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Ernest Williamson III, Ph.D.

CEO of WZTS/ Asst. Director of Education Projects
Williamson Zoom Tutoring Services/Tennessee State University
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Nashville
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Dr. Ernest Williamson, III has published creative work in over 600 journals. He has published poetry in over 200 journals, including The Oklahoma Review, The Roanoke Review, The Prague Daily Monitor, Ginosko Literary Journal, The Cannon's Mouth (UK), Ygdrasil: A Journal Of The Poetic Arts, Pamplemousse (formerly known as the Gihon River Review), Poetry Life and Times (UK), Aleola Journal of Poetry and Art, Caper Journal, Abramelin: A Journal of Fine Poetry, The Montucky Review. Many of his creative works have been published in journals representing over 80 colleges and universities around the world. Some of his visual artwork has appeared in journals such as New England Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, The William & Mary Review, The Wisconsin Review, The Tulane Review, The Manhattanville Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Madison Review, and Fourteen Hills. Dr. Williamson's poetry has been nominated three times for the Best of the Net Anthology. In 2012, famed theatre director and multiple Moliere award winner, Irina Brook, praised Dr. Williamson's creative work and called him "an amazing Renaissance man". In 2012, Williamson was admitted to Drew University’s Doctor of Letters program in literary studies but did not enroll. In 2013, he was offered a Professorship. For 5 years, Dr. Williamson was an Assistant Professor of English & Department Coordinator at Allen University. Currently, he is Assistant Director of Education Projects at Tennessee State University. Born in Illinois and raised in Tennessee, Williamson is the son of a retired elementary school principal and a BMI Music Award-winning musician. Identified early as a strong student, he was moved into a experimental public gifted education program called Creative Learning In a Unique Environment, (CLUE). The oldest of three, Williamson began writing poetry at the age of 13. His brother is a grammy nominated musician and his sister is a certified educator. Dr. Williamson has taught at the college level for over thirteen years with six different colleges. He holds a B.A. in English (creative writing concentration) and an M.A. in English Literature, both from the University of Memphis. Williamson also earned a Ph.D in Higher Education Leadership, Management, & Policy from Seton Hall University, and a leadership certificate from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dr. Williamson is an active member of the Academy of American Poets, the Authors Guild, the Authors Alliance, the American Humanist Association, the Association of Tertiary Education Management, the American Educational Research Association, the National Association of Independent Artists.

Current position (3)

CEO of WZTS/ Asst. Director of Education Projects

Williamson Zoom Tutoring Services/Tennessee State University

Former Assistant Professor of English

Allen University (5 years)

CEO & Founder of WZTS

Williamson Zoom Tutoring Services

Degrees (4)
Leadership Certificate: Equity in Education/Closing Achievement Gaps
Harvard School of Education
2015
PhD in Higher Education Leadership
Seton Hall University
2004 to 2011
M.A. in English Literature
University of Memphis
2003 to 2004
B.A in English (creative writing concentration)
University of Memphis
1996 to 2002

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Presentations (1)
Langston Hughes Poetry House Opening: 2015 (Allen University: Columbia, South Carolina)

The Langston Hughes Poetry Center and Library at Allen University in Columbia, SC, is a project ten years in the making, developed by Charlene Spearen, Chairperson of the Humanities Department at Allen, and Kwame Dawes, currently the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner. The center was also established to commemorate Hughes' visitation and poetry reading at the college. It features art and books of poetry by Hughes and African American poets.
On Saturday, January 31, 2015, the center was opened to the community with several poetry workshops, headlined by Kwame and Nikki Finney,
Next. Ernest Williamson III, Assistant Professor of English at Allen, gave a workshop on writing ekphrastic poetry. Ekphrasis is poetry based on art. As both an artist and a poet with over 550 publications, Ernest shared his insight on using paintings as inspiration for poems.
www.ernestwilliamsoniii.com

https://soundcloud.com/user-331948827/sets/select-poetry-readings

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