William Bortz

How are we to learn to grieve when it feel unrelenting? How are we to adore and memorialize small moments of appreciation? How are we to shape our grief into something worth celebrating, and begin to understand the grief we give?

The Grief We're Given

An explosive and elevated exploration on love, longing, and loss, Many Small Hungerings is a timely and necessary collection of poetry from writer William Bortz.

Many Small Hungerings is the newest collection of poignant poetry from writer and poet William Bortz. In his follow-up to 2021’s The Grief We Are Given, Bortz dives even deeper into the complexities of grief and loss, as well as the ever-elusive grip of nostalgia and memory. A warm embrace in a cold world, Many Small Hungerings is a must-have for every lover of poetry.

Many Small Hungerings

The Sky Grew Back with Clouds is the first installment of a chapbook poetry series entitled 'make time to breathe today'. This chapbook of poetry, like the series itself, focuses on the relationship we have with nature. How we ingest a stale afternoon or a swelling moon. Accompanying the nature theme is the ebb and flow of wanting; in our longing exists, often, malcontent. This chapbook pokes at that reality, and how when a moment is spared to observe, the wants and longings become so small they hardly exist at all, leaving room for a moment to breathe and do nothing else.

The Sky Grew Back with Clouds

'Shards' is William Bortz's second full collection of poetry. It is an outstretched hand to anyone left behind in the dark, and a challenge to see the path to healing as one that winds through discomfort. 'Shards' is inspired by William's fractured past and exists as a journey from disconnectedness and grief to self-love and forgiveness. Having spent most of his childhood in foster care, homeless, and surfing couch to couch, he explores the difficulty in walking with anxiety and beginning the process of mending. With lines such as "can leaving ever be an act as graceful as slowly fading to morning" and "one day I decided to take a step and it hurt less than standing still", William leans into that discomfort in order to find reconciliation with himself and others.

Shards

A collection of poetry inspired by the doubt and self-deprecation quietly intertwined in relationships. An attempt to understand the difference between the stress of wanting things to get better, and the anxiety of trying to keep them together when they are.

William Bortz

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