William Carlos Williams Society

We exist to help scholars and fans learn more about Williams! That's it. That's the whole reason. :)

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:

all along the road the reddish, purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes and small trees with dead, brown leaves under them leafless vines— lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches - william carlos williams

From the archive: "The Seen and the Unseen in Pieter Bruegel the Elder and William Carlos Williams", by Turner Roth epochemagazine.org/78/the-seen-an…

New CFP for MLA 2027! Californian Williams Seeking papers that elaborate Williams’s relationship to California and West Coast culture One-page abstract to Mark C. Long mlong@keene.edu no later than Friday, March 20, 2026, please!

@emollick In related news, you might enjoy this (human-made) game, as well: weecalrobot.itch.io/gottaeattheplu…?

@W_C_Williams Yep, still works when i try. Asfodel would also make a good game.

THIS is a first - a horror game based on a Williams poem, written by AI. Yikes! "I awoke happy, the house was strange, voices across a gap"... (The Revelation, 1914)

@emollick That greeny flower's a heartbreaker!

@emollick It predates the wheelbarrow and plums - a little Keatsian, as Williams was in the early days. :) Say, is the game still working? I keep getting a Connection Reset.

@W_C_Williams I haven't read The Revelation - will have to!

william carlos williams frantically looking around for a pen:

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William Carlos Williams / The Farmers’ Daughters New Directions

William Carlos Williams • Al Que Quiere!

Call for Papers! for a special issue of the WCWReview on Williams’s Latin American and Caribbean Heritage Interested? There's more information on our website: williamssociety.org/call-for-paper… pls RT

The Society offers an annual prize of $500 for the best work published in the WCW Review in a given year. The prize is possible through the generosity of W. Scott Peterson – first scholar to publish a book-length study of Paterson and still an active supporter of all things WCW!

Very happy to announce this year's Walter Scott Peterson Prize: please congratulate Richard Ratzan, for his excellent article “Ambiguity in the Short Fiction of William Carlos Williams.” Please click through to read the high praise of his article. williamssociety.org/research-and-s…

Matrin Espada's "Insult" - a fantastic reaction to/exploration of Williams in his stroke era sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2025/01/in… "Stroke: insult to the brain, leaking blood; insult to the right eye, now blind; insult to the right hand, now dead"

William Carlos Williams’s variable foot metric form - visual delineation/ enjambment, lack of specific rhythm but presence of a structure— based on speech / breath patterns. See this piece from Pictures from Brueghel (Pub. New Directions) #williamcarloswilliams #poetrycommunity

lo hermosa que es esta foto de william carlos williams. una sólo quiere lucir así entre flores

william carlos williams 🪻 asfódelo: libro I

New post on the Society website; includes links to a few great digital resources on Williams, and Gary Snyder! #documentary #poetry #modernism williamssociety.org/research-and-s…