William Carlos Williams : The Poetry Foundation : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry. William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry.
Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Lit-Med. William Carlos Williams. Reading at the 92nd Street Y, January 1954 complete recording (19:15): MP3(recording courtesy of the 92nd Street Y) The recordings below were originally compiled and published from Keele University, England, by Dr.
Richard Swigg in 1992 and 1993. PennSound gratefully acknowledges the scholarship and editing of Dr. Swigg in making this Williams sound archive available.