appearances, "A Shout in the Street" (as Allen Ginsberg's B-side), the Tulane Literary Review, The Chronicle of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, "Scrambled Eggs", Timbuktu, Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets (Greenwood Press), Spidertangle: The Book (by Miekal And), "Gallerichickenscratch", American Poetry (by Igor Satanovsky), Magazinnik (in Russian translation), Vozdukh (in Russian translation), the Contemporary Review, "xStream", Here and Now (Boston Public Radio), E·ratio, Moria, Turntable and Blue Light, the Istanbul Literary Review, Caietele Internaţionale de Poezie (International Notebook of Poetry; in Romanian translation), Origini (pub. LiterArt XXI, sponsored by the International Association of Romanian Writers and Artists, Inc.), The June 30 Manifesto (ed. John M. Bennett and Scott Helmes; Luna Bisonte Prods), Black Zinnias (sponsored by the California Institute of Arts and Letters), "The Best of Generator Press" (CD-ROM), Le Cirque: The Soundtrack (audio CD), Fieralingue (Italian journal of arts and letters), the Durban-Segnini Gallery (Miami, FL), Gallery 324 (Cleveland, OH), Tacheles (Berlin), the Fort Worth Art Center (Fort Worth, TX), and other venues.

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