William F. DeVault
New Generation Beat Poet Laureate
USA Beat Poet Laureate 2017-2018
The Romantic Poet of the Internet™
Gallery of Book and CD Covers. as well as pictures from the road
The City of Legends is your gateway to explore the works of William F. DeVault. Known for his insights into love, life, and spirituality, as well as his insistence of the integrity of the poetic moment, refusing to revise works, DeVault's writings inspire and captivate readers with their eloquence, emotional depth and pioneering spirit.As a gift to his readers, he has set pdf eBooks of several of his volumes, including his full run with Venetian Spider Press, as free reads/free downloads at the Internet Archive. <-click here
Cover: Selected Poems and Passions: 1972-2011 (2018)
Cover: Quintessence (2019), merges Cleave, Bragi, Mythos, Grace into one volume
Cover: qoheleth (2024). The rligion of poetry
Cover: TACHYON (2020), includes the poems resurrection, and for my brother, as he accelerates
Cover: EROica (2023)Cover: Mariya Andriichuk
Cover: liaison (2021), 15 heroic crowns of sonnets, written in a manic 31 days
Cover: Kintsugi (2025). 881 poems expressing the emotional patchwork in my poetry
NBPF Lifetime New Generation Beat Laureate Plaque (2025)
Monongallia Arts Center, Morgantown, WV 2018, photo by Mariya Andriichuk
NBPF Lifetime New Generation Beat Lureate, 2025
NBPF 2019
Monongalia Arts Center , Morgantown, WV 2018. photo by Mariya Andriichuk
NBPF Lifetime New Generation Beat Lureate, 2025
NBPF 2017
NBPF 2021
Self Portrait 2023
Cover: from an unexpected quarter (1998)Credit: Ann-Michelle
Cover: Gentle Into That Good NIght (2016)Credit: David DeVault
Cover: Ronin in the Temple of Aphrodite, 2nd edition (2013)Credit: Alice Oprescu
Cover: Bragi (2007)Credit: Mariya Andriichuk
Cover: The Best of amomancies (2018)Credit: Mariya Andriichuk
The first lit journal to publish his works, The Rose's Hope (1983)
Cover: love/addict (2006)Credit: Liz Albuquerque
Cover: cleave (2016)Credit: Mariya Andriichuk
The Rolling Stock Poets: R. Nikolas Macioci, William F, DeVault, John Burroughs, Sandra Feen, Daniel McTaggart (NP: Carlo Parcelli)
Illustration of the poet by Daniel McTaggart
Cover: The Morgantown Suite Poems (2006)Photo by Ron Rittenhouse
Cover: Selected Poems and Passion 1972 - 1996 (2013)Credit: Ifigenia Tsitsa
Cover: Selected Poems and Passion: 2004 - 2011 (2012)Credit: Tifa
Cover: As such... (2008)Credit: Candy Tothill
Cover: Mythos (2017)Credit: Aysha Nasser
Cover: Grace (2015)Credit: Aysha Nasser
On Tour in Michigan (2018)
Cover: Coronato (2016)Credit: Mariya Andriichuk
Montani Semper Literati poster (2015)
My friend, the poet Carlo Parcelli, gone but never forgotten.
Cover: love gods for a forgotten religion (2002)Credit: Ann-Michelle
Morgantown Calendar featuring his poem, "2 a.m. in Morgantown"
Kerouac Cafe appearance (2016)
Cover: PanthEon (1997)Credit: Lauri Jon Elliott
CD Cover: Nemicorn
CD Cover: Amomancer: NightbloomingCredit: Jasmine Martinez
CD Cover: the last romantic verb
On tour in Connecticut (2017)
The Compleat Panther Cycles (original cover draft, 2005) Credit: Jillian Ann
Daniel McTaggart illustration that is accurate. I have a professed hatred of microphones.
On Tour with his "constant collaborator", Mariya Andriichuk
Selected Poems and Passions: 1996-2004 (2013)Credit: Mariya Andriichuk
Invocato (2006)
CD Cover:TRUTHCredit: Mariya Andriichuk
CD Cover: TBD
Blaspheme (2014)
Maquisard: the romance of resistance (2016)
101 Great Love Poems (2002)
The Compleat Panther Cycles (2nd edition cover, 2013) Credit: Alice Oprescu)
CD Cover: The Naked Reads
Discover William F. DeVault's Voice and Vision
Paramour and nothing more
Padparadscha
when home is all that matters
from William F. DeVault's mega-volume Kintsugi
Love is an Howling Beast
The 15th Crown of Sonnets from liaison, "Denouement"
exploring the pain of lost love