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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CFP for MLA 2027 in Los Angeles: Californian Williams
Seeking papers that elaborate Williams’s relationship to California and West Coast culture, broadly defined or focused on various Los Angeles poetry scenes, Williams’s reading tours, engagement with Hollywood, or relations to western modernism.
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 readingMarjorie Perloff (1931–2024) In Memoriam
The Williams Society received the news of Marjorie Perloff’s death at the age of 92, on Sunday March 24, with heavy hearts. While Perloff is more immediately associated with poets like Frank O’Hara, John Cage, John Ashbery or the Language poets, Williams studies has benefited enormously from her pioneering work.
Continue readingTenth 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 readingWilliam Carlos Williams: Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras
The Tenth Biennial Conference of the William Carlos Williams Society
will convene at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, February 15–17 2024
MLA 2024 (Philadelphia) William Carlos Williams, Paterson, and the Environmental Humanities
Join us in Philadelphia for our 2024 MLA session “William Carlos Williams, Paterson, and the Environmental Humanities”
Continue readingHugh Witemeyer (1939-2022) In Memoriam
Hugh Witemeyer, who died last May, taught at the University of New Mexico for more than 40 years. Born in Flint, Michigan, Hugh was a central figure in Ezra Pound scholarship, having established his reputation with The Poetry of Ezra Pound: Forms and Renewal: 1908-1920 (Univ. of California, 1969), based on his Princeton dissertation under A. Walton Litz.
Continue readingJohn T. Lowney (1957–2022) In Memoriam
This past September admired friend and respected scholar, John T. Lowney, passed away at the age of 65. John was professor of English at St John’s University in Queens, New York.
Continue readingA Concordance to the Poems of William Carlos Williams!
The Society is thrilled to announce that our open-access, digital concordance to the poems of William Carlos Williams is live!
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 readingWCW Society Bylaws Update
Founded in 1975, the William Carlos Williams Society has been through myriad growths and changes in its history. In an effort to keep its governing documents up to date with the processes we now use, the Executive Committee of the Society has undertaken to revise the bylaws of the Society.
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