Patti Smith performed an improvised poem live at Gerde’s Folk City, in Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue, October 23, 1975. Patti wrote about the performance on her substack, May 13, 2021: “I was living...
Our discussion of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Baseball Canto” is now available on YouTube. This was originally posted to the ModPo syllabus as an audio-only item. But thanks to Paul Burke we are now presenting it...
We have now added a new video to ModPoPLUS for week 6. This is a discussion of the connotations of the word “got” in Jayne Cortez’s poem-performance piece “She Got He Got.” This is...
ModPo short—a 1-minute excerpt from a longer conversation filmed in a San Francisco park a few years ago in which Jake Marmer & Lily Applebaum talk about a poem titled “Poem” by ruth weiss. The clip...
A 1-minute clip from an October 19, 2016, live webcast:
From an October 17, 2018, live webcast, featuring poet-critic Angela Carr.
Thanks to the talented editing of Makena Deveraux, we are now making available an abridged, 20-minute version of our discussion of Helen Adam’s “Cheerless Junkie’s Song.” See below for the revised list and links...
ModPo people might recall that Doug Kearney visited us back in November 2019 and joined us for the Beat week webcast. We edited several clips from the full recording of the webcast, and have...
Jerry Rothenberg performed this little-known poem, “A Poem of Fears,” and then we discussed it with them. This has been added to Rothenberg’s section of the week 6 ModPoPLUS syllabus: 20.3 read Rothenberg’s “A...
Nanao Sakaki’s poem “Small People” — and a video accompanying the poem — have been added to week 6 of the ModPoPLUS syllabus. The video features Davy Knittle and Wai Chee Dimock, recorded in...