Phillip B. Williams Books in Order

This poetry chapbook centers Black men’s lives, bodies, art and love for one another. Its poems affirm intimacy and creative expression, exploring connection through a sustained attention to the people whose experiences they seek to honor.

Phillip B. Williams explores desire, violence, racism, and homophobia through poems that move between intimate experience and public tragedy. Shifting voices and forms examine how people can inflict harm while remaining vulnerable to it themselves.

In the nineteenth century, a powerful conjurer rescues enslaved people and creates a magically hidden town for them. As her protection falters and outsiders arrive, the community must confront the complicated relationship between safety and freedom.