And so today we begin week 4. If you have never encountered the (supposedly) difficult and (apparently) opaque poetry of Stein, you are in for a treat. A challenge, surely, but also a treat! Be...
Tomorrow (Sunday, September 30th) week 4 of ModPo 2018 begins. Perhaps today is a good day for reading a few more week 3 poem (perhaps THIS ONE), viewing a few more videos (such as THIS ONE), and commenting in some...
Three ModPo things today: 1) WEBCAST. Tomorrow (Wednesday, September 26) at 10 AM Philadelphia time we will be convening our week 3 live webcast. Please plan to join us live if you possibly can....
ModPoPLUS keeps expanding. Week 3’s ModPoPLUS syllabus includes some 76 poems and videos. Below are some relatively new videos. A sampling of ModPoPLUS videos for week 3: watch discussion of “Portrait d’une Femme” filmed...
Over the years ModPo people have spent a good deal of time pondering how to read Rae Armantrout’s “The Way.” Almost everyone deems it to be the most difficult poem on the week 2...
During our week 2 webcast for ModPo 2018 we had an opportunity to discuss—once again!—Cid Corman’s “It isnt for want.” After a bit we turned to how the poem might be taught. Is this...
During our week 2 webcast for ModPo 2018, we discussed John Phillips’s poem “This,” new to the ModPoPLUS syllabus:
Week 3 of ModPo 2018 begins! We hope you enjoy the intense, terse imagist poems we offer through the syllabus. I’ll have more to say about these early modernist poems tomorrow. Meantime, be sure...
When you are deciding which ModPo essay to review, go to the subforum designated for the particular assignment. Then scroll through all the essays that have been posted there. To the right of each...
We have just now added to week 2 of the ModPoPLUS syllabus Francisco X. Alarcón’s poem “From the Other Side of Night.” The text of the poem can be found HERE. The video in...