TWA poet: William Carlos Williams

1883-1963

Today is the birthday of the man who wrote this highly-recognizable and oft-parodied poem:

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast.

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

That's William Carlos Williams, born in Rutherford, New Jersey (1883). He was a doctor as well as a poet, and his poems often sp…