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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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
We have now added a new George Oppen poem (and video about the poem) to our modest collection of Oppen materials in week 5 (chapter 3). Below are all the links now in that...
As part of the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 5 (chapter 6), we have added a section of poems by so-called “confessional poets” of the late 1950s and 1960s. We have been edging toward discussions...
We have now added three poems and two new videos to ModPoPLUS week 3. These are from—and about—Rosa Alcalá’s book Undocumentaries. We met up with David Colon in Seattle in January 2020 to talk about...
