Tyrone Williams

San Francisco State University

Xavier University Professor Tyrone Williams presents The San Francisco State Poetry Center's 34th George Oppen Memorial Lecture. Supported by the Dorothy A. Fowler Trust. Williams' work draws on a variety of sources to challenge and investigate language, history and race. "I don't ‘revere' the English language but I use it and, on occasion, abuse it," he said in a 2011 interview with the Volta.