The William Carlos Williams Society will be sponsoring a panel at the second conference of the Society for the Study of American Poetry, March 27–28, 2026 in Salem, Massachusetts.
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Digital Williams:ALA, Boston, Massachusetts, 21–24 May 2025
Join us in Boston for a panel discussion organized around the presence and circulation of Williams in social media, in digital archives, and across digital platforms. How do digital platforms and tools enable readers to engage with Williams’s poetry and prose or make visible the critical art of reading poems? What new digital platforms (and/or tools) might be useful for readers, students, teachers, and scholars of Williams?
Continue readingALA 2024 (Chicago): Botanical Williams
Williams’s study of and focus on the botanical deeply informed his career in medicine and his literary work; and his poems are rich with imagery of all kinds of plants, especially flowers. We are interested in papers that explore how he used plants of all kinds as inspiration and as a vehicle for his imagination.
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The William Carlos Williams Society has finalized two panel discussions at the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, May 25–28, 2023.
Continue readingALA 2023 (Boston) The Great American Novel at 100
How do we understand its mixed composition, its challenge to novelistic chronology, and its shifts of voice from persona to persona? What do we make of the fact that much of it is stolen? Is the dialogue between the urbane interrogator and the one he calls “mon vieux coco” central? What does the text teach us about the canonical idea of a “great American novel”?
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The William Carlos Williams Society will sponsor two panels at the 2021 Annual Conference of the American Literature Association in Boston, Massachusetts. The dates of the conference are July 7–11.
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