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...
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 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...
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...
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...
See below for three links pertaining to Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “The Chicago Picasso.” We have now added an excerpt from a 1969 interview in which Brooks talked about that poem. This is all in...
This poem is being discussed HERE. Whether you are reading this as it is posted, or soon after–or much later—we urge you to click HERE and add your thoughts. The text of the poem...
A ModPo’er who is not familiar with the U.S. asks about our emphasis on “the American Beauty Rose” in our discussions (during week 3) of imagism’s rebuke of the clichéd rose. Here is a...
Recently we added a short commentary on canto 8 of “Song of Myself” to the main week 1 syllabus. Here is that brief essay: * In canto 8 we encounter the poem’s first urban...
Some time ago we recorded an episode of PoemTalk about a poem by Robin Blaser, “A Bird in the House.” Then we found ourselves in San Francisco, meeting up with ModPo people, and decided...