Max McKenna convened a group of Chicago-land ModPo people to discuss Jennifer Scappettone’s “Delection Even.” The links now added to week 10 of ModPoPLUS include the text of the poem, a recording of the...
The Global ModPo Study Group convened in January 2020 to talk about Whitman’s “I Heard It Was Charged against Me.” The recording of that session has been added to ModPo’s CCCR syllabus. CCCR =...
An excerpt from our week 2 2019 live webcast—a discussion of the ongoing influence of Whitman:
During our week 2 live webcast 2019 we were joined by poet Kate Colby. She read her poem “Homing” (from The Arrangements) and then we discussed it. The poem and video have been added...
3-minute video on what we mean when we call a poem “Dickinsonian”:
Here are the ModPo TAs discussing Stein and honesty—during our 2019 week 4 live webcast:
10-minute video in which the ModPo people talk about Tristan Tzara’s experiments with “cut-ups”:
During our Stein week webcast in 2019, we took a few minutes to offer recommendations to those new to reading Gertrude Stein:
We’ve now added a discussion of Rosmarie Waldrop’s “Cornell Boxes” series — one poem in that series, “Jack in the Box” — to week 10 of ModPoPLUS. The discussion was filmed “on location” in...
ModPo people might recall that Doug Kearney visited us back in November 2019 and joined us for the Beat week webcast. We edited several clips from the full recording of the webcast, and have...