Stein collage created by ModPo’er
Joan Danforth, experienced ModPo’er, has created a Stein collage, and mailed it to us. We will keep it and show it to any ModPo person who comes by the Kelly Writers House for a...
Author: Al Filreis
ModPo update for Monday of week 5
Welcome, truly, to ModPo 2018 week 5! Below I’ve copied one of the four headnotes to the main week 5 syllabus—on “chapter 4” (the second of week 5’s four parts), the Harlem Renaissance. And...
ModPo featured in Italian magazine article
Annamaria Gradara has published an article about ModPo in an Italian magazine. The piece is in part based on an interview with Massimo Soranzio, a long-term ModPo’er. HERE is a link to the article.
Montreal meet-up
Last night (10-6-2018) a small group of ModPo’ers met in Montreal to do two collaborative close readings—which we recorded and will add to ModPoPLUS. We discussed a poem by Dickinson and Fred Wah’s poem...
Chicago meet-up
Matt Corey reports from Chicago on the recent ModPo meet-up convened there: “Photos from our Chicago meetup today, a more formal one – that’s left to right Marc (who goes by Dr. Marc A...
Filming on bpNichol & Victor Coleman with Andrew Whiteman
Yesterday, at a park in “The Plateau” neighborhood of Montreal, we filmed two ModPoPLUS videos, and one ModPoMinute, with Andrew Whiteman (the lead guitarist and lyricist for the band “Broken Social Scene”), who is...
Montreal webcast 10/4/2018: photographs
The ModPo team here in Montreal—and our colleagues everywhere—really enjoyed hosting our week 4 (Stein et alia) webcast from Concordia University. Here are some photos taken during the session:
Webcast 10/4/18 coming to you from Montreal
Greetings from Montreal! WEBCAST! Today at 6:30 PM Montreal time (same as Philadelphia time) we will be convening our week 4 live webcast. Please plan to join us live if you possibly can. If...
ModPo update, October 2 (Tuesday of week 4): on essay #2; on Stein; on Montreal webcast
This week many of us are writing 500-word essays in response to essay assignment #2. The poem we ask you to read and closely analyze is by H.D. Be sure to post your essay this week if...
New York meet-up
Mandana Chaffa, who convenes and moderates ModPo meet-ups in New York City, wrote this about the meet-up this past weekend: “The stellar NYC autumn day—as rare a sighting as an on-time subway—was outmatched, as...