William Carlos Williams: Doctor, Poet, Painter

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) William Carlos Williams was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism and his innovative poetry (both its form and content) reflected many art movements associated with modernism. His verse departed from the influences of ‘the European academies’ and, instead, experimented with new techniques that did away with metaphor …

The Poetry of Joseph Stanton: Words Meet Images

  THE POETRY OF JOSEPH STANTON       Joseph Stanton is a Professor Emeritus of Art History and American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Four of his seven books of poems are ekphrastic: Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art (1999), Things Seen (2016), Moving Pictures (2019), and Prevailing Winds (forthcoming in 2021). …