Al on why week 3 of ModPo is so much fun
Week 3 of ModPo is a favorite! Reading and discussion H.D.’s “Sea Rose” gives us a chance to try out our ideas about what a modern approach to the oldest poetic symbol for love...
Category: imagists
Visit to the Rosenbach Museum & Library to discuss Marianne Moore
We visited the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia to meet with curators of the extensive archive there of Marianne Moore’s papers and belongings. Archivist Elizabeth Fuller showed us manuscript versions of Moore’s famous...
Lytle Shaw’s rewriting of Stevens’s “The Snow Man”
We have added Lytle Shaw’s “The Confessions 2″—a poem that responds to Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man”—to the Wallace Stevens section of the week 3 (rise of modernism: imagism) syllabus in ModPoPLUS. See the...
Japanese imagism in ModPo
Here are some links you will find in ModPoPLUS for week 3 pertaining to Japanese poets’ response to the rise of modernism in the U.S. (and to imagism in particular): PART TEN: MICHIYO NAKAMOTO...
ModPo update for Sat. Sept. 29, 2018
Tomorrow (Sunday, September 30th) week 4 of ModPo 2018 begins. Perhaps today is a good day for reading a few more week 3 poem (perhaps THIS ONE), viewing a few more videos (such as THIS ONE), and commenting in some...
Week 3 begins — time to review others’ essays
Week 3 of ModPo 2018 begins! We hope you enjoy the intense, terse imagist poems we offer through the syllabus. I’ll have more to say about these early modernist poems tomorrow. Meantime, be sure...
End of week 2 update (glance ahead at week 3)
Greetings on this Friday of week 2 of ModPo 2018! Today I suggest that you read or re-read a few more week 2 poems, and prepare yourself to move on to week 3, which begins on...
Revised & enlarged headnote to week 3 of ModPoPLUS
Getting ready for week 3 of ModPo, Al has revised and expanded the headnote to the week 3 syllabus in ModPoPLUS: In the first part of week 3—on the rise of modernism in the...