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...
Category: Canadian poetry
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...
Jason Camlot’s “31 Awakenings” (added to our Canadian sampler)
To the week 10 syllabus of ModPoPLUS we are now adding a poem by Jason Camlot called “31 Awakenings.” And of course a video recording of a discussion about that poem. The discussion features...
Laura Broadbent’s “A Meditation on Translation” added to week 10 of ModPoPLUS
Discussion of Laura Broadbent’s “A Meditation on Translation” from “In on the Great Joke”—filmed with Deanna Fong at Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore in Montreal. Here’s your link to the video: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/app/public/watch.php?file_id=224331 This has been...
Discussion of Phyllis Webb’s poem “Poetry” (with Deanna Fong, at Drawn & Quarterly bookstore)
Discussion of Phyllis Webb’s poem “Poetry” with Deanna Fong and @annapstrong at Drawn & Quarterly bookstore: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/app/public/watch.php?file_id=224332 New video added to the sampler of Canadian poetry in week 10 of ModPoPLUS.
Erín Moure poem, “The Notification of Birches” (new video)
Also at Mont-Royal & again with Michael Nardone, we talk about an early poem by Erín Moure—”The Notification of Birches.” Here’s the new ModPo video: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/CF5kH Here is our week 10 “Canadian sampler” as...
New poem & video: Andrew Whiteman (in Montreal) talks with us about Victor Coleman’s “Earth Day”
During the ModPo team’s visit to Montreal in October 2018, we met up with songwriter/musician Andrew Whiteman—a long-time supporter of Canadian avant-garde poetry and a long-time ModPo’er—to talk about one of his favorite Canadian...
