Al Filreis discusses Cid Corman’s “It isnt for want” as part of a commencement address
Al gave this talk at the graduation ceremonies of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2020:
Al gave this talk at the graduation ceremonies of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2020:
Lorine Niedecker wrote poems on the pages of her daily calendar. Very Dickinsonian in its use of quotidian domestic bits and pieces as writing resources. We discussed one of these poem-entries in detail when...
During our visit to Vancouver, we met up with Jenny Penberthy and Karis Shearer at the University of British Columbia and recorded this discussion of Lorine Niedecker’s poem “Linnaeus in Lapland”: 4.19 read Lorine...
During our week 2 live webcast 2019 we were joined by poet Kate Colby. She read her poem “Homing” (from The Arrangements) and then we discussed it. The poem and video have been added...
3-minute video on what we mean when we call a poem “Dickinsonian”:
An amazing poem: Niedecker’s “My Life by Water.” We were in Seattle in January 2020 and gathered with poets (among them Rae Armantrout and Bob Perelman) and ModPo citizens in the area and talked...
When in Seattle in January 2020, the ModPo team met up with various ModPo people, friends, and poets — including Rae Armantrout and Bob Perelman — and recorded a collaborative close reading of a...
Cristanne Miller and Davy Knittle talk with Al Filreis about a poem now added to ModPoPLUS—Dickinson’s “He fumbles at your Soul.” PART NINETEEN: HE FUMBLES AT YOUR SOUL 19.1 read Dickinson’s “He fumbles at...
We went to The Houghton Library at Harvard University to record a discussion of an except from Susan Howe’s The Midnight. Here is the updated entry for Susan Howe’s work in ModPoPLUS, including the new...
In the current issue of the Friends of Lorine Niedecker Newsletter (issue #31, Winter 2020), Max McKenna has published a short essay on encountering Niedecker in ModPo. Here is the link to the online...