On the pleasures & disappointments of making your own mesostic poem (video; 6 minutes)
Here is a video clip from the week 9 live webcast (November 7, 2018).
Category: aleatory poetry
Celina uses mesostic to write through her own essay about an encounter in Cuba
Celina found a wonderful prompt for her mesostic re-writing. Below is her explanation & here is where you can find her mesostic poem: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/discussions/all/threads/whmWHOUkEeim-Ap6C5Wgvg
Remove “a”-words from a communist poem (per B. Mayer)
If you go back to week 5 (chapter 3—on communist poets) and find Genevieve Taggard’s “Interior,” and then remove all the words beginning with “a” (per one of the Bernadette Mayer experiments), this is...
ModPo update for Friday of week 9
If it’s your intention to post a response to assignment #4 (create a mesostic or do one of Bernadette’s writing experiments), I would strongly urge you to create it and post it HERE before Sunday if possible. We will all begin...
Al’s thoughts on the challenge of aleatory poetry
Oh, oh, the range of responses to the week 9 poems! I love it. On one hand, we have the “Hmmm, I don’t quite get it” thread. On the other hand, we have the “OMG I’m...
Week 9 podcast recording
If you didn’t catch our webcast live earlier tonight, please watch the recording HERE. The video hasn’t been edited yet, so for now you will want to skip forward to 13:20 in order to see...
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...
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...