William F. DeVault in 4-D sound and full color

Hey, you'd be amazed what you can find, knowing what I know, being where I've been and talking to those who either, out of rage or shyness, don't speak with the poet.

For instance, if the only place you ever see William F. DeVault is here, you probably have not encountered the picture at left, which is the one we recently put up at his profile and store at lulu.com, where you can buy several of his books, as well as his CD.

I'd drop by, if I were you. It's not the most glorious site for his works, but you get to see his range there, and the picture is visually interesting. It's very recent, although he has since taken the mustache off.

If your thing is his voice, either musically or his "naked" readings, there are many, many hours of him, not only at his Radio City of Legends page, but also at the remarkable archive.org, which is where the majority of his files are stored and available in multiple formats for listening and downloading.

And, of course, let's not forget AuthorsDen where he often Easter Eggs poems and stories and essays not available anyplace else!

The WikiPedia has a nice page about the poet at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._DeVault. Authoritative and mostly accurate, although I note they do not have any sexual anecdotes about him there, so how much fun can it be?

If you are into that sort of thing, the Annie Merner Pfeiffer Library at West Virginia Wesleyan College, where he did not attend and has never even been invited to read, has a page about him here. If you are doing a report on the poet/author/cult figure, it pays to have citations. Note that no school where he actually attended has ever made tribute to him, his high school (Morgantown High School, Morgantown, West Virginia) even misplaced a shaipment of books he sent for an entire graduating class one year.

There's only a handful of quotes from him on the web's best site for interesting quotations, BrainyQuote.com, but they did get his ironic "A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue" right, so I'm in for them.

And, finally, as if you didn't already know, we have The City of Legends which is his official site, and can take hours, if not days, to fully explore.