William Heyen will be at the College at Brockport (Brockport, NY) for the Writers Forum on Wednesday, November 28th, at 8:00 pm in Cooper Hall His two Mayapple books are “The Angel Voices” and the recent “Straight’s Suite for Craig Cotter and Frank O’Hara“. Heyen’s has a long association with Brockport, having taught there for…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 86pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-11-1 The 52 lyrics that make up William Heyen’s newest collection of poetry are at once a nod to the progenitor of American poetry of sexuality and the body, Walt Whitman, and a communication addressed to the late Frank O’Hara, famed member of the New…
Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-881 The Angel Voices is a sort of “luminous dream,” sometimes so real you can feel the heat. In this elegant and haunting work, William Heyen pours forth prophetic words of an almost divine nature. The poems search through images of grace and beauty as…