Episode 25: William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say"

from Poetry For All · host Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen

In this episode, we discuss a simple, iconic, "sorry-not sorry" poem from the early age of American modernism, which has taken on new life in the age of Twitter and the pandemic. For more on William Carlos Williams, see the Poetry Foundation. See the text of "This is Just to Say" there as well. “This Is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909-1939, copyright ©1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

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