1-minute video on Susan Howe’s “The Midnight”
This is a 1-minute excerpt from our conversation about Susan Howe’s “The Midnight” as we stood in front of the Houghton Library at Harvard two early springs ago. This video is part of our...
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Further discussion of Fred Wah’s “Between You and Me…”
We have now added to ModPoPLUS week 8 an 8-minute video clip in which the ModPo team discusses Fred Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I” during a November 2020 live webcast....
1-minute video on “Poem” by ruth weiss filmed on location
ModPo short—a 1-minute excerpt from a longer conversation filmed in a San Francisco park a few years ago in which Jake Marmer & Lily Applebaum talk about a poem titled “Poem” by ruth weiss. The clip...
John Cage’s conception of beauty — a new 4-minute video
We have now added to ModPoPLUS week 9 a 4-minute video in which we discuss John Cage’s conception of beauty.
1-minute video about Rosa Alcalá’s “Undocumentaries”
David Colón and Al Filreis recorded a discussion about Rosa Alcalá’s Undocumentaries — 24 minutes in all. Here now is a 1-minute excerpt from that discussion, which can be found in ModPoPLUS week 3:
1-minute excerpt from longer discussion of Bernstein’s “There’s a Hole in My Pocket”
In ModPoPLUS week 8 there’s a 17-minute video of a discussion with Tonya Foster, Tracie Morris, and erica kaufman on Charles Bernstein’s poem “There’s a Hole in My Pocket.” Now we have made available...
Erica Hunt added to ModPoPLUS week 8
Erica Hunt, who is often associated with the Language poets, has been added to week 8 of ModPoPLUS. Her poem “the voice of no” has long been part of the week 5 syllabus of...
A Gertrude Stein primer—ModPo videos for those who want to understand Stein
Over the years we at ModPo have assembled a number of short videos that will help you introduce yourself to the (supposed) “difficulty” of Gertrude Stein. These are available in the first section of...
introducing: “ModPo shorts”!
We have begun to edit a series of 1-minute videos under the rubric “ModPo shorts.” Our goal here is to draw in folks who don’t know about ModPo, who don’t feel they have time...
Daphne Marlatt, Vancouver-based poet, in ModPoPLUS
Daphne Marlatt is a Vancouver-based poet. ModPoPLUS week 10 features a “Canadian sampler.” Here are the Daphne Marlatt resources there: 17.24 read Daphne Marlatt‘s “Generation, Generations at the Mouth”: LINK TO TEXT 17.25 watch discussion with...
