Danny Snelson and Al Filreis met to discuss two book-length poems or prose poems—Craig Dworkin’s The Pine-Woods Notebook and Frances Ponge’s World War II-era The Pine Woods Notebook. Obviously there is a connection and...
Stephen Ratcliffe wrote a 1,000-section poem in which each section describes the weather, the way the waves in a particular Pacific Ocean channel looks at sounds, and follows other constraints — making for a...
Yesterday we posted episode 71 of our ModPoMinute YouTube series. This episode features a discussion of Craig Dworkin’s “The Pine Woods Notebook” with Danny Snelson:
Tracie Morris was our special guest at the Kelly Writers House this past week—leading an improvised workshop for Writers House people, joining us for the live week 10 webcast. Here are some photos of...
We now begin the final week of ModPo 2019’s “symposium mode.” Week 10 begins today. HERE are the poems and videos. The poets we discuss this week are testing the limits of our understanding...
Marcel Duchamp’s miscellaneous notes were included in the conceptualist anthology called Against Expression. HERE is a copy of the text. HERE is a video recording of a discussion about these notes with Marjorie Perloff, Danny...
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...
We are now adding a new video on Jen Scappettone‘s “The Republic of Exit 43″—a close-reading/close-looking discussion of one poem/page/collage from that book. This video and the poem are being added today to ModPoPLUS...
Yesterday a ModPo film crew met up with Erica Baum at Bureau gallery in the lower east side of Manhattan — to make a new ModPoPLUS video with her about her newest project. Bureau...
This week our live webcast will begin at 8 PM Philadelphia time on Wednesday, November 14. Please plan to join us! As you know—our last live webcast of the season will happen next Monday,...