Erica Hunt added to ModPoPLUS week 8
Erica Hunt, who is often associated with the Language poets, has been added to week 8 of ModPoPLUS. Her poem “the voice of no” has long been part of the week 5 syllabus of...
Author: Al Filreis
A Gertrude Stein primer—ModPo videos for those who want to understand Stein
Over the years we at ModPo have assembled a number of short videos that will help you introduce yourself to the (supposed) “difficulty” of Gertrude Stein. These are available in the first section of...
Robert Grenier: a drawing poem
Charles Bernstein and Al Filreis discuss one of Robert Grenier’s “drawing poems.” From ModPoPLUS part 2: 3.4 look at/read one of Robert Grenier’s drawing poems: LINK TO TEXT/IMAGE 3.5 watch a discussion of Robert...
ModPo TA Amaris Cuchanksi: watch a highlight reel
Makena Devereaux has prepared this 4-minute highlight reel of some of the greatest moments in which Amaris Cuchanski responds brilliantly in some discussion or another.
ModPo Short: 1-minute video on Frost’s “For Once, Then, Something”
This is a 1-minute excerpt from a longer video featuring Al Filreis, standing in Biscuit Creek of New York State, talking about Robert Frost’s sonnet, “For Once, Then, Something”:
ModPo Short: 1-minute video on Anne Waldman’s “Rogue State”
A 1-minute clip from an October 19, 2016, live webcast:
ModPo Short: 1-minute video on Gertrude Stein’s “Water Raining”
A 1-minute clip from the October 1, 2014, live webcast on Stein:
ModPo Short: 1-minute video on the social specificity of the Beats
From an October 17, 2018, live webcast, featuring poet-critic Angela Carr.
Filreis leads a “Listening Practice” workshop on February 17, 2021
On Wednesday (Feb 17) Al Filreis will be leading a “Listening Practice” workshop for SpokenWeb, the Canada-based consortium of digital audio archiving. https://spokenweb.ca/events/virtual-listening-practice-guided-by-al-filreis/ [<–click to register]
Live collaborative close reading of Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man”
On Thursday, January 28, at 6:00 PM (ET), Kelly Writers House Faculty Director & ModPo founder Al Filreis will lead a collaborative close reading of Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Snow Man” — and you...