On the continued relevance of the Beats (video clip from webcast)
Video (9 minutes long): on the continued relevance of the Beats, a discussion that includes poets Angela Carr and Rae Armantrout.
Author: Al Filreis
ModPoMinute on Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways”
The newest episode of our weekly YouTube series called “ModPoMinute” is about the first section of Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.”
On the experience of re-reading the New York School
During a 2018 live webcast for week 7, we discussed the experience of re-reading the New York School poets. Here is that 4-minute clip:
A 60-something newbie to poetry calls into a webcast & we respond
One evening, during a ModPo webcast, we received a call from a self-described newbie to poetry. She’s 60-something, and her nephew recommended ModPo to her, and she loves it. The ModPo team responds:
On loss and silence in Perelman’s “Chronic Meanings”
Jake Marmer & others talk about loss and silence in Bob Perelman’s poem “Chronic Meanings”:
New video: further discussion of Harryette Mullen’s “Any Lit”
Further discussion of Harryette Mullen’s “Any Lit”—a clip from a fall 2018 webcast:
Further discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass”
Here is an edited clip from our October 2018 webcast discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass”:
Video: teaching with Bernadette Mayer’s writing experiments
VIDEO: on teaching with Bernadette Mayer’s list of writing experiments. Al is joined by erica kaufman and Anna Strong Safford. Al picks out a few of Mayer’s ideas and asks erica and Anna to...
Jason Camlot’s “31 Awakenings” (added to our Canadian sampler)
To the week 10 syllabus of ModPoPLUS we are now adding a poem by Jason Camlot called “31 Awakenings.” And of course a video recording of a discussion about that poem. The discussion features...