Dave + AI turn Al’s week 9 intro into pop song
Dave Poplar was so taken with Al’s audio intro to week 9’s aleatory poetry that — in the spirit of week 9’s playing with alteration, re-making, re-use, and appropriation (it’s the thing of week...
Category: aleatory poetry
When the ModPo TAs were asked to make aphoristic statements about how week 9 can be a guide to living….
This is what they said: The stuff is already there, find it. (Ali)Abandon selfhood immediately. (Gabi)We’re all in this together. (Dave)New sense instead of nonsense. (erica via Joan)Everything is collaboration. (Laynie) Get someone to...
Al’s welcome to week 9 (aleatory poetry) for 2025
In the week ahead we hope you will join us as we read and discuss poems composed by chance, by quasi-nonintentional means, by aid of computer program, by gamification and randomization, by deterministic processes!...
ModPo participant has “A Vocabulary for Peter Innisfree Moore” on his wall
John Sanchez has been involved with ModPo since 2020 at least. He was a star learner during our pandemic seasons. He did the course with his dad. Recently John wrote this to me: “My...
Rosmarie Waldrop writes through the Declaration of Independence
Listen as Rosmarie Waldrop writes through the Declaration of Independence using N+7 chance operations:
John Cage’s conception of beauty — a new 4-minute video
We have now added to ModPoPLUS week 9 a 4-minute video in which we discuss John Cage’s conception of beauty.
further discussion of Tristan Tzara’s cut-ups (10 mins.)
10-minute video in which the ModPo people talk about Tristan Tzara’s experiments with “cut-ups”:
Week 9 begins!
Today we begin week 9 (chapter 9.2) of ModPo 2019. Week 9 is about aleatory poetry—poems written by or through chance operations, quasi-nonintentional poems, poems written through or in spite of severe rules or...
ModPo update for 11/1/2019: 1) SloPo; 2) Final Words; 3) Kelly Writers House New York event; 4) week 9
Hello and greetings from the Kelly Writers House on this Friday of week 8 of ModPo 2019! SloPo Two more weeks left of what we call “the symposium mode” of ModPo for this year!...
Discussion of Cage’s idea that poetry can demilitarize language
Further discussion of John Cage’s idea that poetry can demilitarize language: