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Tyrone Williams was born in Detroit Michigan where he attended Wayne State University.
The teachers he recalls: Chris Johnson, History, Michael Giordano, French, and the following English teachers--Eddie
Hirsch, Charlie Baxter (both of whom directed his dissertation), Dan Cottom, Alvin Aubert, Stephen Chennault, Jeanne Flood,
Stephen Tudor, Bob Burgoyne, Phillip Traci, Henry Golemba, Michael Scrivener, Ross Pudaloff, Arthur Marotti and Dennis Turner.
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This is a range of possibilities...
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What is a teacher?
Self-propagation? Self-annihilation? One enters a room and begins to speak
without hope--and most important, without despair.
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Favorite Writers and Artists
Harold Cruse
Jacques Derrida
Emily Dickinson
Amiri Baraka
Kathy Acker
Cyrus Cassells
Ralph Ellison
Melvin B. Tolson
Miklos Radnoti
Carl Phillips
Tyree Guyton
Elizabeth Alexander
Taylor Brady
Rob Halpern
Glenn Ligon
Arnold Kemp
Jasper Johns
Susan Howe
Erica Hunt
Robert Rauschenberg
Nathaniel Mackey
Sherrie Levine
Liz Waldner
Barrett Watten
Elizabeth Willis
Richard Wright
Favorite Movies
Zentropa
Wages of Death
No Down Payment
Character
The Four Seasons
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Women On The Edge Of A Nervous Breakdown
Hangin' With The Homeboys
Aria
Out of the Past
Angel Face
Law of Gravity
Choose Me
Trouble In Mind
The Women

Favorite Music
John Coltrane
Television
Milton Nascimento
Max Roach
The Clash
Warren Zevon
Miles Davis
Jimmy Webb
The Rolling Stones
Smokey Robinson
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Spearhead
Ron Carter
Iris DeMent
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Joe Ely
Cecil Taylor
Andy Fairweather Low
Butch Hancock
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