William Carlos Williams Society

Small town doctor & modernist poet.
Re/Tweeting poems, quotes, news, some parodies.

Operated by the WCW Society

[William Carlos Williams Society @W_C_Williams]

We exist to help scholars and fans learn more about Williams!

That's it. That's the whole reason. :)

[Hazel Smith @haze20091]

Many thanks to the William Carlos Williams society!

[Grande Aquila @turkificator]

William Carlos Williams.

[phillip crymble @phillipcrymble]

The William Carlos Williams poem I always come back to

[Nausicaa Renner 🍷🌑🌊 @nausjcaa]

William Carlos Williams

[Bret van den Brink @BretVDB]

“Stevens is a troubled man who sings well, somewhat covertly, somewhat overfussily at times, a little stiffly but well. If he were satisfied with that! He seems at his best singing in the four-beat time and the lyric form of this excellent poem.”

—William Carlos Williams, @newrepublic 17 November 1937

[William Carlos Williams Society @W_C_Williams]

Counterpoint:

[Bret van den Brink @BretVDB]

Wallace Stevens on William Carlos Williams:

“It will be found that he has made some veritable additions to the corpus of poetry, which certainly is no more sacred to anyone than to him. … In respect to manner he is a virtuoso. He writes of flowers exquisitely. But these things may merely be mentioned. Williams himself, a kind of Diogenes of contemporary poetry, is a much more vital matter. The truth is that, if one had not chanced to regard him as Laocoon, one could have done very well by him as Diogenes.”

[Bret van den Brink @BretVDB]

I am reminded of William Carlos Williams on Wallace Stevens:

“I don’t like … ‘Owl’s Clover.’ It has its old woman very effectively balanced against the heroic plunging of sculptured horses, but nothing moves as it should.
Five beats to the line here, and that’s where the trouble is let in. These five beats have a strange effect on a modern poet; they make him think he wants to think. Stevens is no exception. The result is turgidity, dullness and a language, God knows what it is! certainly nothing anybody alive today could ever recognize - lit by flashes, of course, in this case; for whatever else he may be Stevens is always a distinguished artist. The language is constrained by the meter instead of there being - an impossible peak it may be - a meter discovering itself in the language. We are still searching. Much more might be said were there space for it.”

[Dustin Illingworth @ddillingworth]

William Carlos Williams, “Paterson”

[Edmund @Kulambq]

'I myself value [David] Schubert more than Pound or Eliot, and it's a relief to have an authority of the stature of [William Carlos] Williams to back me up.'

John Ashbery

[William Carlos Williams Society @W_C_Williams]

The WCW Society Biennial conference will be held this October 23-24, in Paris. We'd love to see you there!! Voila, the call for papers:

[christian ericson @bright_moments]

all along the road the reddish, purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes and small trees with dead, brown leaves under them leafless vines— lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches

- william carlos williams

[Epoché Magazine Archive @Epoche_bot]

From the archive: "The Seen and the Unseen in Pieter Bruegel the Elder and William Carlos Williams", by Turner Roth https://t.co/nSmMXKqLsJ

[William Carlos Williams Society @W_C_Williams]

New CFP for MLA 2027!

Californian Williams
Seeking papers that elaborate Williams’s relationship to California and West Coast culture

One-page abstract to Mark C. Long [email protected] no later than Friday, March 20, 2026, please!

[William Carlos Williams Society @W_C_Williams]

@emollick In related news, you might enjoy this (human-made) game, as well: https://t.co/mi3R0fB521?

[William Carlos Williams Society @W_C_Williams]

THIS is a first - a horror game based on a Williams poem, written by AI. Yikes!

"I awoke happy, the house
was strange, voices
across a gap"... (The Revelation, 1914)

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Claude Code: "make a really amazing horror game based on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, just the wheelbarrow and the plums poems."

All the writing and design by Claude. I actually found it unnerving, despite the crude, "hand-drawn" graphics. https://t.co/yFrXgfLNMl

[William Carlos Williams Society @W_C_Williams]

@emollick That greeny flower's a heartbreaker!

[William Carlos Williams Society @W_C_Williams]

@emollick It predates the wheelbarrow and plums - a little Keatsian, as Williams was in the early days. :)

Say, is the game still working? I keep getting a Connection Reset.

[lucy (from scotland) @absobloodylucy]

william carlos williams frantically looking around for a pen:

[your cousin vinnie @skidr0ck]

william carlos williams

[John McNally / Johnny Mack @JMcNallyBooks]

William Carlos Williams / The Farmers’ Daughters
New Directions

[Peege @bloodsigns]

William Carlos Williams • Al Que Quiere!