William Carlos Williams 10th Biannual International Conference

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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.

Williams’ Unsung Tribute to Mayagüez

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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.

Reading the Shore from the “Edge, Unseen”: Kamau Brathwaite’s Tidalectics in William Carlos Williams’s “Flowers by the Sea”

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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…

Comments on the William Carlos Williams Biennial

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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…

William Carlos Williams and Bibliotherapy

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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…

With William Carlos Williams in Mayagüez

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(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.

Né pour partir

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Né pour partir – Récit de Mamadou, migrant mineur de Guinée Broché (2023) Azouz Begag (Auteur), Mamadou Sow (Auteur), Julien Rico Jr (Illustrations) — — El 19 de septiembre de 2024: Azouz Begag (Auteur), Mamadou Sow (Auteur), estudiantes e invitados incluyendo a Touihri Rabeb. Cora Monroe González y Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, moderadores. — — distance –…