Birth Name:

Charles Kenneth Williams

Male

Birth Date:

Wed, Nov 04, 1936

Time of Birth:

12:21 AM

Place of Birth:

Newark, New Jersey, United States

Age:

87

Zodiac Sign:

Scorpio

Astrology Data:

Sun

11°

Sco

37'

Moon

19°

Can

16'

Asc

27°

Leo

55'

MC

21°

Tau

47'

About C. K. Williams

Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams (November 4, 1936 – September 20, 2015) was an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won nearly every major poetry award. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repair (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the National Book Award, 2003 and in 2005 Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. The 2012 film Tar related aspects of Williams' life using his poetry.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Poetry Foundation (U.S) biography accessed 2010-02-10

• Poetry Archive (U.K) biography and audio poetry recordings accessed 2010-02-10

• Encyclopædia Britannica profile

• A Poet Watches Himself as He Watches the World New York Times article, December 25, 2006 accessed 2010-02-27

• Poet Marshals His Moral Passion Against the War New York Times article January 13, 2005 accessed 2010-02-27

• C. K. Williams at TED "Poetry of youth and age" (TED2001) accessed 2010-02-27

• "Poetry of youth and age" (TED2001) accessed 2010-02-27

• Poetry.LA's video of C.K. Williams' reading at the 3rd Area Reading Series, PHARMAKA Gallery, Los Angeles, March 19, 2009

• The National Book Foundation C.K. Williams's acceptance speech for the 2003 Poetry Award for The Singing, reading his poem "The Doves." Accessed November 30, 2010

• 'Song of Himself', review of On Whitman in the Oxonian Review

• "Poets in Person: C.K. Williams" (HD Video), A family visit with C.K. Williams at his home in Hopewell, NJ, The Cortland Review – Winter 2011 Feature.

• " C.K. Williams Memorial Reading, April 11, 2016" Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Birth Chart and Planetary Positions of C. K. Williams

Astrological portrait of C. K. Williams

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for C. K. Williams: Sun 11 Scorpio, Moon 19 Cancer, Mercury 2 Scorpio, Venus 14 Sagittarius, Mars 23 Virgo, Jupiter 24 Sagittarius, Saturn 15 Pisces, Uranus 7 Taurus, Neptune 18 Virgo, Pluto 28 Cancer, Asc 27 Leo, Mc 21 Taurus, Moon Sextile Neptune, Moon Sextile Midheaven, Sun Opposition Uranus, Mercury Square Pluto, Mercury Opposition Uranus, Sun Trine Saturn, Moon Trine Saturn, Sun Semi Square Mars, Sun Semi Square Jupiter, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Saturn, Mercury Semi Square Neptune, Venus Square Saturn, Venus Square Neptune, Venus Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Mars Square Jupiter, Mars Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Mars Conjunct Neptune, Mars Trine Midheaven, Jupiter Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Jupiter Trine Ascendant, Jupiter Quincunx Midheaven, Saturn Opposition Neptune, Saturn Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Neptune Trine Midheaven, Pluto Semi Sextile Ascendant

Categories related to C. K. Williams: New Jersey, 2015 deaths, 20th-century American poets, 21st-century American poets, 20th-century American male writers, 21st-century American male writers, American male poets, University of Pennsylvania alumni, November 4 births, Princeton University faculty, National Book Award winners, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Brooklyn College faculty, Writers from Newark, Poets from New Jersey, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners, Deaths from multiple myeloma, 1936 births, Columbia High School (New Jersey) alumni, People from Hopewell

Photo attribution: Catherine Mauger, Provided by Catherine Mauger, wife of C.K. Williams, for this purpose.