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, Denver Syntax, Versus Literary Journal, New Works Review, Penumbra Literary and Art Journal, Subliminal Interiors, Critiphoria: A Journal of Poetry and Criticism, Barrier Islands Review, The Whistling Fire, East Coast Literary Review, The Aroostook Review, Grasslimb Journal of Art and Literature, Rose & Thorn Journal, Adagio Verse Quarterly, The Literary Yard, G Twenty Two Literary Journal, The Literary Nest, Swamp Lily Review, Rollick Magazine, The Stray Branch: A Literary Publication of Poetry, Fiction, Art, and Photography, The Cherry Blossom Review, Canopic Jar, Plum Ruby Review, The Altar Collective, Reverie: Midwest African American Literature, Semaphore Magazine, The Copperfield Review, The Maynard (Canada), Scythe Literary Journal, Journal of Truth and Consequence, Mythium Journal: A Journal Dedicated to Good Literature, Lines and Stars: A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose, The Ekphrastic Review, Decanto (UK), Westview: A Journal of Western Oklahoma, I-70 Review, The American Aesthetic: A Journal of English Language Poetry, Tertulia Magazine, GTK Creative Journal, Steel Toe Review: A Journal of Southern Arts & Letters, The Penwood Review, The Indian Review, The Tower Journal, The Bombay Review, The Bangalore Review, Ramshackle Review, The Monongahela Review, The Houston Literary Review, Ray's Road Review, Prairie Wolf Press Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, El Portal (ENMU), The Critical Pass Review, Tryst, Yellow Chair Review, East Jasmine Review, Piedmont Journal of Poetry and Fiction, Yellow Medicine Review, and The Ballard Street Poetry Journal. 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, Fourteen Hills, Switchback Journal (USF), West Trade Review, The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review (JHU), Owen Wister Review (UWYO), East Iowa Review, Inscape Journal (BYU), The Portland Review, Packingtown Review, Haverthorn (UK), Tule Review, The Columbia Review, The Penn Review, Spectrum (UCSB), Redivider: A Literary Journal of Emerson College, The Journal (Ohio State University), Black Market Review (UK), Dislocate (UMN), The Emerson Review, Two Cities Review, Kudzu Review, Rathalla Review, Rio Grande Review, Red Savina Review, The Rappahannock Review, Beechwood Review, New Plains Review, Pennsylvania English, New Delta Review (LSU), Willard & Maple, Cura: A Literary Magazine of Art and Action (Fordham University), The Brooklyn Review, and Kaltblut Magazine (Germany). Williamson has published articles on comparative education in the academic journal Academic Exchange Extra (University of Northern Colorado), and his research has been cited in journals such as The Urban Review and The Public Purpose (American 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 an 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 and universities including Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey City University, and Nyack College. Williamson, a graduate of CBHS, is also a self-taught pianist and classical composer. His piano composition, Struggle for Peace (Parts I-III), was published in Georgia College's Literary Journal, The Peacock's Feet in 2014. Williamson has composed over 160 classical compositions for piano. Many of his creative works have been published in journals representing over 80 colleges and universities around the world. 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". Williamson was admitted to Drew University’s Doctor of Letters program in literary studies in 2012 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. For 4 and 1/2 years he was Assistant Director of Education Projects at Tennessee State University. Currently, Dr. Williamson is an Independent Researcher, Leadership Consultant for Currnt, Private Tutor and Dissertation Editor. 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 American Humanist Association, AAUP, ASCAP, Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education, Pi Lambda Theta Honor Society, the Golden Key International Honour Society, the National Association of Independent Artists, IHIQS and SENG.
Ernest is diligently working (some have been completed) on the following projects:
(Books)
1.The Face of God That We See but Do Not Understand: How the Genius of AI Could Obliterate Our Conceptual Frameworks of Human Perception
2.This Race is Global: How Unjust Social Policies Hinder American Space Exploration
3.What Traditionalism Gets Right: How Artificial Intelligence Makes Higher Education Artificial
4.America's Fascination with Race & Racism
5.Loveless Love Letters: Analyzing Blues Literature in a World Without R&B
6.Allegories of American Decadence
7.Words & Images (Volumes I-V), (Poetry)
8.What Coronavirus Was and Was Not: Understanding the Dangers of Fallacy and Propaganda
9.Preservation, Restoration, and Mass Codification: What America Means, Deserves, and Reveals
10.There Are No Schools and There Is No Education: America's Delusional Bastion of Academic Prominence
11.Bombs Bursting in Air: How and Why Radical Liberalism Welcomes Nuclear War
12.Mantras of Desperation: Defying Democracy and Redefining Liberalism in 21st Century America
13.What Did the "Little Einsteins" Do to You? Why Giftedness Is Not a Bad Word and How Educational Egalitarianism Threatens Us All
14. Lucas, Spielberg, and Cameron: Three Indelible Examples of Imagination's Triump over Fearful Learning
15. Let's Study Anyway: How Daily Test Prep Enriches Our Lives
16. Dear Employer: You Were Not Respected Until Today! Future Consequences of Privacy Invasions by Elite Actors & Elite Wannabes
17. What Google Knows and Doesn't Know About What We Mortals Know About Google
18. No, Money Doesn't Make You Dangerous, Wisdom Does! Why and How Impactful Intelligence Stymies the Dastardly Deeds of the Left
19. Blaspheming the Blood of the Martyrs: Why Trump Was the Wrong Mouthpiece For American Democracy
20. What Do You Mean-Vote? American Nirvana: Recounting the Demises of both the Republican and Democratic Parties
21. The Gospels According to You: What the Religious Right and the Radical Left Know But Won't Admit
22. Empty Minds and Empty Times: The Future Belongs to China and Rightfully So
23. The Benefits of Aimless Thoughts: Exercising Arbitrary Beauties of Irrational Cogitations
24. No Need for Posion Ivy: How the "University of the Internet" Will Destroy Barriers to Knowledge and Application
25. Laughing at American Assets: America Needs a Bib, Not a President
26. Why the Censorship Agenda Will Fail: The US Constitution Is Not Amused and Liberals Know It
27. Dear CEO, Hold the Champagne: Why the American Epidemic of Shoddy Customer Service Should Keep You Sober and Sobbing
28. When Adults Act Like Children: Why the Demise of Linkedin is a Good Thing
29. The Gift of Genetic Explanation: How Understanding Our Genes Can Bring Peace, Love, and Understanding
30. Consequences of the Dirisive Tongue: How To Resurrect the Business of Religion
31. Hypocrisy of the so called "Freedom Fighters": The New War on Black and Latino Conservatives
32. The New Liberalism and Dictatorships of Desires: Consequences of Breaking Color-Coated Behaviors and Expectations
33. Exposing Biden's Lethal Agenda: Why Destroying America May Not Work
34. Country, A Word America Cannot Define: Examining the Consequences of Citizen-Shaming
35. Why Is Stevie Wonder Moving to Ghana? What We Need to Understand about Exceptional Creativity
36. Consequences of Free Love: Why Are You Running Away From What You Voted For?
37. No Time for Follies: 5000 facts about the US Police and the US Armed Forces
38. American Cyberespionage: Medical Records and Your Career
39. Digital Justice: Why The Elite Can No Longer Frame People of Color
40. Logging Out In Peace: New Prisons For Domestic Spies
41. Good Grades, Good Scores, & Experience: We Don't Care! Why Racist Employers Can't Keep It Together
42. Reverse Racism & Reverse Colorism Won't Work Either: Why Merit Alone Trumps Ideology
43. Harbinger For Black Republicans: Smartness Will Not Save You & Self-Hatred Is Not Conservative
(Articles)
1.The Miller Analogies Test, In Defense of Cultural Literacy: Who Knows What and Why It Matters (forthcoming)
2.Rethinking Academic Disidentification: Reframing Connections between Perception and Achievement (forthcoming)
3.The Art of Tacit Connotations: What Emily Dickinson Says and Doesn't Say (forthcoming)
4.Poetry is About Your Future: Derek Walcott's Prophetic Aesthetic (forthcoming)
5.Why Abstract Art Matters: The Impact of Persistent Artistic Engagement on Specific Markers of General Intelligence (forthcoming)
6. Genocide of the Forbidden Students: What Highly Gifted African American Students Intuit but Do Not Understand
7. Superman Must Leave: How America Drowned Screaming at Its Shadows (Forthcoming)
8. Mission-Bonds: Accentuating Positive Teacher-Student Relationships (Published: Higher Education Digest-2023)
9. Johnny: The New PhD Student/Certificate Reject?: Insanities of Modern-Day Graduate Admissions (Forthcoming)
(Classical Piano Albums)
The Culmination,
Fall of Paris,
With Flowers, With Love.
Please contact Dr. Williamson for anticipated release dates of these projects.
