Charles Kenneth Williams was born in Newark, New Jersey. He was educated at Bucknell University and at the University of Pennsylvania, where he took the B.A. in 1959. Since 1972 he has been a contributing editor for American Poetry Review. In 1974 he...

BAD JUDGMENT By Cathleen Calbert. Sarabande Books. 71 pp. $12.95 (paper). REPAIR By C. K. Williams. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 71 pp. $22. Liz Rosenberg's book of prose-poems, "These Happy Eyes," will appear later this year. She teaches creative writing at the State University...

Narrative innovation is a nearly ubiquitous fact of modernist poetic practice. In the context of the defining narratives of high modernism--Hart Crane's The Bridge, T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland," Ezra Pound's Cantos, and William Carlos Williams's Paterson--poets experimented with narrative structure to produce...

Frederick Seidel, one of the world's most inspired and unusual poets, orders an espresso and Pellegrino at the Carlyle Hotel.It is late morning, dark and cozy in the Carlyle's Gallery lounge. The Twin Towers have fallen. George W. Bush is president. Robert Kennedy is dead....

In the following interview, originally conducted on October 30, 1991, Williams discusses the function of poetic form in his own work, the historical and narrative aspects of poetry, trends in contemporary poetry, criticism, and writing programs, and the role of poetry as a moral force and mode of shared consciousness.

In the following interview, originally conducted on November 21, 1985, Williams discusses the political role of poetry, his literary influences and preferred poets, his approach to writing and aesthetic concerns, his work as a translator, and his thoughts on contemporary poetry.

In the following review of Flesh and Blood and Poems, 1963–1983, Santos examines the development of Williams's distinct poetic voice and style from the 1960s to present.