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…

1 de agosto de 2024
Natalia Bustos, Michael Huffmaster, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Sara Gavrell Ortiz, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, Carmen Haydée Rivera Vega, mary leonard, Tope Bada, Jorge Rodríguez Acevedo, Jason Weiss.

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…

Carmen Haydée Rivera Vega Journeys through Dual Homespaces: Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora Tinta regada 1 de agosto de 2024 Diasporic Puerto Rican writers have entered a new century of artistic production and critical analyses that highlight the myriad ways in which authors of Puerto Rican descent (born on the island or in the…

mary leonard ¿qué hacer con el dolor? the uses of silence, images, words Tinta regada 1 de agosto de 2024 I think of how it is possible to respond to collective and personal traumas caused by, among other things, the repeated shocks to the system of economic and energetic crises, of natural disasters, of violence,…

Tope Bada The Mysterious Beauty of a Birdsong! Tinta regada 1 de agosto de 2024 The cacophony of sounds you hear in the forest are often distinct and unique but the loudest of all in this diffused symphony on verdant tapestry often belongs to birds. I have often wondered while growing up in my agrarian…

Fotos por Jorge Rodríguez Acevedo.

Conocerme entre estas líneas o es más entre mis propias palabras, ha sido todo un proceso de deconstrucción a lo largo de mi vida; hoy me reconozco como una caminante de las orillas y una fiel creyente de que los mundos otros son posibles. Pero llegar hasta este punto no ha sido fácil, encontrarme con mis propias contradicciones y cuestionarme acerca de mi vida personal, vocacional y académica ha sido el reto de mi vida.

Héctor Bravo Vick Entrevista sobre la obra El Judío Mayagüezano Tinta regada 1 de agosto de 2024 Cuenta por favor, un poco sobre tu biografía, tus intereses, preparación y experiencias – y sobre cómo todo eso se ha cristalizado en este libro. Nací y me crié en Mayagüez. Estudié en los niveles de escuela elemental…

Sara Gavrell Ortiz Rezumando Pensamientos Tinta regada 1 de agosto de 2024 “Que cosas interesantes se te ocurren.” Dijo él, al rozar su mano. “Jamás me hubiese preguntado si el malhumor de la bartender es porque perdió un bebé hoy.” Añadió, tomándose el último trago de ron. A él no le pareció extraño. Había leído…

Jason Weiss Potocki Tinta regada 1 de agosto de 2024 From the start of his “Mémoire sur l’ambassade en Chine” (1806), about a failed Russian delegation he was part of that never got past Mongolia, Jan Potocki makes it clear that Western arrogance was to blame most of all. Or at least in the persons…

New Bedford puede ser descrito como una zona geográfica, una comunidad (realmente varias conviviendo), una colección de ideas heterogéneas (que a veces se contradicen), una historia multifacética (fundada en silencio imperial), pero más que nada es una serie de experiencias, voces, vidas y culturas. Para mí lo que es atrayente de New Bedford es su sutil pero definitivo distanciamiento de la cultura imperial norteamericana, a pesar de su ubicación geográfica.

Tinta regada1 de mayo de 2024: Una puede ser ajena y a la vez una misma, Natalia Bustos, UPR-M.–The Most Valuable Professional and Life Lessons I Learned from My Yoga Instructor and Why They Matter for the Humanities, Michael Huffmaster, UPR-M.–Reseña: “Translingual Practices for Applied Humanities,” por Kevin Carroll, Brian Torres, UPR-M.–Hablando nos entendemos, Cora…