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...
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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...
Info for watching/joining our live webcast (10/24/18 at 9 PM)
Tonight at 9 PM (Philadelphia time) we will host our week 7 webcast! Please plan to join us. The video stream will be available HERE. No need to wait until the webcast begins to post...
Three excerpts from Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”—new videos with Christie Williamson
We have now added Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 3. Or, to be more precise, we discuss three passages from that long poem. Joining...
ModPo update for Tuesday of week 7 (2018)
Here we are, Tuesday of week 7. We’re getting into a sampling of the poems of the New York School. Yesterday a group of us spent some time talking about Bernadette Mayer’s “Invasion of...
New poem & video: Bernadette Mayer’s “Chocolate Poetry Sonnet”
The ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 7 now includes Bernadette Mayer’s “Chocolate Poetry Sonnet.” Below are some links: read Mayer’s “Chocolate Poetry Sonnet”: LINK TO TEXT listen to Mayer perform “Chocolate Poetry Sonnet”: LINK TO...