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"

"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

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

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 mlong@keene.edu

"Complete Destruction" (1921)
+ WCW's passport photo (1919)

#poetry #modernism #wcw #williamcarloswilliams #passportphotos #deadcat #fleas

"--through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones"
- "A Sort of Song" (1944)

also pictured: saxifrage

#poetry #modernism #ecopoetry

"O marvelous! what new configuration will come next?
I am bewildered with multiplicity." - "At Dawn" (1914)

Let's talk and learn about WCW together!