Filter results
14 results
Poet
William Carlos Williams
B. 1883 D. 1963
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) famously combined the two careers of doctor and writer, along the way founding a specifically American version of Modernism. He was born in Rutherford, New Jersey,…
Poem
The Red Wheelbarrow - William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens….
Poet
Lorine Niedecker
B. 1903 D. 1970
…Carlos Williams, and also with Zukofsky himself, with particular regard to her use of short lines and colloquial language. Niedecker and Zukofsky corresponded by letter for two years, and when…
Poet
Charles Tomlinson
B. 1927 D. 2015
…a translator from languages including Italian, Spanish and Russian, testify to that vision, as do his friends, who have included William Carlos Williams, Octavio Paz, Vasko Popa and Philippe Jaccottet….
Poet
Robert Hass
B. 1941
…Carlos Williams Award for his second book, Praise (1979) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Sun Under Wood. Hass has also made his mark as a translator, most…
Poet
Robert Pinsky
B. 1940
…continued to be hallmarks of Pinsky’s wide-ranging poems. Pinsky has been the recipient of many prizes and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams…
Poet
Li-Young Lee
B. 1957
…Book of My Nights (2001) which won the 2002 William Carlos Williams Award, and Behind My Eyes (2008). Lee has also published a volume of memoir, The Winged Seed: a…
Poet
Amy Clampitt
B. 1920 D. 1994
…William Carlos Williams, as ornamented as Wallace Stevens and as descriptive as Marianne Moore.” In an essay entitled Predecessors, Et Cetera, Amy Clampitt cites Gerard Manley Hopkins as her own…
Poet
Linda Gregg
B. 1942
…poems, All of It Singing [2008] which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. Other honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a…
Poet
Anthony Joseph
B. 1966
…sayings: You only become a Caribbean poet when you leave the Caribbean. – Kamau Brathwaite A poem is a machine made of words – William Carlos Williams I poem my…
Poet
Ezra Pound
B. 1885 D. 1972
…artists Pound collaborated with and championed during this period reads like a roll call of English language modernism: James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, HD, Marianne Moore and above all, T….
Poet
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
B. 1947
…home, domesticity and family. He has said: ‘Discovering the French and the Americans (Pound, William Carlos Williams, Ginsberg) was, for me, a moment of liberation. My subjects did not lie…
Poet
Robert Creeley
B. 1926 D. 2005
…William Carlos Williams, Charles Olsen and, in addition, Denise Levertov, Ed Dorson and Fielding Dawson, all of whom were part of the Black Mountain poets, born out of Black Mountain…
Poet
Jim Carruth
B. 1963
…poet John Clare and the Amercian modernist William Carlos Williams. Like these poets, Carruth pays close attention to landscapes and traditional practices precisely becausee they are endangered by larger technological…