C.K. Williams appeared at the KGB Bar in Manhattan on Friday night, reading poems from his forthcoming collection Wait along with other, newer poems, including “Writers Writing Death,” which he said had been finished earlier that day. 

Williams was featured alongside four MFA students as part of the NYU Emerging Writers Reading Series. With his characteristically slow, measured and absorbing pace, Williams read ten poems, often elegiac, about death and writing: “Wait,” “The Coffin Store,” “Blackstone,” “Dust,” “The Foundation,” “One-Hundred Bones,” “Mask,” “Exhaust,” “Writers Writing Death” and “Jew on Bridge.”

There was a Dickman brother there, but it was unclear which one.

Wait is due out in April.