Allen Ginsberg visited Georgian Court University in 1995 to talk with students in a British Romantics course led by Dr. Eric Wurmser and Dr. Gail Holian. Ginsberg read and discussed a range of poems, including “Good Night” by William Carlos Williams.
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Tenth Biennial Conference in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Since 2005 the William Carlos Williams Society Biennial Conference has brought together writers, literary and cultural historians, and independent scholars to discuss Williams’s writing and its relationships to modern poetry and other literary forms––in North America and in other areas of the world. The 2024 conference, Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras, convened at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez February 15–17, 2024.
Continue readingWalter Scott Peterson Prize (Volume 39 2022 and Volume 40 2023)
We are pleased to announce the 2022 (volume 39) award for Sam S. Hushagen’s “William Carlos Williams and the Traditions of Georgic,” and the 2023 (volume 40) for Florian Gargaillo’s “Invisible Labor in William Carlos Williams”
Continue readingThe Paterson Project
A Musical and Visual Response to William Carlos Williams’ poem: a composer of modern classical music and a visual artist unite to create the Paterson Project, based on the poetry of William Carlos Williams
Continue readingA Note on the Childhood Home of William Carlos Williams
Recent data collected by Rutherford Borough Historian Rod Leith provides evidence to support Williams’s birthplace as 87 West Passaic Avenue.
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).
Continue readingNew Acquisition in the William Carlos Williams Collection at the University of Buffalo Libraries
A collection of the papers of William Carlos Williams has found a new home in the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries at the University of Buffalo.
Continue readingWilliams and the Medical Humanities
A pre-med undergraduate at Oxford College at Emory University, Audrey Ruan, recently discovered an unpublished manuscript by poet and physician William Carlos Williams.
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