Poetry Performed Episode 017 - January by William Carlos Williams

Episode 017 - January by William Carlos Williams
With the new year now well under way, and winter continuing to rage, this week we are turning to a highly prominent American poet, William Carlos Williams, and his poem, “January”.

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January by William Carlos Williams

Again I reply to the triple winds

running chromatic fifths of derision

outside my window:

                                 Play louder.

You will not succeed. I am

bound more to my sentences

the more you batter at me

to follow you.

                                 And the wind,

as before, fingers perfectly

its derisive music.

That was January by William Carlos Williams. William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1883. In 1952, he was named the Poet Laureate of the United States. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1963, shortly before he died. In addition to being a highly accomplished poet and writer, he was also a well-respected physician.

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