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

TIL Billy Dee Williams had a prequel.

Manda decir William Carlos Williams que:

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...

● Old & Busted: George Orwell ● The New Hotness: William Carlos Williams

I’ve only just read William Carlos Williams’ Asphodel for the first time. I feel jimmyed open.

You lot are always riffing on that one William Carlos Williams poem about the cold plums when it's not even his best (which is of course Danse Russe)

Fue un día gélido enterramos el gato, después le prendimos fuego a la caja 4 #poemas de William Carlos Williams, seleccionados por Juan Domingo Aguilar.

BlueSky isn’t funny? We’ve got William Carlos Williams remixes; what more do people want?

Apropos of nothing

"My poem "Genius After ICE" is another William Carlos Williams patchwork piece up now at dadakuku. Thanks to Editor/Publisher petro c.k. for providing this one bright spot before the days to come. #poetry #poetrycommunity @petrock.bsky.social @dadakuku.bsky.social

William Carlos Williams:

April is National Poetry Month, so I'm going to try to post a poem every day of the month for your amusement. Here's a foretaste:

Our library puzzlers have been stuck for the whole week on the plum trees in this Charles Wysocki jigsaw, so I wrote a little motivational poem for them 📚

Tom Leonard...

Başta Cenap Şahabettin ve William Carlos Williams olmak üzere bütün şair hekimlerimizin 14 Mart Tıp Bayramını kutluyorum.

In an essay on poetic measure, William Carlos Williams talks of hearing 'a nameless bird singing, Ah chee, ah chee! Chee, chee, chee!' Anyone ever had a stab at naming that nameless bird?

William Carlos Williams

For cyber security reasons IT now says your password must contain a William Carlos Williams poem.

My 6th grader said they were writing “sorry/not sorry” poems in English class. What’s a “sorry/not sorry” poem? “You know, like the one about eating the plums?”

Oft-overlooked little poem there! Evergreen.

William & Carlos Williams seria um bom nome de dupla sertaneja

Two Parlando Project musical pieces using the work of early American Modernist poet Alfred Kreymborg. This one, dedicated to William Carlos Williams, from earlier in the Project when I could spend extensive, assured hours on composition: frankhudson.org/2018/08/06/t...

I've never sat with William Carlos Williams and I'm so annoyed at how much I'm loving every other poem. I'm never finishing this collection cause every other poem is enough and I just re-read them over and over.

Please RT (re-sky?) for visibility :) Reminder of this CFP on WCW & the idea of failure; Abstracts due next Friday, for those interested! #MLA26

yes! After all " sluggish dazed spring approaches—"! #Spring&All

William Carlos Williams in Spring and All: "Only the imagination is undeceived."

The good doctor. William Carlos Williams who died on March 4, 1963. "We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels."

Spotted in a random corner of EWR yesterday - "View Under the Bridge", by Eyvind Earle, commissioned by William Carlos Williams in 1943. 13' high canvas, looks like it's probably the original, but no tags. Last mention of it online was 15yrs ago, indicating it was going to be at One WTC.

It's great to see 'The Widow’s Lament in Springtime' by William Carlos Williams, published in Volume 1 of his Collected Poems, as the Poem of the Week in @theguardian.com! Read Carol Rumens's commentary here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. #Poetey William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems

"the merciless February of it all - " "The Cat's Month" (1921) + a photo of WCW, with kittens (Beinecke Library at Yale) #poetry #cats #modernism #wcw

A great reminder to watch Jim Jarmusch’s movie ‘Paterson’ … especially if you like dogs or William Carlos Williams or Adam Driver looking less emo than usual. youtu.be/m8pGJBgiiDU

William Carlos Williams - The Use of Force (1038) This short story, about a doctor making a house call, uses some very disquieting symbolism. Why do this? Too, what’s Williams inferring about human nature? Also, if you don’t want them, can I have some of your fries? (Just keeping it light, folks.)

Here’s my performance of another short poem by the mysterious Mary Carolyn Davies. She was published in Others magazine alongside Mina Loy & William Carlos Williams. Link has a summary of what little I could find about her in 2021: frankhudson.org/2021/05/26/s...

Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. –through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! William Carlos Williams #poetry #writer

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

To further explain ... this quote from William Carlos Williams which I encountered during the early '80s moved me deeply. Plus having hoarder relatives who died in their hoards increased my motivation. So Williams' words "while the power is still yours" are a dreadful warning to me.

CFP! for MLA 2026 Toronto, January 8–11 "William Carlos Williams & Failure" Papers on unfinished works, works Williams saw as failures, opportunities in failure, or how others have evaluated his work & place in literary history. Submit 300–500-word abstract by Friday March 14 to [email protected]

“Un mundo nuevo no es más que un nuevo modo de pensar.” William Carlos Williams

Poet William Carlos Williams.

"Complete Destruction" (1921) + WCW's passport photo (1919) #poetry #modernism #wcw #williamcarloswilliams #passportphotos #deadcat #fleas

“Insult” is about William Carlos Williams and the drive to survive, even transcend the “insults” of our lives to carry out our work and make our voices heard. Read and listen to the poem at the Michigan Quarterly Review online here. sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2025/01/...

Great review of /The Brutalist/, describing the influence of Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, who was in turn influenced by....William Carlos Williams! See also: poem "The Hard Core of Beauty" (1949) (CP II, pp 191-2)

I haven’t read poetry for pleasure in a while. To get back into it with William Carlos Williams’ Paterson has been a delight.

What a pretty cover!! Interestingly, there are multiple versions of /Selected Poems/ - the first edited by Williams himself, published by @ndbooks.bsky.social in 1949. The one pictured was a separate selection by a poet/scholar in 1985.

poets.org/poem/january-3 #booksky #poetry #williamcarloswilliams #january 💙📚