Hoa Nguyen, “Long Light”
LONG LIGHT Long light Super Bowl Sunday 2006“Do” to escape from the presentlying on a recycled-plastic outdoor-carpetnear profuse clover and the water meter In the dream Heathermarries a heart surgeon in heaven We need...
Category: Canadian poetry
Fred Wah, “Selves”
Here is a LINK to the text of Fred Wah’s poem “Selves.” And here are some OTHER MATERIALS pertaining to this poem.
Further discussion of Fred Wah’s “Between You and Me…”
We have now added to ModPoPLUS week 8 an 8-minute video clip in which the ModPo team discusses Fred Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I” during a November 2020 live webcast....
1-minute “ModPo Short”: on a Fred Wah poem
1-minute clip from the longer video made in Vancouver about Fred Wah’s great poem “Between You and Me There Is an I”:
Filreis leads a “Listening Practice” workshop on February 17, 2021
On Wednesday (Feb 17) Al Filreis will be leading a “Listening Practice” workshop for SpokenWeb, the Canada-based consortium of digital audio archiving. https://spokenweb.ca/events/virtual-listening-practice-guided-by-al-filreis/ [<–click to register]
On Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I”
In ModPoPLUS for week 8, we include a poem by Fred Wah called “Between You and Me There Is an I.” During our ModPo 2020 week 8 webcast, we discussed this poem, and here...
Daphne Marlatt, Vancouver-based poet, in ModPoPLUS
Daphne Marlatt is a Vancouver-based poet. ModPoPLUS week 10 features a “Canadian sampler.” Here are the Daphne Marlatt resources there: 17.24 read Daphne Marlatt‘s “Generation, Generations at the Mouth”: LINK TO TEXT 17.25 watch discussion with...
Video: on Fred Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I” (filmed in Vancouver)
Stephen Collis and Karis Shearer joined Al Filreis to talk about Fred Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I” — at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The video recording of...
two poems by Daphne Marlatt, along with videos, now added
See below for a list of and links to poems by Daphne Marlatt and videos accompanying them. These have been added to the week 10 syllabus of ModPoPLUS. If you watch the videos, even...
Roy Miki’s “I Hear You”
In Seattle in January 2020 Al met up with Larissa Lai — and the recording a close reading of Roy Miki’s poem “I Hear You.” The poem and the video have been added to...