a ModPoPLUS playlist — a selection of ten poems & videos from the first half of the course
Recently Kent Ekberg, a long-time devoted ModPo’er and someone whose grit we admire a lot, mentioned that he was looking for some new interesting things to read and watch. We suggested a “best of” playlist from ModPoPLUS. Here is a “top ten” from the first half of the course:
Emily Dickinson, “I NEVER SAW A MOOR”:
read Dickinson’s “I Never Saw a Moor”: LINK TO TEXT
read the Stedman Anthology’s edited version of “I Never Saw a Moor”: LINK TO TEXT
watch discussion of “I Never Saw a Moor”: LINK TO VIDEO (17 mins.) [OFFSITE COPY]
watch further discussion of “I Never Saw a Moor”: LINK TO VIDEO (8 mins.) [OFFSITE COPY]
Walt Whitman, “On the Beach at Night Alone”:
read Whitman’s “On the Beach at Night Alone”: LINK TO TEXT
watch discussion of Whitman’s “On the Beach at Night Alone” on location: LINK TO VIDEO
Rae Armantrout, “Second Person”:
read Rae Armantrout’s “Speech Acts”: LINK TO TEXT
watch Rae Armantrout & Al Filreis discuss “Speech Acts”: LINK TO VIDEO
Kate Colby, “Middleman”:
read Kate Colby’s “Middleman”: LINK TO TEXT
watch discussion of Kate Colby’s Middleman: LINK TO VIDEO
Al and Anna in London, standing in front of the Primrose Hill house where Sylvia Plath lived.
H.D. and Junzaburo Nishiwaki
read H.D.’s “Oread”: LINK TO TEXT
read Junzaburo Nishiwaki’s “Rain”: LINK TO TEXT
watch discussion of Nishiwaki’s “Rain” with Andrew Houwen: LINK TO VIDEO
On Gertrude Stein:
watch discussion of Stein as pedagogy: LINK TO VIDEO (7.5 mins.)
watch discussion of Stein & the labor of listening: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
watch discussion of Stein as a conversationalist: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
watch discussion of materiality in Stein: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
KURT SCHWITTERS
read Kurt Schwitters’s “Asthmatic Poem”: LINK TO TEXT
watch discussion of Schwitters’s “Asthmatic Poem” (filmed at Tate Modern, London): LINK TO VIDEO
look at/read Kurt Schwitters’s “Picture of Spatial Growths”: LINK TO IMAGE
watch discussion of Schwitters’s “Picture of Spatial Growths” (filmed at Tate Modern): LINK TO VIDEO
Kenneth Fearing, “Green Light”:
read Kenneth Fearing’s “Green Light”: LINK TO TEXT
listen to Al Filreis perform Fearing’s “Green Light”: LINK TO AUDIO
watch discussion of Fearing’s “Green Light”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
ANNE SPENCER
read Anne Spencer’s “Earth, I thank you”: LINK TO TEXT
read a biographical profile of Anne Spencer: LINK TO TEXT
listen to a discussion of Spencer’s “Earth, I thank you”: LINK TO AUDIO
watch collaborative close reading of “Earth, I thank you”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
SYLVIA PLATH
read Sylvia Plath’s “Words heard, by accident, over the phone”: LINK TO TEXT
watch discussion of Plath’s “Words heard…” (on location in Primrose Hill, London): LINK TO VIDEO
