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  • Rutherford Celebrates the 125th Anniversary of William Carlos Williams’s Birth
  • Kerry Driscoll

On September 20–21, 2008, the town of Rutherford, NJ held a birthday symposium organized by Della Rowland, chair of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Symposium, to commemorate their hometown poet’s 125th birthday. It was an ambitious, eclectic program, featuring artwork inspired by Williams’s poetry created by local school-children, a concert performed on Raquel Elena Hoheb Williams’s piano, a bus tour of Williams sites by borough historian Rod B. Leith, and a wide variety of readings, lectures, and panel discussions by both scholars and members of the Williams family. Dr. Robert Coles gave an informal presentation on “What I Didn’t Put in My Books: A Personal Remembrance of WCW,” and Paul Mariani, author of William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked, gave a moving reading of Williams’s poetry and a selection of his own verse. The full roster of events can be found online at www.williamcarloswilliams.org.

The following pages offer a sampling of the talks presented on this historic occasion. [End Page 67]

Kerry Driscoll
Professor of English, St. Joseph College, West Hartford, CT, and President of the William Carlos Williams Society
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