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 June 30, 2023.
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Join 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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