William F. Devault – National Beat Poetry Festival 2020 – Watch Here

William F. DeVault is an American-born poet and author, best identified for his prolific writing of romantic verse in various forms and to a sequence of totem muses, women he has been involved with whom he identifies by a symbology, often to the exclusion of any other public identification. In 1996 was declared The Romantic Poet of the Internet by Yahoo. His poetry and memes have been cited by such disparate sources as the Suicide Girls and HGTV host Michelle Beschen, and his video for the poem Darfur (Jesus Wept) received worldwide airplay. Some of his credits include Editor and publisher of the poetry literary journal amomancies Author of several poetry volumes, including Love Gods of a Forgotten Religion The Compleat Panther Cycles from an unexpected quarter Grace: Poetry of affection and seduction Blaspheme The Morgantown Suite Poems Cleave Records CDs of his works, sometimes with musical accompaniment, including: The Naked Reads tbd The Last Romantic Verb Provides lyrics and vocals for Dutch hardcore techno recording artist Ophidian, including: Pegasus The Violence of Indifference Nightfall Angel Podcasts the From Out of the City poetry podcast atpodcasts.com Hosted Romantic and Erotic Poetry Group and Passion Craft Workshop chats on AOL Was named to the Edinburgh International Internet Festival of the Arts in 2002 Active involvement in the 2015 National Beat Poetry Festival as both a performer and the coordinator for West Virginia He is the father of three grown children, and has worked as a proposal consultant to defense contractors, a drugs and gangs lecturer and counselor in schools, a computer programmer. Although born in South Carolina and raised around the country, he considers Venice Beach his home. He was named one of 50 outstanding creative artists to have attended public school in West Virginia by the Appalachian Education Initiative.