"More Space Than Anyone Can Stand presents the reader with 
voices and scenes so authentically American that reading these we 
feel a sense of privilege and celebration. Bill Notter knows the 
dark side of our violences, our lusts, our stupidities, but he knows 
as well what makes us the industrious, committed, enduring souls 
we are as well. These poems don’t so much lift off the page as they 
burrow in to trouble us in the best sense, so we can’t forget to 
question who we are as a people, and, for those of us who write, 
what it means to be an American poet."—Gray Jacobik, Series 
Judge

    "William Notter dares to be simple in most of these poems, 
free-verse as clean and pared-down as his subjects and landscapes, 
including Nebraska’s emptiest county. I say ‘most’ because the 
world of his imagination also includes the unclean stench of 
rendering plants, the gathering of roadkill, the terror of raped 
women; and his forms include three haiku and a fine sestina. 
Notter writes of hard lives in poems that look deceptively 
simple."—Robert Phillips, author, Spinach Days and News About 
People You Know

    "There is in Bill Notter’s poetry an astonishing honesty that does 
not diminish the complexity of his vision. He is an American 
poet—Midwestern, Western, and Southern. He is a realist and a 
great pleasure to read. This little book will increase in value as the 
years go by. What we have here is the onset of a major career."
—James Whitehead 
 
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WILLIAM NOTTER was educated at the University of Evansville 
and the University of Arkansas. He has received two Walton
Fellowships for poetry and a Chester H. Jones Foundation
award. His poems have appeared in such journals as Alligator
Juniper and The Formalist. He currently lives in Reno, Nevada.