The William Carlos Williams Society will be sponsoring a panel at the second conference of the Society for the Study of American Poetry, in collaboration with the American Literature Association, March 27–28, 2026, at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts. The Keynote Speaker will be Evie Shockley, Rutgers University
William Carlos Williams panel
Salem Symposium on American Poetry
Chair: Stephanie Burt
“’Sing me a song to make death tolerable’ (107): Death in Paterson I- IV” Christopher MacGowan, Professor of English, Emeritus, College of William and Mary
“‘And now by the sea a new world death has come….’: The Art of Williams’s Memorialization of Emily Dickinson Wellcome,” Stephen Hahn, Professor of English, Emeritus, William Paterson University
“‘Thickets’ and ‘Pulpy Weeds’: Marginal Ecologies in William Carlos Williams’s Paterson” Kyra G. Morris, Assistant Professor of English, Endicott College
