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  Sonny Boy Williamson II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rice Miller was born on the Sara Jones Plantation near Glendora, Mississippi in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi.
Miller claimed to have been born on December 5, 1899, but at least one researcher, David Evans, claims to have found census record evidence that he was born around 1912.
Rice Miller was, however, notable as one of the finest and most atypical of blues songwriters and his laconic harmonica style and sly vocals mark him as a true artist.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonny_Boy_Williamson_II   (804 words)

  
 Lucinda Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Williams was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the daughter of poet and literature professor Miller Williams.
Williams also gained a reputation as a perfectionist and slow worker when it came to recording; six years would pass before her next album release, though she appeared as a guest on other artists' albums and contributed to several tribute compilations during this period.
Williams toured with influence Bob Dylan, as well as on her own in support of the album.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucinda_Williams   (650 words)

  
 WashingtonPost.com: Inauguration '97
Williams was born in Hoxie, Ark., a little railroad town in the northeast corner of the state.
Williams' daughter, Lucinda Williams, is perhaps known to a larger audience.
Williams and his second wife, Jordan, rang doorbells and passed out literature in 1975 for Clinton, who was then a young instructor at the University of Arkansas running, unsuccessfully, for Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/inaug/mon/williams.htm   (629 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Although Americans claim that Williams shares honours with Edwin Drake of Pennsylvania for having, in 1859, drilled one of the two first deep-rock oil wells, today’s research is establishing for posterity that James Miller Williams is, in fact, the father of North America’s petroleum industry.
James Williams started his own interest in rock oil (which could be seen floating on the greasy surface of many a woodland pool in parts of southwestern Ontario) only in the mid- 1850s after he was already well established as the owner of a carriage works in Hamilton.
Williams himself moved his refinery to Hamilton in 1860 where he continued to grow not only with the industry he had fathered but also with his coach and carriage works that now built for town street-railways as well.
collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume6/102-103.htm   (662 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Inaugural Poet Miller Williams -- January 16, 1997
MILLER WILLIAMS: In August of ‘61, I was a fellow at the Breadloaf Writers Conference.
MILLER WILLIAMS: Well, I put myself in a spiritual and physical place where I've learned from experience the synapses are likely to fire and the juices are likely to flow, and simply begin to write.
MILLER WILLIAMS: Let me say that this has been in a number of anthologies and textbooks.One of the textbooks in which it appears has an appended note saying the poet wrote this at the crib of his granddaughter on the day of her birth.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june97/williams_1-16.html   (1537 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Bears part ways with Miller, Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The 32-year-old Miller, a nine-year veteran, spent five seasons with the Bears and was 15-11 as a starter.
Miller was signed for the final four games of the 1998 season and holds two of the Bears top eight passing performances, including a 422-yard effort against the Vikings in 1999.
Williams, 34, was signed as an undrafted defensive lineman out of Cheney State (Pa.) in 1991.
www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/bears/2003-02-26-miller_x.htm   (406 words)

  
 University of Delaware: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS COLLECTION
Poet and physician William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, on September 17, 1883.
Williams interned at French Hospital and the Nursery and Child's Hospital in New York from 1906 to 1909.
In addition to the Williams letters, there are two essays written by Williams describing his reactions to Romano's art and one letter from Romano in which he expresses his own attitude toward his work.
www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/willi_wc.htm   (1693 words)

  
 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cadillac Williams, Heath Miller, Logan Mankins, National Football League - CBS SportsLine.com
Williams, who rushed for 1,178 yards and six touchdowns, drew 47 votes Wednesday from a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters who cover the NFL.
Williams moved into the starting lineup immediately and became the first player in league history to begin his career with three consecutive 100-yard games, including a season-high 158 against Green Bay.
Williams, who endeared himself to teammates with a humble attitude, refused to use the injury as an excuse for a dropoff in production during a stretch in which he was held to 29 yards or less four times.
cbs.sportsline.com /nfl/story/9143656   (621 words)

  
 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville: D. D. Todd, 1930 - . Miller Williams Collection, 1950-1995.
Miller Williams was born on April 8, 1930 in Hoxie, Arkansas.
Williams began his graduate studies in zoology at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and completed his M.S. degree at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Williams translated the poetry of Nicanor Parra and Giuseppe Belli and has edited several volumes of poetry, including The Achievement of John Ciardi (1968) and (with John Corrington) Southern Writing in the Sixties (1966).
libinfo.uark.edu /specialcollections/findingaids/todd.html   (697 words)

  
 Memorizing Miller Williams
Were it not for his spotlight at the inauguration, Williams might best be known as the father of Grammy-award winning country singer and songwriter Lucinda Williams.
The 60-something Williams is director of the University of Arkansas Press, a professor of English and foreign languages at the university, and the author of 26 books, including a history of American railroads and several books of poetry.
Williams notes that the president was impressed with the poem Williams wrote eulogizing the late Sen. William Fulbright.
www.toad.net /~andrews/inaug.html   (899 words)

  
 ArtandCulture Artist: Tennessee Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Williams won his first (and well-deserved) Pulitzer Prize with his next production, “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1947), which was directed on both stage and screen by Elia Kazan.
Williams’ well-publicized bouts with alcoholism and prescription drug addiction shadowed his prolific output; later plays are often considered lesser, but they also represent his experiments with new forms and genres.
Williams' artistic world dissected the polarities of dark and light, sensual and cerebral, and pious and profane; his dramas play as moral fables that amuse, move, and disturb his audiences.
www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=135   (386 words)

  
 Walton Arts Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Williams’ music has been said to carry the discipline of someone who has learned the rules of poetry and literature, which is logical in that she was born into a world of writing.
And, while Miller Williams is not a songwriter in the literal sense, the award-winning poet--whose work is much like his daughter’s--leans toward spare but deeply emotional and down-to-earth images.
The poem Williams wrote for President Clinton’s second inauguration is reflective of his disciplined structure…an art form honed through decades of international teaching, culminating in 20 years as a professor at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
www.waltonartscenter.org /event.php?eid=131   (262 words)

  
 NFL.com - Chicago Bears Team News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Miller finished the 2002 season on Injured Reserve, but was on pace to establish career-highs in several passing categories as the Bears starter last year before a series of injuries limited him to just eight starts.
Highlighting his tenure with the team was Miller's direction of the 2001 playoff drive in which he led the Bears to an 11-2 regular season mark as a starter while posting career-highs in pass attempts (395), completions (228), yards (2,299) and touchdowns (13).
Miller concludes his Bears career having completed 565 of 965 passes for 5,867 yards, 34 touchdowns, 26 interceptions and the third-highest quarterback rating in team history (75.2).
www.nfl.com /teams/story/CHI/6213742   (561 words)

  
 Arthur Miller
Miller is best known for the play DEATH OF A SALESMAN (1949), or on the other hand, for his marriage to the actress Marilyn Monroe.
With Tennessee Williams, Miller was one of the best-known American playwrights after WW II.
Miller wrote The Crucible in the atmosphere in which the author saw "accepted the notion that conscience was no longer a private matter but one of state administration." In the play he expressed his faith in the ability of an individual to resist conformist pressures.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /amiller.htm   (2072 words)

  
 Event Preview: Williams family values
Poet Miller Williams provided his daughter with everything she would need to grow up to be one of the finest singer-songwriters of her generation.
Lucinda Williams was instilled with an appreciation for poetry and language, indoctrinated with music from Hank Williams to John Coltrane and introduced to a stream of legendary writers who passed through their household.
The Miller Williams poem getting that musical boost is called "For Lucinda, Robert and Karyn," a piece that addresses the formative years of his three children.
www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20010330lucinda3.asp   (1962 words)

  
 The Academy of American Poets - Miller & Lucinda Williams: All in the Family
Miller Williams is perhaps most famous, beyond poetry circles, for delivering the poem at President Clinton's second inauguration.
Lucinda Williams traces her defining musical moment back to a night when she was twelve, when one of her father’s students dropped by and put on Bob Dylan’s newest album, Highway 61 Revisited.
During her early adulthood, Williams was steeped in a world of creative expression between her mother, a concert pianist, and her father's literary crowd.
www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5824   (1049 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Some Jazz a While: Collected Poems: Books: Miller Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Williams treats the mundane interchanges, the lingering uncertainties, the missed opportunities, and the familiar sense of loss that mark daily life with the surgeon's deft touch.
Miller Williams has the distinction of being one of four poets to write a poem for a presidential inauguration (including Robert Frost, James Dickey, and Maya Angelou).
Williams is one of the best loved poets of his generation, and for good reason.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0252067746?v=glance   (1481 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It's well written and Williams chooses great example poems, and he divides the book seven sections, three appendices, and a glossary, which makes the book very accessible for the reader.
It must be frustrating for an author such as Williams to have written a very good and useful book, only to have another author (Lewis Turco) become the standard reference.
What Williams provides that Turco does not is more information on the current use of the form.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0807113301   (403 words)

  
 sociable media // articles by Cliff Atkinson
It also means a shift away from presenters expressing their individual style of communicating, to adapting individual presentations to the audience's style of decision-making.
Miller says his own team relies on getting good coaching beforehand from others who are familiar with the decision-making style of the executive.
Miller's tailored presentation approach obviously takes more time and money than the standard template approach, and the decision to invest resources into presentation development depends on the value of the business at stake.
www.sociablemedia.com /articles_aboutyou.htm   (819 words)

  
 Lucinda, Miller Williams share more than blood - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
But the daily adventures of the Williams family were different and unique, even as Miller says he doesn't have anything else with which to compare it.
Williams elevates his work via the use of everyday language, engaging readers by inviting them to be part of the process.
Williams says they used not poetic language, but the language of everyday speech.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_37246.html   (1436 words)

  
 AllSports' NFL News - Bears release QB Miller, OT Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Miller led the Bears to an 11-2 record as a starter in 2001, setting career highs in passes (395), completions (228), yards (2,299) and touchdowns (13).
Williams has spent his entire 12-year career with the Bears, starting the past nine seasons at right tackle after being signed as an undrafted defensive lineman in 1991.
Williams, who made the transition to offense midway through the 1992 season, was elected to the Pro Bowl following the 1991 campaign, when the Bears won the NFC Central Division title with a 13-3 record.
www.allsports.com /cgi-bin/showstory.cgi?story_id=39288   (413 words)

  
 WhoWon.com ... The Internet Source for Motorsports News and Information
During the ensuing caution period, officials ruled that the yellow flag was for Williams and Fortune and Parsons and Derek Miller were returned to first and second for the restart.
While Travis Miller was declared the series champ on Saturday night and Derek Miller was lauded as the runner-up, the remainder of the final point standings await official verification and will be released as soon as that process is completed.
As Travis Miller continued to stretch his lead, Derek Miller ducked under and past Gilbert on lap 29 to gain the runner-up spot.
www.whowon.com /sResults.asp?SanctionID=1042&StoryID=178852   (2001 words)

  
 The Traveler
Miller Williams, named by Phillip Martin as the "Hank Williams of American poetry," has been a professor of English and foreign languages for more than 30 years at the UA.
Miller Williams moved his family around throughout the South and to other countries like Mexico City and Santiago, Chile.
Daughter Lucinda Williams said she feels that this traveling instilled a restlessness in her that continues to exist today.
www.thetraveleronline.com /media/paper688/news/2005/10/11/Lifestyles/A.Family.Affair-1015764.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.thetraveleronline.com   (358 words)

  
 Miller Williams: The Hank Williams of American Poetry
Miller Williams is one of the most respected poets of his generation.
Miller Williams’ poetry is both polished and down-to-earth, sophisticated yet accessible.
Miller Williams spent 32 years at the University of Arkansas, retiring in 2003 as University Professor of English and Foreign Languages.
www.jimnewsom.com /PFW05-MillerWilliams.html   (1694 words)

  
 Dr. Vincent T. Williams -- UMKC Miller Nichols Library: Special Collections Collection
As a result Williams embarked on a decade long mid-life study of musical composition with Francis X. Beubendorf at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory.
Williams died in Kansas City in 1968 after a career as a physician.
The Williams Collection includes signed letters to Williams from Robert Russell Bennett and Virgil Thomson, three printed Piano/vocal scores of musical comedies from the 1930s, and several manuscript scores.
www.umkc.edu /lib/spec-col/vincent.htm   (304 words)

  
 Miller Williams / Some Jazz a While
An American original, Miller Williams involves the reader's emotions and imagination with an effective illusion of plain talk, continually rediscovering what is vital and musical in the language we speak and imagine by.
"Miller Williams is one of those writers whose books drag me snorkeling happily along.
Miller Williams, University Professor of English and Foreign Languages at the University of Arkansas, is the author, coauthor, or translator of twenty-eight books, including twelve poetry collections.
www.press.uillinois.edu /s99/williams.html   (278 words)

  
 SI.com - Pro Football - Bears' makeover begins as Miller, Williams released - Wednesday February 26, 2003 08:26 PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Miller led the Bears to a division title and the playoffs in 2001 but last season made just eight starts because of an assortment of injuries, finishing the season on injured reserve with a sprained knee ligament.
The 32-year-old Miller, a nine-year veteran, spent five seasons with the Bears after playing with Pittsburgh, Jacksonville and Atlanta, and was 15-11 as a starter in Chicago.
At 6-foot-7, 332-pounds, Williams also blocked or deflected a team-high nine kicks during his career.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/news/2003/02/26/bears_moves_ap   (457 words)

  
 The John William Miller Fellowship Fund: Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Miller Papers are maintained by the Williams College Library in its department of Archives and Special Collections located in Stetson Hall.
The collection is organized according to a system, established by George P. Brockway, dividing Miller's writings into two general periods (prior to 1970 and 1970 and later) and then subdividing them according to the type of item—e.g., essay, essay draft, letter.
All of the writings that form the content of Miller's published works are to be found, in their unedited form, in the archives.
www.williams.edu /resources/miller/Archives.html   (338 words)

  
 Miller Williams Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Miller Williams is the author, editor, or translator of thirty books, including fourteen volumes of poetry.
A collection of essays on his work, Miller Williams and the Poetry of the Particular, edited by Michael Burns, is available from the University of Missouri Press.
He's the father of two-time grammy award-winning singer and songwriter Lucinda Williams.
www.uark.edu /campus-resources/qwrtcntr/centerstage/miller.html   (468 words)

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