Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Location	Portland, OR, United States
Introduction	John Sibley Williams is the author of six chapbooks, winner of the HEART Poetry Award, and finalist for the Pushcart and Rumi Poetry Prizes. He has served as Acquisitions Manager of Ooligan Press and Publicist for Three Muses Press and holds an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Book Publishing. Some of his over 200 previous or upcoming publications include: Bryant Literary Review, The Chaffin Journal,The Evansville Review, RHINO, Rosebud, Ellipsis, Flint Hills Review, and Poetry Quarterly.
Interests	poetry, literature, travel/adventure/cultural exploration, my lovely cats, photography, hiking, vegetarian cooking, yoga, chess, old films, politics
Favorite movies	Wings of Desire, A Clockwork Orange, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, Amelie, Far Away So Close, The Proposition, Jaws, No Country For Old Men, The Motorcycle Diaries, Chinatown, LA Confidential, Rebel Without a Cause, The Pianist, The Apartment, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Holiday, Brazil, Vertigo, Fargo, The Shining, Gran Torino, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Some Like It Hot, Psycho, Apocalypse Now, The Sting, Bringing Up Baby, Trainspotting, High Fidelity, In Cold Blood, The Philadelphia Story, There Will Be Blood, Best in Show, Life is Beautiful, Blade Runner, Benny and June, Blue Velvet, Memento, Sunset Boulevard, Being John Malkovich, City of Lost Children, Donnie Darko, Bottle Rocket, Paradise Now, Syriana, Seven Samurai, Pulp Fiction, Harold and Maude, Wait Until Dark, East of Eden, Das Boot, North by Northwest, The French Connection, Reservoir Dogs, This is Spinal Tap, The Days of Wine and Roses, Metropolis, The Godfather, The Hustler, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells, Strangers on a Train, everything Monty Python and film noir... Some fav directors: Stanley Kubrick, Wim Wenders, Wes Anderson, the Cohen Brothers, Terry Gilliam, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch, Alfred Hitchcock, Werner Herzog, Billy Wilder, Akira Kurowsawa, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, Christopher Guest...
Favorite music	New Order, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, The Arcade Fire, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Belle and Sebastian, David Bowie, Echo and the Bunnymen, Tom Waits, Joy Division, M. Ward, Bright Eyes, Bob Marley, The Psychedelic Furs, The Velvet Underground, The Clash, Magazine, Pulp, The Raveonettes, The Mountain Goats, Interpol, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Buzzcocks, The Smiths, Morrissey, Johnny Cash, James Brown, The Kinks, The Jam, Nico, Arab Strap, Otis Redding, Figurine, The Who, Portishead, Stone Roses, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Cure, Section 25, Iggy Pop, The Only Ones, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Stereo Total, Antony and the Johnsons, 16 Horsepower, Woven Hand, TV on the Radio, Louis Armstrong, The Sugarcubes, Social Distortion, Billie Hoilday, The Pet Shop Boys, Blur, Television, Keane, Louis Prima, Ella Fitzgerald, The Paragons, Gorillaz, Miles Davis, The Pixies, Buddy Holly, Camera Obscura, Thelonious Monk, Happy Mondays, Stereolab, The Birthday Party, The Boys Next Door, Chris Isaak, The Sex Pistols, Sam Cooke, The Chameleons, Depeche Mode, Desmond Dekker, Wilsom Pickett, Electronic, The Misfits, Radiohead, Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Talking Heads, T. Rex, The Specials, Jimmy Cliff, The Ramones, Lou Reed, The Supremes, British Sea Power, The Kingsmen, Nick Drake, Elvis Costello, Roy Orbison, Cat Stevens...and on and on...
Favorite books	Franz Kafka, Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Halldor Laxness, Octavio Paz, Ingeborg Bachmann, Derek Walcott, Georg Trakl, Gottfried Benn, Zbigniew Herbert, Adam Zagajewski, Robert Bly, W.S. Merwin, Anton Chekhov, Adonis, Federico Garcia Lorca, Joseph Brodsky, Yehuda Amichai, Nazim Hikmet, Milan Kundera, Jack Kerouac, Rohinton Mistry, Edward Abbey, Albert Camus, Thomas Transtromer, Czeslaw Milosz, Gogol, Rimbaud, Mahoud Darwish, Wallace Stevens, Donald Justice, Cormac McCarthy, Bertolt Brecht, Rilke, Ted Hughes, Hunter S. Thompson, Miltos Sachtouris, Fernando Pessoa, Paul Celan, Wallace Stegner, Yves Bonnefoy, Paul Auster, Odysseus Elytis, Byron Vazakas, Raymond Carver, Hart Crane, David Shapiro, Taha Muhammad Ali, Haruki Murakami, Jay Wright, Charles Bukowski, Paul Eluard, Margaret Atwood, William Carlos Williams, Pushkin, Mark Strand, Sartre, Poe, Langston Hughes, John Cheever, Thomas Bernhard, Franz Wright, Seamus Heaney, Louise Gluck, Frank O'Hara, Wilfred Owen, Julio Cortazar, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Flannery O'Connor, Nick Hornsby, Khaled Hosseini, John Fante, Sylvia Plath, Emerson, Lewis Carroll, Gregory Corso, Emily Dickinson, the classical haikuists.