Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED)’s annual poetry competition was named for and envisioned in the spirit of William Carlos Williams. It honors his legacy by celebrating contemporary clinician writers—both medical students and established practitioners—whose work illustrates the art of medicine and the dynamic interplay of health care and the humanities.
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Leggere Poesia. William Carlos Williams e il modernismo statunitense
Published in Italian by Marietti 1820, Cristina Giorcelli’s new book consists of a 27-page Introduction to Modernism and U.S. Modernism and 10 essays that present close readings of 13 poems (2 of them in their earlier and later version) by William Carlos Williams.
Continue readingMy Excellency — With Jonathan Cohen & Gy Mirano at the Drama Book Shop, 266 West 39th Street, New York
The Drama Book Shop presents, in association with Jay Michaels Global Communications, My Excellency: William Carlos Williams’s “Lost” Translation of Luis Rechani Agrait’s Masterpiece — With Jonathan Cohen & Gy Mirano — A Talkback, signing and live podcast recording.
Continue readingMy Excellency, a play by Luis Rechani Agrait, translated by William Carlos Williams
In November Swan Isle Press will publish Jonathan Cohen’s edition of Williams’s translation of Rechani Agrait’s play, My Excellency. The edition includes an Introduction by Cohen, a Foreword by Julio Marzán, and an Afterword by José Luis Ramos Escobar, theater scholar and playwright and former director of the drama department at the University of Puerto Rico−Rio Piedras.
Continue readingLatino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology
Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, edited by Rigoberto González, contains two poems by William Carlos Williams: “All the Fancy Things” and “The Poet and his Poems.”
Continue readingWCW’s lost translation of E.C. Fabre’s short story “Cage”
Scheduled for publication in Translation Review, and now available online, is Jonathan Cohen’s essay presenting Williams’s translation of E.C. Fabre’s short story “Cage,” first published in Blast (1933).
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