We recently added another video to ModPoPLUS week 3 — in which Al discusses Wallace Stevens’s “Anecdote of the Jar” with Elisa New and her “Poetry in America” colleagues. The recording took place in...
This is a 1-minute excerpt from our conversation about Susan Howe’s “The Midnight” as we stood in front of the Houghton Library at Harvard two early springs ago. This video is part of our...
We have prepared a 1-minute excerpt of a discussion with poet Jerome Rothenberg of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. Here it is:
We are now making available a short video in which the ModPo team further discusses the week 8 “Canon Challenge” video by Amber Rose Johnson. The discussion took place during a November 2020 webcast....
We have now added to ModPoPLUS week 8 an 8-minute video clip in which the ModPo team discusses Fred Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I” during a November 2020 live webcast....
For ModPo people who admire the work of Caroline Bergvall in week 10 of our course: We at PennSound have now segmented (by topic discussed and poem performed) Caroline Bergvall’s appearance on Leonard Schwartz’s...
ModPo short—a 1-minute excerpt from a longer conversation filmed in a San Francisco park a few years ago in which Jake Marmer & Lily Applebaum talk about a poem titled “Poem” by ruth weiss. The clip...
1-minute clip from the longer video made in Vancouver about Fred Wah’s great poem “Between You and Me There Is an I”:
Recorded during the spring ’20 time of lockdown, during the first shocks of the pandemic, this special episode of PoemTalk considered William Carlos Williams’s “Spring and All” (“By the road to the contagious hospital”)...
The ModPo team talks for five minutes about the poem Nasser Hussain wrote, using only three-letter airport codes, in response to Walt Whitman—during a 2020 live ModPo webcast.