Erica Hunt, “Reader we were meant to meet”
Here is the text of a meta-pedagogical poem we often discuss in ModPo. It is available as part of the ModPoPLUS syllabus.
Category: metapoetry
Wallace Stevens, “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”
This poem is being discussed HERE. Whether you are reading this as it is posted, or soon after–or much later—we urge you to click HERE and add your thoughts. The text of the poem...
a meta-poetic reading of Frost
During our October 2019 visit to Boston, where our weekly webcast was hosted at MIT, Anna Strong Safford led us in a meta-poetic reading of Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/VTAeP .
Discussion of Phyllis Webb’s poem “Poetry” (with Deanna Fong, at Drawn & Quarterly bookstore)
Discussion of Phyllis Webb’s poem “Poetry” with Deanna Fong and @annapstrong at Drawn & Quarterly bookstore: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/app/public/watch.php?file_id=224332 New video added to the sampler of Canadian poetry in week 10 of ModPoPLUS.
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...
Poem by a ModPo’er poet
In the ModPo forums ModPo’er Lauren Elle DeGaine told us of her chapbook, “The Landscape We Left on Each Other.” Just now I read these poems with pleasure. Here is one that is especially intriguing (and...