Update during our final weekend of ModPo 2018
ModPo 2018 ends on Monday with our annual Final Words webcast, as I’ve noted previously. But really what’s ending is what we call our “symposium mode,” our annual run through the ten weeks of...
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ModPo update for Monday of week 10 (including info about “final words”)
This week our live webcast will begin at 8 PM Philadelphia time on Wednesday, November 14. Please plan to join us! As you know—our last live webcast of the season will happen next Monday,...
Al’s update at the start of week 10 (2018)
Week 10! Yes, today we begin week 10. It’s our final week of the so-called “symposium mode” of ModPo. Each (northern hemisphere) autumn, from September to late-mid-November, we move through the ten weeks of...
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...
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...
ModPo week 9 starts now
Please ponder these questions: Can you imagine a poem whose meaning is not intended? What if a poet, experimenting with the idea of the speaking self, decided to create a compositional process that in...
ModPo update for Thursday of week 8, 2018
Got ten minutes tonight? Terrific! Please click HERE and review some essays! Below, in particular, are six essays on Eileen Myles’s “The Honey Bear” that could use a few more reviews/responses. Please click on at least...
A sampling of our Language poets’ poems (week 8)
Here are some fascinating options for starting into our week 8 syllabus: Lyn Hejinian writes a prose-poem autobiography, following her life year by year—but her sentences are not in chronological order, nor are they of...
Week 8 begins!
Welcome to week 8, our brief encounter with the Language poets. The final three weeks of ModPo constitute what we call “chapter 9.” First chapter 9.1, week 8, is indeed about the Language poets....
ModPo update for Friday of week 7
Today I’ve been watching all the new #3 essays coming in—posted to the special subforum we’ve set up for them. If you intend to write and post an essay on Eileen Myles’s “The Honey...