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.
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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...
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”...