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.

Medicinal Poetry: Words, Places, Code-Switching, and Healing in William Carlos Williams’s Language

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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…

Algarabía, extractos

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Roque Raquel Salas Rivera  Algarabía: La canción de Cenex hijo natural de la Ínsula Alarabíyaa (Graywolf Press, 2025), extractos Tinta regada 1 de agosto de 2024 Algarabía: La canción de Cenex hijo natural de la Ínsula Alarabíyaa (Graywolf Press, 2025) es una epopeya que sigue el viaje de Cenex, un ser trans que narra su…