Malvern Books will celebrate the launch of Lost in the Telling, the first full-length poetry collection from poet and musician Harold Whit Williams. Williams will be joined on stage by fellow poet Josh Boyd.

Williams is guitarist for the critically acclaimed rock band Cotton Mather. He is also a prize-winning poet and recipient of the 2014 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize. He was featured poet in the 2014 University of North Texas Kraken Reading Series, and his collection, Backmasking, was winner of the 2013 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize from Texas Review Press.

Boyd is a poet residing in Austin. He started working as a spoken word artist in 2001 at the age of 17 and has performed all over the US as well as in Mexico, Spain, and Morocco. His first collection of poetry, Catacomb Confetti, was released through Write Bloody Publishing in 2010. He is currently working on an album featuring his new poetry, slated for release later this year.