1 de octubre de 2024
Mark C. Long, Linda M. Rodríguez Guglielmoni, Marta Aponte Alsina and Rossana Duchesne Winter, Julio Marzán,
W. Scott Peterson, MD., Jonathan Cohen, Michael Huffmaster, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, UPR-M.
Dr. Mark C. Long, Professor of English Emeritus, Keene State College President of the William Carlos Williams Society Crossing Borders / Cruzando Fronteras Tinta regada 1 de octubre de 2024 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…
As co-director of the on-site organizing committee, I had the honor to welcome a distinguished group of professors, scholars, and poets to the 10th Biannual International Conference, Crossing Borders/Cruzando Fronteras, which was held at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez campus from Thursday, 15th to Saturday 17th of February 2024. The conference was dedicated to William Carlos Williams, medical doctor, multilingual writer, and one of the most important poets of the 20th century.
Marta Aponte Alsina and Rossana Duchesne Winter That fertile darkness: Mayagüez, the mother and the poet Tinta regada 1 de octubre de 2024 First of all thanks to the William Carlos Williams Society for its loyalty to a strong and sensitive poetic universe. If ever in time there has been a need for ecstatic beauty…
Mayagüez in Williams’ narrative about his mayagüezana mother Elena Hoheb William is the backdrop of his earliest poems about her in Al Que Quiere, poems that voiced his displeasure with what he perceived as her upbringing romanticized. Her escapism characterized with memories of Mayagüez and Paris and succumbing to spiritualist trances colors The Autobiography, a portrayal he walked back in Yes, Mrs. Williams. This erratic composite makes up the narrative of Williams’ conflicted understanding of Elena.
María del Carmen Quintero Aguiló Reading the Shore from the “Edge, Unseen”: Kamau Brathwaite’s Tidalectics in William Carlos Williams’s “Flowers by the Sea” Tinta regada 1 de octubre de 2024 This is an exercise in the crossing of oars. An exploration of the spaces in-between, the perpendicularity of things that transcends to yield parallels. Such…
W. Scott Peterson, MD Comments on the William Carlos Williams Biennial Tinta regada 1 de octubre de 2024 As an independent scholar who has published work on William Carlos Williams,* I have attended all the WCW Biennials to date. They are wonderful meetings, allowing anyone interested in Williams to participate in the substantive discussions following…
Michael Huffmaster William Carlos Williams and Bibliotherapy Tinta regada 1 de octubre de 2024 As a scholar of German (which is to say, not English or American) literature, I have what I would call an average educated North American’s familiarity with the poetry of William Carlos Williams. That is to say, I know the two…
(Foto por Jonathan Cohen.) I flew from San Juan to Mayagüez on 2024 Valentine’s Day to attend the three-day conference of the William Carlos Williams Society, hosted by the Universidad de Puerto Rico there. It was a thrill to fly along the island’s north shore in a small plane and see from above the blue ocean with its white ribbon of surf, then briefly over the lush green mountains just before landing. This was not my first time in Puerto Rico but my first time visiting its western coast and Mayagüez.
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera Medicinal Poetry: Words, Places, Code-Switching, and Healing in William Carlos Williams’s Language Tinta regada 1 de octubre de 2024 Upon contextual reflection on William Carlos Williams’s connections to Mayagüez, his family links to Judaism, and a period-specific look at the neighborhood where his mother lived on Calle Méndez Vigo, in this paper I…