William Carlos Williams

Starving Artists: Why Authors Write Books About Being Poor

John Marsh | Posted 05.14.2012

John Marsh

Among the modern poets who reinvented poetry in the early decades of the twentieth century, nearly everyone, and especially the poets whom people think of when they think of modern poets -- Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes -- wrote about the poor.

Plums and Wheelbarrows: When Poets Disagree

John Lundberg | Posted 09.09.2011

John Lundberg

Williams' red wheelbarrow poem, in fact, can be read as a direct challenge to Eliot, who had a far different view of the direction that poetry should take in the early 20th Century.

Disgruntled Poets Channel William Carlos Williams

guardian.co.uk | Alison Flood | Posted 09.05.2011

Disgruntled poets channelled William Carlos Williams yesterday when they delivered a red wheelbarrow carrying members' signatures to the Poetry Societ...

Poems That Celebrate the Summer

John Lundberg | Posted 08.24.2011

John Lundberg

Spring officially left us this past Tuesday. So to help us get off on the right foot with the season, I've collected some great poems that celebrate the joys of summer.

Random Variations On William Carlos Williams 'This Is Just To Say'

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 06.10.2011

It's a simple and beautiful confession written by William Carlos Williams. The original is below. Take a look at the random versions here, with everyt...

Ilan Stavans' Magnum Opus: After 13 Years, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature Is Here

Joshua Kors | Posted 05.25.2011

Joshua Kors

I make my books for elite audiences, mainstream audiences, families in the barrio. That's not a contradiction. It's a full life.

'Project Runway' And Poetry

The Poetry Foundation | Stephen Burt | Posted 05.25.2011

Stephen Burt The Poetry Foundation If you follow contemporary poetry but you haven't been following "Project Runway," the popular cable TV show now i...

Harold Norse, R.I.P.

Jan Herman | Posted 11.17.2011

Jan Herman

He said he was a poet, too. I no longer recall what we talked about, but it didn't take long for him to invite me back to his room at 9 rue Git-le-Coeur, the so-called Beat Hotel.

A Little Poetic Gluttony

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

John Lundberg

I once heard a nutrition expert claim that no matter how much you eat, it's impossible to gain a pound during a meal. Well, on one day a year, all of...