This issue is dedicated to the memory of Bryce Conrad, editor of the William Carlos Williams Review from 2004 to 2010, who died on 14 September 2017 after a long battle with brain cancer. On announcing the news of Bryce’s death to the Board of the journal and to the membership of the Williams Society, a warmth of feeling pervaded the responses both of those who knew him well or had only known him through correspondences. As tends to be the rhythm of friendships in academia they are often fed only by meeting at conferences but can be established in advance by knowing a person through their writing. I certainly had my first impression of Bryce through reading Refiguring America as a postgraduate in Leeds. To then be in contact with him by email confirmed what I felt on finally meeting him in person, namely that he was a warm,...

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