ModPo 2019: week 8 begins!
Today we have begun week 8 of ModPo 2019. Weeks 8, 9, and 10, taken together, constitute our effort to present three approaches to the foundations of contemporary U.S. poetry. That’s why you will...
Category: Language poets
ModPo update: 1) weeks 7 & 8; 2) PennSound; 3) audio intro to LangPo; 4) O’Hara essay; 5) Kelly Writers House
Today is our final day working together to read and discuss the poems of the New York School—week 7. Week 8 begins tomorrow. Of course if you only had a chance to read a...
On loss and silence in Perelman’s “Chronic Meanings”
Jake Marmer & others talk about loss and silence in Bob Perelman’s poem “Chronic Meanings”:
New poem & video: Rae Armantrout’s “Speech Acts”
We have added a new poem & video to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 2 (Dickinsonians and Whitmanians). The poem is Rae Armantrout’s “Speech Acts.” During the poet’s visit to the Kelly Writers House...
New video (filmed in San Francisco): on Larry Eigner’s “corner / stop-sign”
We have now posted a new video to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 8. During a recent visit to San Francisco we gathered with Jake Marmer and Ariel Resnikoff at a tavern in the...
A sampling of our Language poets’ poems (week 8)
Here are some fascinating options for starting into our week 8 syllabus: Lyn Hejinian writes a prose-poem autobiography, following her life year by year—but her sentences are not in chronological order, nor are they of...
Week 8 begins!
Welcome to week 8, our brief encounter with the Language poets. The final three weeks of ModPo constitute what we call “chapter 9.” First chapter 9.1, week 8, is indeed about the Language poets....
Webcast clip: on Rae Armantrout’s “The Way” (September 2018)
Here is a clip from our September 2018 week 2 webcast.
Rae Armantrout & Angela Carr visit on October 17, 2018
Next Wednesday—October 17—there will be not one but two events held at the Kelly Writers House here in Philadelphia that we hope will be of interest to all ModPo people. 1) At noon, we...