"To Elsie" Symposium - A digital recording of a one-hour discussion of William Carlos Williams's remarkable poem, conducted by Al Filreis, Bob Perelman, Kristen Gallagher and Shawn Walker, who fielded questions from people watching on the internet, among them Jena Osman and Terrence Diggory. See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event.

The people of the Kelly Writers House launched their live-broadcast websites with this symposium. Some thirty people in various locations "tuned in" and participated by posing questions and comments via email. You can see the text of the poem here. Excerpts: Bob Perelman on how the open architecture and "unsuccessful" quality of Williams' poems are relevant to poetics today (mp3) Al Filreis on Williams' attraction to the new "mixed" American culture (mp3) Writers House Webcast Archive