On the pleasures & disappointments of making a mesostic
On the pleasures & disappointments of making your own aleatory (chance-based) poetry—a video clip from our week 9 webcast in 2018. Josh Schuster joined us for this webcast.
Category: aleatory poetry
“The poem is a tiny utopian space”—Josh Schuster
Here is a video clip from our week 9 (November 7, 2018) live webcast—in which guest poet/teacher Joshua Schuster (one of the founders of the Writers House in 1995-96) discusses the classroom and the...
Further discussion of “demilitarizing” & defamiliarizing language (video)
Here is a further discussion of (Cage’s idea of) defamiliarizing and defamiliarizing language—a video clip from our November 7, 2018 week 9 live webcast:
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).
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...