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The poem I chose to show today is written by William Carlos Williams and called “Spring Storm”. William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1883. While in Mann High School, William started to write poetry, and pursue a medical career. At the University of Pennsylvania, Williams received his M.D. Williams also met a future friend and important person that would influence his writing. Williams meet Ezra Pound, who helped Williams publish his second set of poems. After Williams’s second poems were published, he returned home to Rutherford where he continued to write poetry and other literature pieces as well as continuing his medical practice. His poetry now began to focus on everyday life of the common people. Williams continued to write and practice medicine throughout his entire life. After a heart attack and a series of strokes in 1948, Williams eventually died in 1963. (www.poets.org/poets) Martin J