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I have an essay on Williams due out this year in the annual journal of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Collective. The group, based in Rutherford, NJ, where Williams lived and delivered, invited me to give the opening presentation at its monthly reading in February and asked me, when I was done, to submit it as an essay.

Basically, I examine WCW's "no ideas but in things" dictum and his contribution to the "American poetry" canard. I'm pretty rough on him, really. I was surprised that the rather idolatrous group let me finish my talk, never mind asking me to submit it for the journal.

Some very good poets there--John J. Trause, Claudia Serea, Don Zirilli, and Jim Kline. I've featured there with poetry as well, and Quincy R. Lehr is due up some time soon. A lot of the group is staunchly anti-formal, clinging to WCW for some sort of justification in this!

RM

Cultural note: You read there before a large cardboard-backed photo of the doctor smiling down on the podium.

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