Week 9 begins!
Today we begin week 9 (chapter 9.2) of ModPo 2019. Week 9 is about aleatory poetry—poems written by or through chance operations, quasi-nonintentional poems, poems written through or in spite of severe rules or...
Author: Al Filreis
New video: on Mayer’s “The Incorporation of Sophia’s Cereal”
We’ve long admired how Bernadette Mayer incorporates things, scenes, people, occasions from her daily life in her poems. This is at the heart of the New York School style, of course. Then there’s the...
ModPo update for 11/1/2019: 1) SloPo; 2) Final Words; 3) Kelly Writers House New York event; 4) week 9
Hello and greetings from the Kelly Writers House on this Friday of week 8 of ModPo 2019! SloPo Two more weeks left of what we call “the symposium mode” of ModPo for this year!...
ModPo webcast at the Morgan Library: photos
Thanks to Christine Nelson, Morgan Library curator and ModPo friend, we hosted a live ModPo webcast at the library in New York City on October 30, 2019—for a discussion of our week 8 poems:...
ModPo update for Tuesday of week 8: 1) webcast, 2) forum activity; 3) Bay Area meet-up
The ModPo team is preparing for our quick trip to New York City tomorrow. Our live worldwide webcast will begin at 6 PM (eastern US time) at the Morgan Library. You can join us...
ModPo 2019: week 8 begins!
Today we have begun week 8 of ModPo 2019. Weeks 8, 9, and 10, taken together, constitute our effort to present three approaches to the foundations of contemporary U.S. poetry. That’s why you will...
ModPo update: 1) weeks 7 & 8; 2) PennSound; 3) audio intro to LangPo; 4) O’Hara essay; 5) Kelly Writers House
Today is our final day working together to read and discuss the poems of the New York School—week 7. Week 8 begins tomorrow. Of course if you only had a chance to read a...
We recommend Ashbery’s “Hard Times”
Today i want to mention and recommend just one poem we read this week—John Ashbery’s “Hard Times.” Ashbery is not really—or not often directly, anyway—a political poet. But “Hard Times” gives you a sense...
Welcome to week 7 on the New York School (plus *news* of new poems & videos)
Today (Sunday, October 20) we begin week 7 of ModPo 2019. This week we will be reading and discussing the New York School poets. In the main ModPo syllabus we encounter Frank O’Hara, Barbara...
ModPo update for Friday of week 6 (2019): 1) read a poem today; 2) City Lights; 3) meet-ups this weekend; 4) Beats in general
It’s Friday of week 6 of ModPo 2019! Perfect day for taking a break from work or play or childcare or your workout to read a poem. How about Bob Kaufman’s “Jail Poems” HERE....