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: week 9
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...
“The SoCal Spellers”: nonspeaking autistic ModPo reading group in southern California
“The SoCal Spellers” have been posting to the ModPo forums, contributing their comments to our discussions of individual poems. We here on the ModPo team invite all ModPo people to respond to their posts!...
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...
Joan Retallack reads herself through Gertrude Stein
In October 2000, nine poets gathered at the Kelly Writers House. Each was asked to choose a modernist writer who had been a significant influence. Joan Retallack chose Gertrude Stein. Here, below, is a...
Joan Retallack, “None Too Soon”
Here is Joan Retallack’s poem “None Too Soon.” And here is a recording that was made at a 2013 reading at Zinc Bar in New York and is available at the Retallack PennSound page:...
texts of 3 poems from Joan Retallack’s Bosch series
Here are three poems from Retallack’s Bosch series: LINK TO TEXTS —–
Joan Retallack SloPo mini-course (Jan 6-20, 2023)
Welcome to the SloPo mini-course on the writings of Joan Retallack. If at any time you have questions about how our mini-course is working, please don’t hesitate to contact Al Filreis at afilreis@writing.upenn.edu. Our...
Rosmarie Waldrop writes through the Declaration of Independence
Listen as Rosmarie Waldrop writes through the Declaration of Independence using N+7 chance operations: