Join the William Carlos Williams Society in Paris, in heart of the Latin Quarter, for the 11th William Carlos Williams Society Biennial Conference. We seek papers on any aspect of William Carlos Williams’s works, but we especially welcome papers relating to Williams and Paris, Williams and French or francophone authors, or on readings of Williams’s work in relation to one or more of the alumni of the École normale supérieure in Paris
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Special Double Issue of the William Carlos Williams Review: Williams’s Latin American and Caribbean Heritage
The William Carlos Williams Review invites submissions for a special issue dedicated to exploring Williams’s Latin American and Caribbean heritage, emphasizing his engagement with Puerto Rican, Caribbean, Peninsular, and Colonial Spanish literary traditions, alongside broader themes of borders and translation—linguistic, geographic, and cultural—that shape his work.
Continue readingCFP for MLA 2026 Toronto: William Carlos Williams and Failure
How did William Carlos Williams understand “failure”? Proposals on unfinished works, works Williams understood as failures, the opportunities he saw in failure, or how poets/critics have evaluated his work and his place in literary history.
Continue readingMLA 2025 (New Orleans): 100 Years of In the American Grain and Williams and Jazz
The William Carlos Williams Society is sponsoring two sessions at the 2025 MLA convention in New Orleans (9–12 January): William Carlos Williams and the Question of ‘America’: 100 Years of In the American Grain” and “William Carlos Williams and Jazz.”
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 Tenth Biennial Conference of the William Carlos Williams Society
will convene at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, February 15–17 2024
Williams/Levertov, Levertov/Williams 1923–2023: Confluences
Call for papers on the shared views, poetics, and engagement with history and social reality in the works of Williams and Levertov, as well as their differences and divergences. Abstracts by July 21, 2023
Continue readingALA 2023 (Boston) Lowell and Williams
Beyond the settled and superficial views that result from the repetition of a few well-worn quotes from Lowell about Williams, what can we learn from reading these two writers together now?
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 host two panels at the American Literature Association’s 33rd Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 26-29, 2022
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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.
Continue readingWilliams and Medicine
A double issue of the William Carlos Williams Review will be published in Spring 2022 on the topic of “Williams and Medicine,” guest-edited by Theodora Rapp Graham and Richard Ratzan,MD.
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