Two passages from Sarah Dowling’s “Entering Sappho”
We discuss these two passages from Sarah Dowling’s Entering Sappho: “Clip”: LINK “White Columns”: LINK
Category: conceptualism
Laynie Browne performs four poems from “Daily Sonnets”
Listen to Laynie Browne perform four poems from her book Daily Sonnets: “6/14 Donne Sonnet,” “Two-Fourteenths Sonnet,” “In Chinese astrology you are a snake,” “I’m a bunny in a human suit”: “6/14ths Donne sonnet”:...
Caroline Bergvall at the Writers House – March 28/29, 2022
Poet, performance artist, sound artist Caroline Bergvall is traveling from London to be with us on March 28 and 29th. Please plan to join us! Caroline is our second Kelly Writers House Fellow of...
Artist Jen Wroblewski attempts to make drawing a kind of writing (minus signifying)
Here’s a recording of a 2/1/22 event at Kelly Writers House featuring Etty Yaniv interviewing Jennifer Wroblewski about Jen’s new series of drawings, “Late for Revision.” Jen spent a year making graphite drawings that...
Derek Beaulieu in ModPo
DEREK BEAULIEU IN ModPo watch Derek Beaulieu talk about one of his concrete poems: LINK TO VIDEO watch Derek Beaulieu talk about a bpNichol short story: LINK TO VIDEO watch Derek Beaulieu talk about...
Caroline Bergvall on shifting the imagination of English (and other topics)
For ModPo people who admire the work of Caroline Bergvall in week 10 of our course: We at PennSound have now segmented (by topic discussed and poem performed) Caroline Bergvall’s appearance on Leonard Schwartz’s...
Poem about Walt Whitman constructed only with three-letter airport codes
The ModPo team talks for five minutes about the poem Nasser Hussain wrote, using only three-letter airport codes, in response to Walt Whitman—during a 2020 live ModPo webcast.
On erasure as a technique in Jordan Abel’s “A Place of Scraps”
Fairly new to ModPo’s week 10 syllabus: an excerpt from Jordan Abel’s A Place of Scraps. We have now added to ModPoPLUS for week 10 a 20-minute discussion in which we talk about erasure...
Jennifer Scappettone’s writing through “The Pledge of Allegiance” in “Delection Even”
Max McKenna convened a group of Chicago-land ModPo people to discuss Jennifer Scappettone’s “Delection Even.” The links now added to week 10 of ModPoPLUS include the text of the poem, a recording of the...
Rosemarie Waldrop’s “Cornell Boxes” series
We’ve now added a discussion of Rosmarie Waldrop’s “Cornell Boxes” series — one poem in that series, “Jack in the Box” — to week 10 of ModPoPLUS. The discussion was filmed “on location” in...