New video: on teaching Cid Corman’s “It isnt for want”
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...
Author: Al Filreis
New video on John Phillips’ “This”
During our week 2 webcast for ModPo 2018, we discussed John Phillips’s poem “This,” new to the ModPoPLUS syllabus:
Week 3 begins — time to review others’ essays
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...
Which essays should you review first?
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...
New ModPoPLUS video on Francisco X. Alarcón’s “From the Other Side of Night”
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...
ModPo co-sponsors a project: read a poem to a child
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...
End of week 2 update (glance ahead at week 3)
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...
Coming soon: new ModPoPLUS video on Hugh MacDiarmid
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...
Webcast photos (week 2, 2018 — September 20)
Today we convened our second webcast of ModPo ’18. Here are some photos of this wonderful gathering in the garden of the Kelly Writers House.
ModPo week 2 webcast (Thurs. Sept 20th at noon)
It’s webcast day here at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. You really should try to make plans to watch (and participate in) today’s second weekly ModPo webcast of 2018. We start at exactly...