William Carlos Williams was an American-Puerto Rican poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. In hi
Portrait by Man Ray, 1924
A selection of William Carlos Williams poetry on a plaque in New York City
I saw the figure 5 in gold. Charles Demuth, 1928. The Great Figure Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city. William Carlos Williams 1920.
Mina Loy was a British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first-generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognitio
Loy (centre) with Jane Heap and Ezra Pound in Paris, c. 1923
Consider Your Grandmother's Stays, a 1916 drawing by Mina Loy