Some mesostic poems made by ModPo’ers
Some compelling mesostic poems have been made by ModPo people already. Check them out HERE. HERE is one by Marc Bauch that “writes through” one of Ahab’s famous scenes in Moby-Dick. HERE is one by Sophia Naz...
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ModPo bonus videos
Need a break today? Why not spend some time watching some short “bonus” ModPo videos! Here’s a selection: watch this video on poems we believe can be taught to 11- to 14-year-olds: LINK TO VIDEO watch...
ModPo update: week 9 begins
Welcome again to week 9. In the main ModPo syllabus this week, we read and discuss the aleatory writing of John Cage, Jackson Mac Low, Jena Osman, and Joan Retallack—and the writing experiments of...
ModPo week 9 starts now
Please ponder these questions: Can you imagine a poem whose meaning is not intended? What if a poet, experimenting with the idea of the speaking self, decided to create a compositional process that in...
ModPo update for Thursday of week 8, 2018
Got ten minutes tonight? Terrific! Please click HERE and review some essays! Below, in particular, are six essays on Eileen Myles’s “The Honey Bear” that could use a few more reviews/responses. Please click on at least...
A sampling of our Language poets’ poems (week 8)
Here are some fascinating options for starting into our week 8 syllabus: Lyn Hejinian writes a prose-poem autobiography, following her life year by year—but her sentences are not in chronological order, nor are they of...
Week 8 begins!
Welcome to week 8, our brief encounter with the Language poets. The final three weeks of ModPo constitute what we call “chapter 9.” First chapter 9.1, week 8, is indeed about the Language poets....
On the continuing relevance of the Beats (video clip; 9 minutes)
On the continued relevance of the Beat poets—a 9-minute clip from the week 6 live webcast for 2018, featuring comments from guest poets Rae Armantrout and Angela Carr.
ModPo update for Friday of week 7
Today I’ve been watching all the new #3 essays coming in—posted to the special subforum we’ve set up for them. If you intend to write and post an essay on Eileen Myles’s “The Honey...
High school students reach Al by phone, get advice
Christan Bush is teaching ModPo in her high school class. Which is to say: she and her students are doing ModPo together. Yesterday afternoon they reached Al by telephone in his office at the...