Molly O’Neill to return as ModPo TA for 2020
It’s the time of year when I announce the reappointments of ModPo TAs for the next “symposium mode” round of ModPo. First up—to join us for a 9th year as fabulously thoughtful & intellectually...
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Rosmarie Waldrop on Stein’s “exact resemblance”
We are adding a new video to ModPoPLUS week 4. In it we discuss Rosmarie Waldrop’s poem about Stein’s idea of “exact resemblance,” a concept we will recall from Stein’s portrait of Picasso. The...
ModPoMinute video on Dickinson’s “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”
The newest episode of ModPoMinute (the 72nd in our series) has now been posted: a very brief discussion of Emily Dickinson’s “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” with Cristanne Miller and Davy Knittle.
SloPo course on multilingual American poetry, led by Jason Zuzga
Migrations into English: Indigenous, Immigrant, and Multilingual American Poetry A SloPo class — February 8 to March 4, 2020 Join in to the extent that you have time for. Everyone is welcome to...
New video: collaborative close reading of “The Snow Man”
The other night the Writers House community once again celebrated wintry doldrums with its annual “Mind of Winter” event, featuring home-made soup (warm!) and bread (warm!) and a fire going in our fireplace (warm!)—and...
Video on Niedecker’s “Foreclosure” filmed at LN’s cabin on Black Hawk Island
Today we are adding a new ModPoPLUS video: Max McKenna traveled to Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where Lorine Niedecker lived, and filmed a collaborate close reading of Niedecker’s “Foreclosure” with members of the...
On Craig Dworkin’s “The Pine Woods Notebook” with Danny Snelson
Yesterday we posted episode 71 of our ModPoMinute YouTube series. This episode features a discussion of Craig Dworkin’s “The Pine Woods Notebook” with Danny Snelson:
ModPo 2020 webcast schedule now set!
ModPo people: mark your calendars! The schedule of ModPo 2020 webcasts has now been finalized! Note our special visitors during weeks 3, 6, and 10. And note also that this year our road trip will...
ModPo announces: “SloPo” mini-courses for winter/spring 2020
We here at ModPo are very pleased to once again be able to offer brand new SloPo mini courses to any and all ModPo students who want to join them. Two of these courses...
ModPo in Seattle
Nicholas “Denny” Stern, great ModPo guy (Community TA), in Seattle last night after our ModPo meet-up there (at Town Hall Seattle). We talked about Rae Armantrout‘s new poem “Care” and also Lorine Niedecker’s “My Life...