Join the William Carlos Williams Society in Paris, in heart of the Latin Quarter, for the 11th William Carlos Williams Society Biennial Conference. The conference program is available at the conference web site or by scanning the bar code on the conference flyer available in this news item.
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William Carlos Williams in Paris
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
Continue readingALA Symposium on American Poetry
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.
Continue readingWilliam Carlos Williams and Failure: MLA Toronto 8–12 January 2026
Join us in Toronto for our 2026 MLA session “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 readingDigital 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 readingMLA 2025 (New Orleans): 100 Years of In the American Grain
Join us in New Orleans for our 2025 MLA session “William Carlos Williams and the Question of ‘America’: 100 Years of In the American Grain” featuring presentations by Stephen Hahn, Florian Gargaillo, and Zachary Tavlin.
Continue readingProceedings of the 2024 William Carlos Williams Society Biennial Conference
The Proceedings of the William Carlos Williams Society Biennial Conference is available in the October 1, 2024 edition of Tinta Regada, edited by Professor Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and his students at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.
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.
Continue readingMSA Brooklyn: “Everything is and is new”: Spring and All at 100
A seminar for participants to consider the many afterlives of Williams’s Spring and All and to engage with both its overt and subtle influences in the work of poets throughout the twentieth century and into the contemporary moment.
Continue readingWilliams/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 readingJoin us in Boston at the 2023 ALA
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) 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”?
Continue readingMLA 2023 (San Francisco)
A celebration and critical assessment at the 100th anniversary of the publication of William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All.
Continue readingChallenging Williams: Biennial Meeting of the Society in Chicago
The Biennial Meeting of the William Carlos Williams Society is scheduled for June 23-25th in Chicago
Continue readingMLA 2022 Multilingual Williams
William Carlos Williams—including but not limited to his multilingual home and upbringing, his experiences living in Germany and France, his recognition of the need for knowledge of foreign languages, his readings of poetry and/or prose in translation, and his translations from Spanish, French, Greek, and Chinese.
Continue readingMLA 2021 William Carlos Williams Thinking
A session dedicated to exploring William Carlos Williams’s thinking about the nature, function and operation of the mind. What would it mean to read Williams without privileging familiar terms and categories like imagism, objectivism or, more provocatively, the ordinary things which have so often anchored critical treatments of his work?
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