On Robin Blaser’s “A Bird in the House”
Some time ago we recorded an episode of PoemTalk about a poem by Robin Blaser, “A Bird in the House.” Then we found ourselves in San Francisco, meeting up with ModPo people, and decided...
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New video: on Mayer’s “The Incorporation of Sophia’s Cereal”
We’ve long admired how Bernadette Mayer incorporates things, scenes, people, occasions from her daily life in her poems. This is at the heart of the New York School style, of course. Then there’s the...
New poem & video: Dickinson’s “From Blank to Blank—”
Just today we added a new poem and new video to week 1! The poem is Dickinson’s “From Blank to Blank—,” which you can read HERE. And HERE is the video, which is an...
Philip Metres’s “The Blues of Ken Davis” now added to ModPoPLUS week 5
Just now added to ModPoPLUS week 5, chapter 4—Philip Metres‘s poem “The Ballad of Ken Davis.” The text is here below and the video is here: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/app/public/watch.php?file_id=225683
Marjorie Perloff on William Carlos Williams’s “Spring and All”
During a visit to Los Angeles in January 2019, Al and Anna stopped by to see the eminent critic Marjorie Perloff at her home. We recorded a conversation about a several-pages-long passage from WCW’s Spring...
ModPoPLUS video on Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Chicago Picasso”
We have added Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “The Chicago Picasso” to week 5 of ModPoPLUS. Here is a link to the text of the poem. Here is a link to the video inside the ModPo...
Message to ModPo people ModPo 2019 begins
Yes, ModPo 2019 begins on Saturday (September 7). The discussion forums are open now, of course, but on Saturday we will really get going again. I will write again soon to give you some...
Rae Armantrout describes her encounter with “Howl”
Watch a discussion—excerpted from a fall 2018 webcast—in which Rae Armantrout describes her encounter with Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”:
Discussion of Cage’s idea that poetry can demilitarize language
Further discussion of John Cage’s idea that poetry can demilitarize language:
On poetry as yoga (Jason Zuzga)
Watch this 4-minute clip from a 2018 webcast in which Jason Zuzga talks about poetry as yoga: