Forgotten Ground Regained
Donald Mace Williams
Website donaldtwilliams.com, thefivepilgrims.com
Donald Mace Williams is a retired writing coach and columnist at the Wichita Eagle. He has written several alliterative riddles in the Old English style, which are all published in Issue 2: His publications include Beowulf: For Fireside and Schoolroom, a translation of Beowulf into modern English iambic verse, two collections of poems (The Nectar Dancer and Wolfe and Other Poems, featuring a retelling of Beowulf set in 19th-Century Texas), two novels (Black Tuesday's Child and The Sparrow and the Hall: Love and Betrayal in Anglo-Saxon England), nonfiction (Italian POWs and a Texas Church: The Murals of St. Mary's) and a memoir (Being Ninety), published in Wolfe and Being Ninety: Old West Monsters and A Texas Poet's Life.
- Ceaseless Laborer
- Change of Pace
- Changeable Presence, originally published in Barrow Street, Winter 2004
- Continuous Gestation, originally published in Measure IV, 1, 2009
- Defier of Gravity, originally published online by Pulsebeat, January, 2024
- Modern Dancers, originally published in JASAT (the Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas)
- Skyline Herds, originally published in Nov. 2008 by JASAT; also in the San Antonio Express-News, Sept. 26, 2014
- Sweet and Sour, originally published online by Better than Starbucks
- The Domestication
- Unmoved
- Youth and Age