Category Archives: Books & Writing Projects

Posts about William Eric Waters’s books, manuscripts, publication projects, and ongoing writing projects.

From my book, “Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats”: “Stolen Lives”

Posted on November 26, 2014 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

“Stolen Lives” They march on City Hall, Trailing a long banner, A fragile memorial, Dedicated to mostly young minorities, The fatal victims of police brutality, Of New York’s Finest. As they march they chant: “Police brutality by the hour!” “What … Continue reading →

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Preface to my book, “Black Shadows and through the White Looking Glass”

Posted on February 3, 2014 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Preamble  From slavery to freedom. From pre-colonialism to post-modernism. From revolution to reactionism. From the War for Independence             to the Civil War From the slave enlistment bill             to Selective Service. From Articles of Confederation             to the Confederacy. … Continue reading →

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“The Gift of Story and Song” — From my book, “Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass

Posted on October 15, 2013 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

From Griots to the Last Poets From Phillis Wheatley             to Gwendolyn Brooks. From highly imitative                     to Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry. From Various Subjects, Religious and Moral             to Annie Allen. From Zora Neale Hurston             to Toni Morrison. From … Continue reading →

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From my book, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass — one of my favorite passages

Posted on May 17, 2013 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

II On the auction blocks, male and female and even child, bronze bodies oiled and buffed, prepared to be sold like used furniture. Bare black breasts weighed with rough white hands, squeezed like fruit. Teeth exposed, dirty white fingers rubbed … Continue reading →

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About the book — Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats

Posted on March 9, 2013 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats is a collection of poetry about law enforcement excesses. Most of the poems were inspired by actual cases from around the country. The author did not set out to compile a collection of these … Continue reading →

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Inspiration — “Writing Every Day”

Posted on January 12, 2011 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Just finished re-reading an essay entitled “Writing Every Day,” by Walter Mosley, in the March/April 2007 issue of Poets & Writers. Writing is a discipline.  It is far too easy, when writing is not one’s primary source of income, 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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