Rae Armantrout’s “Care” added to ModPoPLUS week 8
When in Seattle in January 2020, the ModPo team met up with various ModPo people, friends, and poets — including Rae Armantrout and Bob Perelman — and recorded a collaborative close reading of a...
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Edwin Rolfe’s “Season of Death” added to week 5/chapter 3 (communist poets)
Edwin Rolfe, a member of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) in the 1930s, wrote a poem about the Depression called “Season of Death.” This poem and a video of our discussion of...
Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge’s “Concordance” added to ModPoPLUS week 8
Section 1 of Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge’s “Concordance” is now part of the week 8 syllabus in ModPoPLUS — along with a video in which Al and the TAs discussed the poem. Here is the new...
Nanao Sakaki “Small People” added to ModPoPLUS week 6
Nanao Sakaki’s poem “Small People” — and a video accompanying the poem — have been added to week 6 of the ModPoPLUS syllabus. The video features Davy Knittle and Wai Chee Dimock, recorded in...
Dickinson’s “He fumbles at your Soul” — added to ModPoPLUS — new video
Cristanne Miller and Davy Knittle talk with Al Filreis about a poem now added to ModPoPLUS—Dickinson’s “He fumbles at your Soul.” PART NINETEEN: HE FUMBLES AT YOUR SOUL 19.1 read Dickinson’s “He fumbles at...
Michael McClure added to the Beats week in ModPo
We have added three poems from Michael McClure’s Ghost Tantras to week 6 (the Beats) of the ModPoPLUS syllabus, as follows: PART TWENTY-TWO: MICHAEL McCLURE 22.1 read three poems from Michael McClure’s “Ghost Tantras”: LINK...
Susan Howe’s “The Midnight”: excerpt & video made on location
We went to The Houghton Library at Harvard University to record a discussion of an except from Susan Howe’s The Midnight. Here is the updated entry for Susan Howe’s work in ModPoPLUS, including the new...
re-reading Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” in the context of documentary photography (new video)
During our live webcast co-hosted with MoMA, we talked about Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” in the context provided by our discussion of Dorothea Lange’s documentary photography of Depression-era people who move into the...
Imaad Majeed on Bernstein’s “In a Restless World”
We have added a 14-minute video in which Al talks with Imaad Majeed about Charles Bernstein’s poem “In a Restless World Like This Is,” part of our ModPoMinute series.
new abridged version of our discussion of Frank Lima’s “Plena”
A new 12-minute abridged version of our discussion of Frank Lima’s “Plena” is now available, thanks for the talented editing of Makena Deveraux. https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/K6tjl