We have now added a new Wallace Stevens poem to the ModPoPLUS week 3 syllabus. It’s “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch.” We have the text. We have a recording of Stevens’s reading the poem...
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...
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....
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...
We have now added to ModPoPLUS week 9 a 4-minute video in which we discuss John Cage’s conception of beauty.
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:
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, 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...
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...
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...
NOTE: All times given are Eastern U.S. Time. Click HERE to watch any webcast live.
1) Wed 9/8/21, noon (wk 1)
2) Wed 9/15/21, 9:30 AM (wk 2)
3) Wed 9/22/21, 8 PM (wk 3)
4) Wed 9/29/21, 3 PM (wk 4) [Kate Colby visits]
5) Wed. 10/6/21, noon (wk 5)
6) Wed 10/13/21, 6 PM (wk 6)
7) Wed 10/20/21, 3 PM (wk 7) [with Edwin Torres]
8) Wed 10/27/21, 10 AM (wk 8)
9) Wed 11/3/21, 3 PM (wk 9)
10) Wed 11/10/21, NOON (wk 10) [“erica kaufman DAY”] [with Jack Gieseking]
11) Mon 11/15/21, NOON (“final words”)
[] Click HERE to watch recordings of all the ModPo 2020 webcasts.
Yes, you can take ModPo for University of Pennsylvania credit. Three 10-week sessions are offered each year: fall, spring, summer. This version of ModPo is taught by famed ModPo TA Anna Strong Safford and co-created with ModPo founder Al Filreis. Click HERE for all the info you need. Contact Anna with questions at modpo@writing.upenn.edu.
ModPo has created a Teacher Resource Center (“TRC“) for teachers who use ModPo poems & videos in their classrooms. Click HERE to read teaching guides and watch videos in which teachers talk about teaching with ModPo. If you wish to be added to our teachers mailing list, write us at modpo@writing.upenn.edu. Click HERE to discuss ModPo poems with other teachers.
