William Carlos Williams Society

03/24/2026

The WCW Society Biennial conference will be held this October 23-24, in Paris. We'd love to see you there!! Voila, the call for papers:

03/13/2026

NEW CFP for the MLA 2027!

"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.

One-page abstract to Mark C. Long [email protected] no later than Friday, March 20, 2026!

02/26/2026

Well, THIS is a first - a /horror/ game based on Williams's poetry -written by AI !

01/31/2026

50 years of Williams (and others) on the tube! 🚇

Judith Chernaik, an American writer in London, started the Poems on the Underground project 40 years ago

01/28/2026

Williams continues to inspire!

Check out our latest News post, about an album of poem-songs by J.T. Woodhouse & The Leaves of Grass

08/05/2025

Call for Papers!
for a special double issue of the William Carlos Williams Review!

Topic: Williams’s Latin American and Caribbean Heritage

In collaboration with the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes; the editors welcome academic articles, informal commentaries and reflections, in English or Spanish, up to 5,000 words.

MOre information is available on our website: https://williamssociety.org/call-for-papers/special-double-issue-of-the-william-carlos-williams-review-williamss-latin-american-and-caribbean-heritage/

07/18/2025

The Society is Very happy to announce the recipient of this year's Walter Scott Peterson Prize - an annual prize of $500 for the best work published in the William Carlos Williams Review in a given year.

Please join us in congratulating 2024's winner Richard Ratzan, on his excellent article “Ambiguity in the Short Fiction of William Carlos Williams.” Please click through to read the high praise of his article.

Interested in learning more about the Prize? See our website, or contact Ian Copestake, editor of the Review.

Congratulations, Rich!!

https://williamssociety.org/research-and-scholarship/walter-scott-peterson-prize-volume-41-2024/

07/17/2025

You've "Gotta" try this Williams-inspired game! The plums are waiting for you. & fully explore the kitchen for subtle references to other WCW poems! All credit to creator and poet Calum Rodger. :)

A ludic prequel to William Carlos Williams' poem 'This Is Just to Say'

06/09/2025

Martín Espada's "Insult" - a fantastic reaction to/exploration of Williams in his stroke era

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2025/01/insult/

"Stroke: insult to the brain, leaking blood; insult to the right eye, now blind;
insult to the right hand, now dead"

Insult / From the Print Journal, Poetry, Winter 2025By Martín Espada Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here For William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) Stroke: insult to the brain, leaking blood; insult to the right eye, now blind; insult to the right hand, now d...

02/28/2025

parody by https://bsky.app/profile/tesslecuyer.bsky.social/ lol

02/28/2025

"the merciless February
of it all - "

"The Cat's Month" (1921)
+ a photo of WCW, with kittens (Beinecke Library at Yale)

02/14/2025

"3. St. Valentine" (from 1941, "poems for Paterson")
swimsuit photo (!) with wife Flossie