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...
Category: ModPoPLUS
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...
Wallace Stevens in ModPoPLUS
Over the years the collection of Wallace Stevens poems, audio and video in the ModPoPLUS syllabus has become quite an extensive array. Here is a list, with links, of all these materials: 8.1 read...
new abridged version of discussion of Tracie Morris’s “Slave Sho to Video”
Thanks to the editing talents of Makena Deveraux, we are now making available a 24-minute abridgment of the original 40-minute discussion of Tracie Morris’s “Slave Show to Video aka Black but Beautiful.” It is...
Rutherford NJ resident inspired Williams’s wheelbarrow/chickens poem
We have added to ModPoPLUS part 1 a link to a newspaper article describing testimony of a Rutherford NJ resident who seems to have inspired William Carlos Williams’s legendary modernist poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow”...
Jennifer Scappettone’s writing through “The Pledge of Allegiance” in “Delection Even”
Max McKenna convened a group of Chicago-land ModPo people to discuss Jennifer Scappettone’s “Delection Even.” The links now added to week 10 of ModPoPLUS include the text of the poem, a recording of the...
video: on the ongoing influence of Whitman
An excerpt from our week 2 2019 live webcast—a discussion of the ongoing influence of Whitman:
Kate Colby’s poem “Homing” & our discussion of it with her
During our week 2 live webcast 2019 we were joined by poet Kate Colby. She read her poem “Homing” (from The Arrangements) and then we discussed it. The poem and video have been added...
video: what we mean when we call a poem “Dickinsonian”
3-minute video on what we mean when we call a poem “Dickinsonian”:
On Gertrude Stein & honesty in just 47 seconds
Here are the ModPo TAs discussing Stein and honesty—during our 2019 week 4 live webcast:
