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About William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

William Eric Waters is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, essayist, educator, criminal-justice scholar, and nonprofit executive. Writing as William E. Waters, he is the author of the epic poem Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass and three poetry collections: Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, The Black Feminine Mystique, and The Black Blood of Poetry. Under the pen name Easy Waters, he is the author of the novel Streets of Rage and the short-story collection Conundrums: Stories of Law & Justice. His work explores Black history, race, law, punishment, institutional power, accountability, redemption, and resilience.

October 1, 2010 — Celebrating Fifty Years of Life

Posted on January 10, 2011 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

I saw the best minds of my generation drop out of school and get their education on the streets, in the schools of hard knocks: in group homes, reform schools, jails, reformatories and prisons.  They dropped out of schools that … Continue reading →

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The Novel Wants to be Born

Posted on January 10, 2011 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

The late great Bill Webber, President Emeritus of New York Theological Seminary, once told me that the closest a man comes to experiencing giving birth is writing a book.  Therefore, I wasn’t surprised that it took me nine months to … Continue reading →

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Excerpt from The Summer of Capri

Posted on January 5, 2011 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

No matter where we have been, no matter who we have become, no matter where we live now, there’s the place where we are from, where our roots are planted.  My roots are in Brooklyn.  I grew up in Brooklyn.  … Continue reading →

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Working on the P.I. Novel — The Summer of Capri

Posted on January 3, 2011 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

I believe I can fly! Work on the novel is going well.  Just wrote a scene, a flashback.  The main character, Alexander Jones, a P.I., is thinking about his brother, killed in a gang war in the mid-’70s.

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From EZ Waters

Posted on December 30, 2010 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

I am working on a novel that has been brewing in my mind for nearly 10 years.  I’m finally getting it out of my head and onto paper.  I am never more alive than when I am writing.  Writing is … Continue reading →

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