Roger Williams lives with his wife Robin Dorn, an artist and illustrator, about an hour north of San Francisco where he taught at San Francisco State University until his retirement in 1987. A long time before, he studied poetry with Ted Roethke and Louise Bogan and, for some forty years, set poems to music—Wilde, Patchen, Creely, Merwin and many others. Now he writes these poems, but he does not set them to music. His poetry has appeared in: 6×6, Experiential-Experimental Literature, Counterexample Poetics, Otoliths, Ygdrasil, Eskimop, and Mu mu magazine.