Rae Armantrout & Angela Carr visit on October 17, 2018
Next Wednesday—October 17—there will be not one but two events held at the Kelly Writers House here in Philadelphia that we hope will be of interest to all ModPo people. 1) At noon, we...
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ModPo update for Tuesday of week 5
Please plan to join us for our week 5 webcast tomorrow (Wednesday, October 10) at 5 PM Philadelphia time. Tomorrow morning I will send the usual guidelines and will describe options for participating. Meantime,...
ModPo update for Monday of week 5
Welcome, truly, to ModPo 2018 week 5! Below I’ve copied one of the four headnotes to the main week 5 syllabus—on “chapter 4” (the second of week 5’s four parts), the Harlem Renaissance. And...
ModPo featured in Italian magazine article
Annamaria Gradara has published an article about ModPo in an Italian magazine. The piece is in part based on an interview with Massimo Soranzio, a long-term ModPo’er. HERE is a link to the article.
Chicago meet-up
Matt Corey reports from Chicago on the recent ModPo meet-up convened there: “Photos from our Chicago meetup today, a more formal one – that’s left to right Marc (who goes by Dr. Marc A...
Filming on bpNichol & Victor Coleman with Andrew Whiteman
Yesterday, at a park in “The Plateau” neighborhood of Montreal, we filmed two ModPoPLUS videos, and one ModPoMinute, with Andrew Whiteman (the lead guitarist and lyricist for the band “Broken Social Scene”), who is...
Montreal webcast 10/4/2018: photographs
The ModPo team here in Montreal—and our colleagues everywhere—really enjoyed hosting our week 4 (Stein et alia) webcast from Concordia University. Here are some photos taken during the session:
Webcast 10/4/18 coming to you from Montreal
Greetings from Montreal! WEBCAST! Today at 6:30 PM Montreal time (same as Philadelphia time) we will be convening our week 4 live webcast. Please plan to join us live if you possibly can. If...
ModPo update, October 2 (Tuesday of week 4): on essay #2; on Stein; on Montreal webcast
This week many of us are writing 500-word essays in response to essay assignment #2. The poem we ask you to read and closely analyze is by H.D. Be sure to post your essay this week if...
How *ever* will you be able to appreciate Gertrude Stein?
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...