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...
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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:
recommendations for those new to Gertrude Stein
During our Stein week webcast in 2019, we took a few minutes to offer recommendations to those new to reading Gertrude Stein:
Rosemarie Waldrop’s “Cornell Boxes” series
We’ve now added a discussion of Rosmarie Waldrop’s “Cornell Boxes” series — one poem in that series, “Jack in the Box” — to week 10 of ModPoPLUS. The discussion was filmed “on location” in...
Doug Kearney in ModPo
ModPo people might recall that Doug Kearney visited us back in November 2019 and joined us for the Beat week webcast. We edited several clips from the full recording of the webcast, and have...
Charles Bernstein’s “There’s a Hole in My Pocket”
To ModPoPLUS week 8—on the Language poets—we have added a new Charles Bernstein poem to the Bernstein section. It’s called “There’s a Hole in My Pocket” and it was included in the recent collected...
two poems by Daphne Marlatt, along with videos, now added
See below for a list of and links to poems by Daphne Marlatt and videos accompanying them. These have been added to the week 10 syllabus of ModPoPLUS. If you watch the videos, even...
Jerome Rothenberg’s “A Poem of Fears”
Jerry Rothenberg performed this little-known poem, “A Poem of Fears,” and then we discussed it with them. This has been added to Rothenberg’s section of the week 6 ModPoPLUS syllabus: 20.3 read Rothenberg’s “A...
Jerome Rothenberg on Stein’s “A Shawl”
When Jerome last visited the Writers House, we sat down with him to talk about Gertrude Stein’s “A Shawl.” We’ve now added that video to ModPoPLUS week 4 among the Gertrude Stein resources. Here...