ModPoPLUS keeps expanding. Week 3’s ModPoPLUS syllabus includes some 76 poems and videos. Below are some relatively new videos. A sampling of ModPoPLUS videos for week 3: watch discussion of “Portrait d’une Femme” filmed...
Over the years ModPo people have spent a good deal of time pondering how to read Rae Armantrout’s “The Way.” Almost everyone deems it to be the most difficult poem on the week 2...
During our week 2 webcast for ModPo 2018 we had an opportunity to discuss—once again!—Cid Corman’s “It isnt for want.” After a bit we turned to how the poem might be taught. Is this...
During our week 2 webcast for ModPo 2018, we discussed John Phillips’s poem “This,” new to the ModPoPLUS syllabus:
Week 3 of ModPo 2018 begins! We hope you enjoy the intense, terse imagist poems we offer through the syllabus. I’ll have more to say about these early modernist poems tomorrow. Meantime, be sure...
When you are deciding which ModPo essay to review, go to the subforum designated for the particular assignment. Then scroll through all the essays that have been posted there. To the right of each...
We have just now added to week 2 of the ModPoPLUS syllabus Francisco X. Alarcón’s poem “From the Other Side of Night.” The text of the poem can be found HERE. The video in...
Michael Rothenberg, a poet and friend of ModPo, is a founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, an organization that seeks to promote a healthy and sustainable society through poetry and the arts. From...
Greetings on this Friday of week 2 of ModPo 2018! Today I suggest that you read or re-read a few more week 2 poems, and prepare yourself to move on to week 3, which begins on...
Today we recorded a new two-part video discussion of Hugh MacDiarmid’s modernist epic poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, which was written in “braid Scots verse.” We were joined by Scottish poet Christie...